The _Akowini_ are met again, which appear to have become the ancestors of the Cowetas and many Florida tribes. The _Lowanuski_ were either the Uskis or the Skeres. The _Towakon_ were not the Ottawas; but probably the Ozages or their ancestors the Wakons.(61)
At last they meet the civilized _Talegas_, who are not called snakes, but rather extolled, and from whom they borrowed many things: their symbol is very different from that of the snakes. They were probably of eastern or atlantic origin, akin to the Tols, Talascas, and Telicos the ancient Cherokis. The _Talamatan_ become allies, were the Hurons, the name means both _unlike the Talegas_ and _killer of the Talas_.--See Cusick, and my Huron Traditions for their own annals.
The separations of the Nentegos and Shawanis, Mohigans, and Wapanends or Abenakis, are distinctly given; they filled the sea shores from Florida to Acadia. Three tribes of snakes reappear which are similar to the former, except the _Lowako_ probably the same as _Lowanuski_. After crossing the Alleghanies Tamenend II. reunites all the tribes. The _Hiliniki_ and _Conowiki_ easily identified remain west of the mountains. The Iroquois and Eries appear under peculiar Linapi names.
The Otalis and Cowetas appear soon after as snakes or foes; whether the Otalis or Cherokis of the mountains were real snakes of the west is doubtful; it is more likely that they are a fragment of the Telicos, which was their capital till lately, and later they are called _Otaliwi_ by the Linapis. Compare the Tzuluki traditions with these.
The Tawas who call themselves fathers, as the Linapi grandfathers, of all the akin tribes, had then towards 1400, a great power in the west: their empire had a pontiff _Mushkiwis_ near lake Michigan, on whom Cass has given some very important traditions.
The following chief chronological periods are deducible from these annals, by reckoning 3 generations in a century. About 1600 years before Christ passage of Behring strait on the ice, lead by _Wapalanewa_, settlement at _Shinaki_.
1450. _Chilili_ leads them south, and the _Tamakwi_ separate.
1040. Peace after long wars under _Langundewi_ at the land _Akolaking_.
650. _Penkwonwi_ leads east over mountains.