. Bulletin. Ethnology. 852 MEXAM MIAMI Ib. a. e. milian, Trav., 335, 1843. Mitutahankish.—Mat- thews, Ethnog. and Phijol. Hidatsa, 14, 1877. Mitutahankuc.— in Am. Natur., 829, Oct. 1882. Mexam. See 3friksah. Meyascosic. A village of the Powhatan confederacy, in 1608, on the n. side of James r., in Charles City co., Va.—Smith (1629), Va., I, map, repr. 1819. Meyemma. Mentioned by Gibbs (Schoolcraft, Tribes, in, 139, 1853) as a Hnpa village in Hupa valley, Cal., in 1851. Not identified. The name is per- haps of Yurok origin. Meyo. The Lizard clan of the pueblo of Laguna, N. Mex. Alt
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 852 MEXAM MIAMI Ib. a. e. milian, Trav., 335, 1843. Mitutahankish.—Mat- thews, Ethnog. and Phijol. Hidatsa, 14, 1877. Mitutahankuc.— in Am. Natur., 829, Oct. 1882. Mexam. See 3friksah. Meyascosic. A village of the Powhatan confederacy, in 1608, on the n. side of James r., in Charles City co., Va.—Smith (1629), Va., I, map, repr. 1819. Meyemma. Mentioned by Gibbs (Schoolcraft, Tribes, in, 139, 1853) as a Hnpa village in Hupa valley, Cal., in 1851. Not identified. The name is per- haps of Yurok origin. Meyo. The Lizard clan of the pueblo of Laguna, N. Mex. Although Laguna was not founded until 1699, the origin of the clan is unknown to the natives. It forms a phratry with the Skurshka (Water-snake), Sqowi (Kattlesnake),and Hatsi (Earth) clans, which came from Sia, Oraibi (probably), and Jemez, re- spectively, (f. w. H. ) Meyo-hano"!!,—Hodge in Am. Anthrop., IX, 351, 1896 (/k(ho'''!='people'). Mezquital (Span: 'inesquitegrove'). A former pueblo of the Tepehuane on the upper waters of Eio de San Pedro, s. Durango, Mexico, and the seat of a Span- ish mission. It is now a Mexican town. S. Francisco del Mezquital.—Orozco v Berra, Geog., 318, Mgezewa (for Me/gezi, 'bald eagle'). A gens of the Potawatomi, q. v. Megezi.—Wm. Jones, inf n, 1906. M'-ge-ze'-wa.— Morgan, Anc. Soc., 167, 1877. Miacomit. A village formerly on Nan- tucket id., off the s coast of Massachu- setts.—Writer of 1807 in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 2ds., Ill, 26,1846. Miahwahpitsiks ( Mi-ah-vKih'-pit-s1ks<, 'seldom lonesome'). A division of the Piegan tribe of the Siksika. Mi-ah-wah'-pit-siks. —Grinnell, Blackfoot Lodge Tales, 209, 1892. Seldom Lonesome.—Ibid., 225. Miakechakesa. One of the two divi- sions of the Sisseton Sioux. Their habitat in 1S24 was the region of Blue Earth and Cottonwood rs., Minn., ex- tending westward to the Coteau des Prairies. Unlike the Kahra, they had no fixed villages, no mud or bark cabins. They hunted on Blue E
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