. Bulletin. Ethnology. 260 CHICKAMAUGA CHICKASAW [b. a. e. 'cleared,' and implying a clearing— Gerard). A trilie of the Powhatan con- federacy, formerly living on Chicka- hominyr.,Va. It was one of the most important tribes in Virginia, numbering 250 warriors, or perhaps 900 souls, in 1608, and was not so directly under the control of Powhatan as the other tribes over which he ruled. In 1613 they en- tered into an alliance with the English and assumed the name of Tassautessus {sic), or "; In 1669 they were still estimated at 60 warriors, possi- bly 220 souls, but in 1722 w
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 260 CHICKAMAUGA CHICKASAW [b. a. e. 'cleared,' and implying a clearing— Gerard). A trilie of the Powhatan con- federacy, formerly living on Chicka- hominyr.,Va. It was one of the most important tribes in Virginia, numbering 250 warriors, or perhaps 900 souls, in 1608, and was not so directly under the control of Powhatan as the other tribes over which he ruled. In 1613 they en- tered into an alliance with the English and assumed the name of Tassautessus {sic), or "; In 1669 they were still estimated at 60 warriors, possi- bly 220 souls, but in 1722 were reported to number only about 80. Their last public notice occurs in this same year, when, in connection with the Pamunkey, they were named in the Albany confer- ence with the Iroquois as among the Vir- ginia tribes not to be molested by the. CHICKAHOMINY WOMAN. (mOONEy) latter. A mixed-blood band numbering about 220 still keeps up the name, but without regular tribal organization, on both sides of Chickahominy r. in iSfew Kent and Charles City cos., Va., with Wm. H. Adkins as chief in 1905. They are on close terms of association with the neighboring bands of Pamunkey and Mattapony. On the origin and applica- tion of the name consult Tooker, Algonq. Sen, IX, 1900; Gerard in Am. Anthrop., VII, 224, 1905. (j. M.) Chechohomynies,—Smith, Works, Arber ed., Ixxv, 1884. Checkahomanies.—Harris, Voy. and Trav., I, 839,1705. Chekahomanies.—Ibid. Chicahamanias.— Smith (1629), Virginia, ll, 16, repr. 1S19. Chicho- minys.—Albany conference (1722) in N. Y. Doe. Col. Hist., V, 673, 1855. Chickahamanias.—Smith (1629), Virginia, ii, 27, repr. 1819. Chickaha- mines.—Strachey (co. 1612), Virginia, 51, 1849. Chickahomines.—Boudinot, Star in the West, 126, 1816. Chickahominys,—Spotswood (1712) in Va. Hist. Soc. Coll., n. s., l, 157, Chickahomones.— Jefferson () in .Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, 36, 1855. Chickahomonie,—Beverly, Virginia, 199, 1722. Chikahomin
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