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English: Title: Bulletin

Identifier: bulletin3011907smit Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Subjects: Ethnology Publisher: Washington : G. P. O. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: 752 LA FLESCHE, SUSETTE LAG UNA [b. a. e. 1881, when Hon. S. J. Kirkwood, the chairman of that committee, became Secretary of the Interior, he called Mr La Flesche to Washington and gave him a position in the Othce of Indian Affairs, where he remains. In 1893 he was graduated from the National Uni- versity Law School. The memory of the triballife of his childhood stimulated him to study his people, for which his father's position gave him unusual advantage. His mastery of English has enabled him accurately to set forth the results of his ethnological investigations, in which he is still actively engaged. His published writings have appeared in the Journal of American Folk-loreandotherscientific pe- riodicals, in the "Study of Omaha Indian Music," by Alice C Fletcher (Peabody Museum Pub.), and in popular magazines. He is the author also of "The Middle Five, a book giving the story of his school days. Mr La Flesche has made ethno- logical collections for the University of Berlin, the University of California, the Peabody Museum of American Archae- ology and Ethnology, and other institu- tions of learning. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, and a member of the American Anthropological Association and of the Anthropological Society of Washington. In 1906 Mr La Flesche married Miss Rosa Bourassa, of Chip- pewa descent, (a. c. F.) La Flesche, Susette. See Briglit Eyes. Lagcay. A former Chumashan village near Santa Barbara, Cal. Laco.—Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 24, 1863. Lagcay.—Ibid. Lagrimas de San Pedro (Span.: ' tears of St Peter'). A former group of Alchedoma rancherias, on or near the Rio Colorado, in California, more than 50 m. below the mouth of Bill Williams fork. They were visited and so named by Fray Francisco Garces in 1776.—Garces, Diary, 427, 1900. Laguna (Span.: ' lagoon', on account of a large pond west of the pueblo; aborig- inal name Ka-waik', an old Kertsan word of unknown signification). A Ke- resan tribe whose principal pueblo, which bears the same popular name, is situated on the s. bank of San Jose r., Valencia CO., N. Mes., about 45 m. w. of Albu- querque. It was formerly the seat of a Spanish mission, dating from its estab- lishment as a pueblo in July, 1699, and having Acoma as a visita after 1782. The lands of the Lagunas consist of a Spanish grant of 125,225 acres, mostly of desert land. The Laguna people are composed of 19 clans, as follows, those marked with an asterisk being extinct: Kohaia (Bear), Ohshahch (Sun),Chopi (Badger), Tyami (Eagle), Skurshka (Water-snake), Sqowi (Rattlesnake), Tsushki (Coyote), Yaka (Corn; divided into Kochinish-yaka, or Yellow-corn, and Kukinish-yaka, or Red- corn), Sits (Water), Tsina (Turkey), Kak- han (Wolf), Hatsi (Earth)*, Mokaiqch (Mountain lion)*, Shawiti (Parrot), Shu- wimi (Turquoise), Shiaska (Chaparral- cock), Kurtsi (Antelope), Meyo (Lizard), Hapai (Oak). Most of the clans consti- tute phratral groups, as follows: (1) Bear, Badger, Coyote, and Wolf; (2) Mountain- lion'and Oak; (3) Water-snake, Rattle- snake, Lizard, and Earth; (4) Antelope and Water. According to Laguna tradi- tion, the Bear, Eagle, Water, Turkey, and Corn clans, together with some members of the Coyote clan, came originally from Acoma; the Badger, Parrot, Chaparral- cock, and Antelope clans, and some mem- bers of the Coyote clan, came from Zuni; the Sun people originated prol^ably in San Felipe; the Watei--snake in Sia; the

Text Appearing After Image: JOSE PAISANO—LAGUNA Rattlesnake probably in Oraibi; the Wolf and Turquoise in Sandia; the Earth clan in Jemez; the Mountain-lion and Oak people claim to have come from Mt Tay- lor; the Lizard clan is of unknown origin. Laguna therefore is not only the most recent of the New Mexican pueblos, but its inhabitants are of mixed origin, being composed of at least four linguisticstocks— Keresan, Tanoan, Shoshonean, and Zu- nian. It is said that formerly the people were divided into two social groups, or phratries, known as Kapaits and Kayo- maslio, but these are now practically po- litical parties, one progressive, the other conservative. Until 1871 the tribe occu- pied, except during the summer season, the single pueblo of Laguna, but this vil- lage is gradually becoming depopulated,

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