WAZIRISTAN, wii-ze-rl-stiins the coun try of the Waziris, Northwestern India, a moun tainous region situated west of the Suliman range, north of British Baluchistan, and east of Afghanistan. It is now partly included in Brit ish India, and has at various times been the scene of military operations owing to the depre dations and raids of the Waziris on the cara vans traversing the Gomul Pass. The British government maintains political agencies in both Northern and Southern Waziristan. The prin cipal town is Kanigoram. It is a mountainous country, with much fine scenery, and a delight ful climate except in some of the valleys. The Waziris, a portion of whom are known as Mahsuds, are a hardy race of Afghans. Some of them have settled peaceably within British territory, where they cultivate the land. Their crops are wheat, maize and barley; they raise horses and sheep, and iron and wood are ex ported.
WEA (contraction of Wayatonuki, people), a tribe of the Algonquin stock of North American Indians, belonging to the Miami confederacy. When first known to the
whites, in 1672-1703, they were in Wisconsin, but they seem to have gradually drifted south ward, and in 1701 one of their villages was on the site of the present Chicago, Ill., and in 1719 their chief village was on the Wabash below the mouth of Wea Creek, in Indiana. They were hostile against the whites in western Vir ginia, in which their country was situated, but they finally signed the celebrated treaty of Greenville in 1795, and in 1820 sold their last lands in Indiana and moved with the Pianka shaws to Illinois and Missouri. In 1832 they again sold their lands and the main body moved to 1Cansas, whither a few of their number had already migrated. In 1854 the rapidly decreas ing Weas and Piankashaws united with the Peorias and Kaskaskias of the Illinois confed eracy; at this time, their population aggregated 259, largely mixed-bloods. In 1868 they moved to the Neosho Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, where the small remnant has been absorbed.