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lachee appear to have taken advantage of 

 it. They remained at first on Red r., 

 but in a few years removed to Bayou 

 Boeuf. About the time when Louisiana 

 passed under control of the United States 

 they sold these lands also and moved to 

 the northern end of Grand lake, where a 

 small bayou bears their name. As an 

 independent tribe they have now disap- 

 peared, though some Chitimacha Indians 

 are descended from them. The Taensa 

 were always a comparatively small tribe. 

 In 1698 De JNIontigny estimated them at 

 700, and two years later Iberville placed 

 the number of their warriors at 300, 

 while in 1702 he assigned them 150 fam- 

 ilies, a figure also given by St Cosme the 

 year before. Du Pratz (1718-34) placed 

 the numl)er of their cabins after their re- 

 moval to Mobile at 100, probably an 

 overestimate. The "Little Taensas" 

 spoken of by Iberville were evidently the 

 Avoyelles (q. v.). In 1699 a Taensa 

 Indian gave Iberville the following list of 

 villages belonging to his people, but most 

 of the names are evidently in the Mobil- 

 ian trade language: Taensas, Chaoucoula, 

 Conchayon, Couthaougoula, Nyhougou- 

 las, Ohytoucoulas, and Talaspa. 



The Taensa have attained a unique 

 interest in modern times from an attempt 

 of two French seminarists to introduce a 

 product of their own ingenuity as a 

 grammar of the Taensa language. The 

 deception was exposed by Brinton in 

 1885, but for a while it gave rise to a 

 heated controversy. See Pseudo- Indian. 

 Consult Swanton (1) in Am. Anthr., 

 X, 24, 1908, and authors therein cited; (2) 

 in Bull. 43, B. A. E., 1910. (,i. r. s.) 

 Caensa.— Neill, Hist. Minn., 173, 1858. Cho'sha.— 

 Swanton in Am. Anthr., x, no. 1, 1908 (Chiti- 

 macha name). Grands Taensas. — Iberville (1699) 

 in Margry, Dec, iv, 409, 1880. Hastriryini.— Par- 

 i,sot and Adam, Taensa Grammar, 1882 (said to 

 mean 'warriors' and to be their own name). 

 Tabensa. — Coxe, Carolana, map, 1741. Taencas. — 

 Tonti (1082) in French, Hist. Coll. La., i, 62, 1846. 

 Taensas. — Hennepin, New Discov., 155, 1698. 

 Taensos.— Giissefeld, Map U. S., 1784. Taenzas.— 

 Shea, Cath. Miss., 437, 1855. Tahensa.— Tonti 

 (1684) in Margrv, D^e., i, 616, 1876. Takensa.— 

 Joutel (1685) in French, Hist. Coll. La., 1, 152, 1846. 

 Talusas.— LaMetairle(1682)quoted,ibid.,ii,21,1875 

 (miscopied). Tenisaws.— Sibley, Hist. Sketches, 

 84, 1806. Tensagini.— Parisot aiid Adam, Taensa 

 Gram., 1882. Tensas.— Penicaut (1700) in French, 

 Hist. Coll. La., n. s., i, 58, 1869. Tensau.— Drake, 

 Bk. Inds., bk. 4, 55, 1848. Tensaw.— Siblev, Hist. 

 Sketches, 84, 1806. Tenza.— Ibid., 121. Tinjas.— 

 Jefferys, Am. Atlas, map 5, 1776. Tinnsals. — Char- 

 levoix, New France, vi, 39, 1866. Tinsas.— Peni- 

 caut (1700) in Margry, D(5c., v, 397, 1883. Tins- 

 sas.— Ibid., 608. 



Taensa. The chief one of the 7 Taensa 

 villages in 1699. — Iberville in Margry, 

 Dec, IV, 179, 1880. 



Tagasoke { Ta-ga-soke, ' forked like a 

 spear'). An Oneida village formerly on 

 Fish cr., near Vienna, Oneida co., N. Y. — 

 Morgan, League Iroq., 473, map, 1851. 



Tagish. A small tribe living about 

 Tagish and Marsh lakes, Brit. Col. They 



are classed with the Tlingit stock on the 

 basis of a vocabulary obtained by Dawson 

 (Rep. Geol. Surv. Can., 192b, 1887); but 

 as they resemble the interior Athapascan 

 Indians in every other respect, it is likely 

 that they have adopted their present lan- 

 guage from the Chilkat. They are prob- 

 ably part of Dall's "Nehaunee of the 

 Chilkaht river." (j. r. s. ) 



stick Indians.— Dawson in Rep. Geol. Surv. Can., 

 192b, 1887 (coast name for these people and all 

 other interior Indians). Tahk-heesh. — Schwatka 

 in Century Mag., 747, Sept. 1885. Tank-heesh.— 

 Ibid., 743 (may be the Takonof Schwatka). 



Taguanate. An unidentified province 

 and town near which Moscoso, after the 

 death of De Soto, built his boats and em- 

 barked on the Mississippi in the summer 

 of 1543. According to Lewis (in Span. 

 Explorers, 1528-1543, 252, 1907) the Ta- 

 guanate province was on White r. , and 

 the town was probably in the s. part of 

 Monroe co.. Ark., possibly at Indian 

 Bay. 



Tagoanate.— Gentl. of Elvas (1557) in Span. Ex- 

 plorers, op. cit., 250. Taguanate.— Ibid., 251. 



Tagui. Given as a village near the 

 headwaters of San Luis Bey r., San Diego 

 CO., Cal., in 1795 (Grijalva cited by Ban- 

 croft, Hist. Cal., I, 563, 1»86). Probably 

 the same as Taqui, mentioned by San- 

 chez in 1821 (ibid., ii, 443) as existing 7 

 or 8 m. N. of Santa Isabel; and asTahwie, 

 a Diegueiio rancheria represented in the 

 treaty of Santa Isabel, s. Cal., in 1852 

 (H. R. Doc. 76, 34th Cong., 3d sess., 132, 

 1857). Kroeber (inf'n, 1907) regards the 

 name as possibly a misprint of Pawi 

 (Spanish Pagui or Pahui), the Luiserio 

 name of Cahuilla valley, the present Ca- 

 huilla res. just n. of the headwaters of 

 San Luis Rey r. 



Taguta. Given as a Kaiyuhkhotana 

 village on the n. bank of Yukon r., 15 m. 

 below the Kaiyuh mouth, Alaska. 

 Tagutakaka. — Raymond in Sen. Ex. Doc. 12, 42d 

 Cong., 1st sess., 25, 1871. 



Tagwahi {Tagwd'hi, 'Catawba place'). 

 The name of several Cherokee settle- 

 ments. One of them, known to the whites 

 as Toccoa, was situated on Toccoa cr., e. 

 of Clarkesville, Habersham co., Ga. ; an- 

 other was on Toccoa or Ocoee r. , about 

 the present Toccoa, in Fannin co., Ga., 

 and a third may have been on Persimmon 

 cr., which is known to the Cherokee as 

 Tagwa'hi, and enters Hiwassee r. some 

 distance below Murphy, in Cherokee co., 

 N. C— Mooney in 19'th Rep. B. A. E., 

 533, 1900. 



Tocoah.— Doc. of 1799 quoted by Royce in5th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 144, 1887. 



Tahagmiut ( ' people of the shadow, ' that 

 is, livingtoward the sunset). An Eskimo 

 tribe inhabiting the Labrador shore of 

 Hudson str. from Leaf r. w., and the 

 coast of Hudson bay s. to Mosquito bay. 

 They are tall and of fine physique, the 

 men larger on the average than whites, 

 the women equal to the average white 



