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we do not know, but the major part of the tribe continued to reside 

 near the Natchez. WTien Fort Rosalie was first established, the Tioux 

 village was 1 league south of it and 2 leagues west of the great vil- 

 lage of the Natchez, Says Dumont, " South of the fort was another 

 little Indian tribe called the Tioux, who willingly traded with the 

 French, but some years after abandoned their village to go and settle 

 elsewhere, and before leaving sold their ground to one of the richest 

 settlers in the country, the Sieur Roussin," « 



Between the second and third Natchez wars Dumont records that 

 an Indian struck a mare belonging to one of the concessions with a 

 tomahawk and cut off her tail, and that the blame for this was laid 

 upon the Tioux, of whom a man named Bamboche was at that time 

 considered head chief. The latter denied the charge, whereupon a 

 tax of a basket of corn was levied on all the villages of the Natchez 

 nation, including the Tioux, by the Tattooed-serpent, and paid over 

 to the French.'' In 1718 La Harpe mentions a Tioux shaman called 

 in by the Tunica chief to cure his son, and afterward put to death 

 for having declared that had he been paid enough he would have 

 done so.«" After the Natchez outbreak and massacre of 1729 the 

 Natchez sent this little tribe on a vain mission to the Tunica, De- 

 cember 9, 1730, to induce them to declare against the French.'* In 

 1731, as noted above, Charlevoix states that they were utterly cut 

 oft' l)y the Arkansas.'' This may well be doubted, but receives some 

 corroboration from the fact that no notice of them appears afterward. 



The Grigra 



The Grigra, like the Tioux, had been adopted as Stinkards by the 

 Natchez. Du Pratz states that their adoption had been earlier,^ and 

 they seemed to have been esteemed even less, their tribal integrity 

 not having been preserved to the same degree. They evidently con- 

 stituted the population of the town of the Gras or Gris — mistranslated 

 by French " Gray " ^ — often mentioned as one of the three in the 

 English or, at any rate, anti-French party. We know that they had a 

 temple of their own, because Dumont, in speaking of the burning of 

 their village by Bienville in 1723, mentions the fact.'' Of the part 

 that they played in the subsequent history of the Natchez Ave know 

 nothing. 



" Dumont, French's Translation in Hist. Coll. La., 32, 1853. 



" See pp. 216-217. 



' Sec pp. 325-326. 



■^ Charlevoix in Shea, lUst. of New France, vi, 95. 



<• See p. 242. 



f Du Pratz, Hist, de l.a Louisiane, u, 222. 



"French, Hist. Coll. La., 51, 1853. 



* See p. 213. 



