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TAHAPIT TAHLTAN 



women. Their customs are primitive. 

 Men hold women in little respect, but 

 are jealous of their wives. They are fond 

 of games and athletic sports, and both 

 sexes are passionate gamblers. They 

 trap foxes, wolves, and wolverenes, ex- 

 changing the furs for guns, ammunition, 

 cutlery, and hardware at Ft Chinio, dis- 

 tant a whole winter's journey for a dog 

 team. The skirts of their coats are hung 

 with pear-shaped pieces of ivory that 

 rattle when they walk. 



Igdlumiut,— Boasineth Rep. B. A. E., 462, 1888 

 ('people of the other side': so called by the 

 Eskimo of Baffin land, on the opposite shore of 

 Hudson str.). Iglu-miut.— Boas in Trans. Anthr. 

 See. Wash., Ill, 95, 1885. Northerners.— Turner 

 in 11th Rep. B. A. E., 177, 1894 (so called by the 

 whites of Labrador). Tahagmyut. — Turner in 

 Trans. Roy. Soc. Can. 1887, sec. ii, 101, 1888. Ta 

 hag myut.— Turner in 11th Rep. B. A. E., 177, 1894. 

 Ungavamiut, — Boas in Am. Antiq., 40, 1888. 



Tahapit. A Maricopa rancheria on the 

 Rio Gila, Ariz., in 1744.— Sedelmair( 1744) 

 cited by Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex. , 366, 

 1889. 



Tahattawan. See Nattahattawants. 



Tahchee ( TdtsV, ' Dutch ' ) . A Western 

 Cherokee chief, one of the earliest emi- 

 grants to the Arkansas country to join 

 chief Bowl. After several years in Texas, 

 during which he led war parties against 

 the wilder tribes, he recrossed Red r. 

 and soon made himself so conspicuous in 

 raids on the Osage that a reward of $500 

 was offered by Gen. Arbuckle for his cap- 

 ture. To show his defiance of the procla- 

 mation, he deliberately journeyed to Ft 

 Gibson, attacked a party of Osage at a trad- 

 ing post near by, and scalped one of them 

 within hearing of the drums of the fort. 

 With rifle in one hand and the bleeding 

 scalp in the other, he leaped a precipice 

 and made his escape, although a bullet 

 grazed his cheek. On promise of am- 

 nesty and the withdrawal of the reward, 

 he returned and settled with his follow- 

 ers on the Canadian, s. w. of Ft Gibson, 

 establishing a reputation among army ofii- 

 cers as a valuable scout and guide. His 

 portrait was painted by Catlin in 1834. 

 See Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., pt. 1, 

 1900; McKenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, i, 

 251-260, 1858; Catlin, North Am. Inds., ii, 

 121, 122, 1844. 



Tah-gah-jute. See Logan. 



Tahiannihouq. An unidentified village 

 or tribe mentioned in 1687 to Joutel 

 (Margry, D6c., in, 409, 1878) while he 

 was staying with the Kadohadacho on 

 Red r. of Louisiana, by the chief of that 

 tribe, as being among his enemies. 



Tahijuas. A Chumashan village for- 

 merly near Santa Ines mission, Santa 

 Barbara co., Cal. — Tavlor in Cal. Farmer, 

 Oct. 18, 1861. 



Tahlasi ( TaHasV). A former Cherokee 

 settlement on Little Tennessee r., about 

 Talassee ford, in Blount co., Tenn. The 

 name has lost its meaning. (j. m.) 



Ta'lasi'.— Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., pt. 1, 533, 

 1900. Talassee. — Doc. of 1755 quoted by Royce in 

 6th Rep. B. A. E., 142, 1887. Tallase.— Bartram, 

 Travels, 371, 1792. Telassee.— Doc. of 1799 quoted 

 by Royce, op. cit., 144. Tellassee.— Timberlake, 

 Memoirs, map, 17t)5. 



Tahlequah ( Talihvd^, meaning lost). 

 The capital of the Cherokee Nation, in 

 N. E. Indian Ter., now incorporated w^ith 

 the state of Oklahoma. The name, cor- 

 rupted in the E. to Tellico (q. v.), is an 

 old Cherokee town name, and was for- 

 mally adopted for the new capital in 1839 

 on the reunion and reorganization of the 

 Old Settler and immigrant bands of Chero- 

 kee in the W. Tahlequah is now an en- 

 terprising railroad town of about 4,000 

 inhabitants, and contains, among other 

 buildings, the former Cherokee capitol 

 and a large Cherokee .female seminary. 

 Park Hill, the seat of the old Cherokee 

 mission press, is a few miles distant. Con- 

 sult Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., pt. 1, 

 1900. 



Tahlkoedi ('people of Tahlko,' where 

 they once camped) . A division of the Ra- 

 ven phratry of the Stikine in Alaska. 

 Detlk'oe'de.— Boas in 5th Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 

 25, 1889._ Talch-kuedi.— Krause, Tlinkitlnd., 120, 

 1885. Talqoe'di.—S wanton, field notes, B. A. E., 

 1904. Tal-qua-tee.— Kane, Wand, in N. A., app., 

 1859. 



Tahltan. The south westernmost tribal 

 division of the Nahane Indians of the Ath- 

 apascan family. Their hunting grounds 

 include the drainage basin of Stikine r. 

 and its tributaries as far as the mouth of 

 Iskut r., Dease lake, and the river halfway 

 to McDanes cr. ( but according to the old 

 law the head of Dease lake was Kaska ter- 

 ritory, and this assumption of rights has 

 never been acknowledged by the Kaska 

 people), the northern sources of the Nass, 

 and some of the southern branches of the 

 Taku, in Alaska and British Columbia. In 

 early daysthe salmon streams flowing into 

 the Stikine from the n., from 4 m. below 

 Glenora to, but not including. Telegraph 

 cr., were claimed and fished by the Stikine 

 tribe of Tlingit, but this overlapping of the 

 two peoples seems to have produced little 

 friction, possibly because the Tahltan had 

 no living places hereabouts, and in the 

 matter of the exchange of the products of 

 the coast and the interior it was of mutual 

 advantage to keep on friendly terms. 



The Tahltan have always lived on the 

 upper reaches of the Stikine and near by 

 on the Tahltan and Tuya rs. In early 

 days their living places were used more 

 as storage depots and were resorted to 

 through the summer months for salmon 

 fishing, which was also the season of ease 

 and feasting, when the pursuit of the fur- 

 bearing animals was without profit — for 

 the Tahltan people have always been 

 hunters and trappers, living in the open 

 throughout the year, meat eaters through 

 necessity and choice, and accepting fish 

 diet only as a change. 



