Identifier: wildernesstrail02hann (find matches)
Title: The wilderness trail; or, The ventures and adventures of the Pennsylvania traders on the Allegheny path, with some new annals of the Old West, and the records of some strong men and some bad ones
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Hanna, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1863-1950
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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d turkey. However, the vocabularies ofthe Illinois and the Miami, as given by Gallatin, may better explain themeaning of the term Mosopelea (or Monsouperia, as spelled byJoliet). The Illinois word for deer was mousoah (Miami, musuoh),and for turkey, pireouah3 (pilauoh in Miami),—the r sound being 1 Margry, ii., 95; Hennepin, Thwaitess edition, ii., 628. 2 Wape-mashehawey, translated White Elk, was the name of one of the OhioShawnee chiefs who attended the conference at Lancaster in August, 1762. 3 James Logan wrote of the Cumberland or the Tennessee River in 1718: Amongdivers other large streams, it (the Ohio River) receives the River Peresipi on the southside, not far from the mouth of Wabasha, which said River of Peresipi is said to risein the mountains of Virginia or Carolina.—Hazards Penna. Reg., iii., 211. Peresipi,as shown above, is equivalent to Pellewaa Theepee, the Shawnee name for the Ohiomeaning Turkey River. Pelesippi is also given as one of the names for Clinchs River
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The Ohio Valley before the White Man Came 99 very rare, and equivalent to 1 in most of the Algonquin languages.It is possible, therefore, that Mosopelea River meant to the westernAlgonquins the River of Deer and Turkeys; though Mr. James Mooneyhas suggested to the writer that mo so may be an adjective, and meansomething other than elk; and this may be true, as we have seen intranslating it as wormy. The noun, mo so, has been retained to thepresent day in the name of the Muskingum River, an important tribu-tary of the Ohio, at the mouth of which some of the most elaborate andimportant Indian mounds in existence are still to be seen. The meaningof the word Muskingum, as given by Zeisberger, Jones, and othereighteenth century travellers in Ohio, is Elks Eye River. The Scioto ftoo, it will be remembered, was known to the Indians of Ohio from theearliest historic period as a Deer River, the name Scioto itself beinga modified form of Ooscanoto, the Wyandot word for deer. It wouldappear to b

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