The Siouan tribes of the East Author:James Mooney Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MÔouney] THE MANAHOAC A -SIOUAN TRIBE. 23 he conversed with them through a Powhatan interpreter. The fact that the Mouacan and Manahoac were so closely allied... more », lived in the same fashion and in practically the same country, renders it probable that the linguistic difference was only dialectic. Byrd, a most competent authority, who knew the remnants of these tribes a century later, tells us positively that each was formerly a distinct nation, or rather a different canton of the same nation, speaking the same language and iiaving the same customs (Byrd, 4). Knowing the Saponi and Tutelo, whom he includes i this statement, to be Siouan, we are thus enabled upon his anthority to assign the Stegarake and the other Manahoac tribes to the same family. THE MONACAN CONFEDERACY, INCLUDING THE SAPONI AND TUTELO. Monacan Synonymy. Manacans.—Smith (1629), Virginia (reprint of 1819), vol. i, p. 136. Manachees.—Neill, Virginia Carolorum, 1886, p. 325. Manakan.—Document of 1701 in Virginia Historical Collections, new series, 1886, vol. v, p. 42. Manakins.—Stith (1747) quoted in note by Burk, Virginia, 1804, vol. i, p. 128. Manikin.—Document of 1700 in Va. Hist. Coll., op. cit., p. 48. Mannacans.—Strachey (about 1612), Virginia, 1849, p. 41. Mannachin.—Document of 1701 in Va. Hist. Coll., op. cit., p. 45. Mannakin.—Lawson (1714), History of Carolina, reprint of 1860, p. 187. Manskin.—Herrman map, 1670, in Report Comre. on Houndary between Virginia and Maryland, 1873 (misprint). Manycań.—Document of 1700 in Va. Hist. Coll., op. cit., p. 51. Monacans.—Smith, Virginia, op. cit., vol. i, p. 116. Monacans.—Beverley, Virginia, 1722, p. 245. Monachans.—Youg (1634), in Mass. Hist. Coll., 4th series, 1871, vol. ix, p. 112. Monakins.—Lederer, Discoveries, 1672, p. 9. Mon...« less