. Bulletin. Ethnology. BILL. 30] SPITOTHA SPOONS AND LADLES 625 the Spirit Lake captive of 1857, was res- cued by Grayfootand Sounding Heavens, sons of Spirit Walker. (d. r.) Spitotha. One of the 5 original divisions or bands of the Shawnee (W. H. Shaw- nee in Gulf States Hist. Mag., i, 415,1903). Evidently distinct from Kispokotha, but probably the same as Mequachake, q. v. Spokan. A name applied to several small bodies of Salish on and near Spo- kane r., N. E. Wash. According to Gibbs the name was originally employed by the Skitswish to designate a band at the forks of the river, called also
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BILL. 30] SPITOTHA SPOONS AND LADLES 625 the Spirit Lake captive of 1857, was res- cued by Grayfootand Sounding Heavens, sons of Spirit Walker. (d. r.) Spitotha. One of the 5 original divisions or bands of the Shawnee (W. H. Shaw- nee in Gulf States Hist. Mag., i, 415,1903). Evidently distinct from Kispokotha, but probably the same as Mequachake, q. v. Spokan. A name applied to several small bodies of Salish on and near Spo- kane r., N. E. Wash. According to Gibbs the name was originally employed by the Skitswish to designate a band at the forks of the river, called also Smahoonienaish. By the whites it was extended to cover several nearly allied divisions, which Gibbs enumerates as follows: Sin-slik- hoo-ish, Sintootoolish, Sma-hoo-men-a- ish (Spokenish), Skai-schil-t'nish, Ske- chei-a-mouse, Schu-el-stish, Sin-poil- schne, Sin-shee-lish. The last two were claimed by the Okinagan also. All of them are now held to be "separate divi- sions and not bands of one tribe. The population was estimated by Lewis and Clark in 1805 at 600 in 30 houses, and bv Gibbs in 1853 at 450. In 1908 there were 301 "Lower Spokan" and 238 "Upper Spokan" under Colville agency. Wash., and 95 Spokan on Coeur d'Alene res., Idaho; total, 634. In 1909 the entire number of Spokan in Washington was 509, while those in Idaho numbered 104. Flat Heads.—Dart in Ind. Aff. Rep., 216, 1851 (so called because their heads were left in the natural state. (See Flatheafls.) Lar-li-e-lo.—Lewis and Clark Exped., I, map, 1S14. Lartielo.—Ibid., 11, 475, ISl-l. Lar-ti-e-to's Nation.—Orig. Jour. Lewis and Clark, vi, 119,1905. Ne-com-ap-oe-lox.—Suck- ley in Pae. R. R. Rep., i, 300, 1855. Salst sxastsit- lini.—Gatschet, MS., B. A. E. (Okinagan name for the Lower Spokan at Little Spokane Falls; = 'people with badheads'). Sar-lis-lo.—Gibbs in Pac. R. R. Rep., i, 417, 1855 (theLar-ti-e-lo of Lewis and Clark). Sin-ee-guo-men-ah.—Winans in Ind. Aff. Rep., 23,
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