WAZIRISTAN, wazcTpstiin'. A mountain ous region in the northwestern part of India, bordering upon Afghanistan and included in the territory between the Gomul and Toehi rivers, now forming part of the Northwest Frontier Province. It is well watered and the higher al titudes abound in picturesque scenery and have a healthful climate. Iron-mining and the breeding of horses and donkeys are the principal indus tries. Its isolated situation renders Waziristan practically independent. in 1897, as a result of depredations committed by the inhabit ants, a British force took possession of the Toehi Valley. The chief town is Kanigoram.
WEA (abbreviated from Wawiatenong, refer ring to a settlement near an eddy in a stream). A subtribe of the Miami (q.v.). At the begin ning of the nineteenth century they were resi dent upon the Upper Wabash River, with their principal village, known to the French as Quia tenon, just below the mouth of Wea Creek. be
low the present site of Lafayette, Indiana. The Weft and the Piankishaw (q.v.) were always considered divisions of the Miami. apart from whom they have no separate history until Little Turtle secured their recognition as dis tinct tribes at the Greenville treaty in 1795 in order to obtain from them separate tribal an nuities. In 1820 the Wea sold their reserved lands in Indiana and removed with the Pianki slum to Illinois and Missouri, whence they afterwards removed to Kansas. In 1854 the two tribes, reduced to a mere remnant, united with the remnants of the Peoria (q.v.) and Kaskaskia (q.v.), all that were left of the ancient Illinois (q.v.). In 1868 they removed to a reservation in the northeast corner of Indian Territory, where they number now all told only I80, prob ably not one being of pure blood.