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TAIAIAGON TAJICARINGA 



[b. a. e. 



as their original habitat the region of 

 s. w. Texas, n. of the Rio Grande and 

 extending into s. New Mexico. ( J. m. ) 



Taiaiagon ( 'at the crossing or landing.' 

 — Hewitt). An Iroquois village in 1678 

 on the N. shore of L. Ontario, near the 

 present Toronto, Ont. 



Taiaiagon. — Heimepiii, New Diseov., 48, 1698. Te- 

 gaogen. — Esnauts and Rapilly map, 1777. Teiaia- 

 gon.— La Salle (16S4) in N. Y. Doe. Col. Hist., ix, 

 218, 1865. Tejaiagon,— Bellin map, 1755. Tejaja- 

 gon.— Hennepin, New Diseov., 28, 1698. Tejaja- 

 hon,— Macaulev, N. Y., ii, 191, 1829. Tezagon.— 

 French, Hist. Coll. La., i, 59, 1846. 



Taikus. A former Maidu settlement 

 near Cherokee or Pentz's, at the head of 

 Dry cr., Butte co., Cal. (r. b. d. ) 



Tagas.— Schooleraft, Ind. Tribes, vi, 710, 1857. 

 Tagus.— Johnston (1850) In Sen. Ex. Doc. 4, 32d 

 Cong., spec, sess., 45, 1853. Taiku.— Curtin, MS. 

 vocab.,B. A. E.,1885. Taikushi.— Ibid. Tigres.— 

 Sen. Ex. Doc. 57, 32d Cong., 2d sess., 15, 1853. 



Tailla ('crane.' — Hewitt). An uni- 

 dentified village on the St Lawrence, near 

 the present city of Quebec, in 1535. — Car- 

 tier (1535), Bref Recit, 32, 1863. 



Taimah (also Taiomah, Tama, properly 

 Taima, 'sudden crash' [of thunder]. — 

 Wm, Jones. The name has been mis- 

 translated "The bear whose voice makes 



the rocks to tremble"). A subordinate 

 chief of the Fox tribe, and member of 

 the Thunder clan, for some years ruler 

 and law-giver of a Fox village a short 

 distance above the mouth of Flint cr., 

 near the site of Burlington, la. He was 

 also a prominent medicine-man. Always 



friendly toward the whites, on one occa- 

 sion when a vindictive Indian had started 

 on a long journey for the purpose of kill- 

 ing the Indian agent at Prairie du Chien, 

 Wis., Taimah hastened to him and by a 

 timely warning saved his life. He was 

 one of the signers of the treaty with the 

 Sauk and Foxes at Washington, Aug. 4, 

 1824, in which his name appears as 

 "_Fai-mah, the Bear." He died among 

 his people a few years later. The county 

 and town of Tama, la. , preserve his name. 



Taimamares. A former tribe of s. Texas, 

 probably Coahuiltecan, associated with 

 the Gueiquesales, Manos Prieta.s, Bocores, 

 Haeser, Pinanacas, Escabas, Cacastes, 

 Cocobiptas, Cocomaque, Codame, Con- 

 totores, Colorados, and Babiamares in 

 1675 (Fernando del Bosque, 1675, trans, 

 in Nat. Geog. Mag., xiv, 340, 1903). 

 They are probably identical with the Te- 

 neinamar. Cf. Tumamamar. 



Taisida [TaV -si-da). A former Maidu 

 village a few miles s. e. of Marysville, 

 Yuba CO., Cal. — Dixon in Bull. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., XVII, map, 1905. 



Tai'chida.— Powers in Cont.N. A. Ethnol., iir, 282, 

 1877. Taitcedawi.— Curtin, MS. voeab., B. A. E., 

 1885. Tychedas. — Powers in Overland Mo., xii, 

 420, 1874. 



Tait ('those up river'). A collective 

 name for the Cowichan tribes on Fraser 

 r., Brit. Col., above Nicomen and Chilli- 

 wack rs. 



Haitlin. — Anderson quoted by Gibbsin Hist. Mag., 

 Ists., VII, 73,1863. Sa-chinco.— Ibid, ('strangers': 

 Shush wap name). Sa-chin-ko.—Mavne, Brit. Col., 

 295, 1862. Tait.— Trutch, Map of Brit. Col., 1870. 

 Tates.— Fitzhugh in Ind. Aff. Rep., 328, 1857. 

 Teates. — Mayne, op. cit. Teet. — .\nderson, op. 

 eit. Te'it,— Boas in Rep. 64th Meeting Brit. A. 

 A. S., 454, 1894. 



Taitinapam. A small Shahaptian tribe 

 speaking the Klikitat language and for- 

 merly living between the headwaters of 

 Lewis and Cowlitz rs. in Skamania co. , 

 Wash. They were never officially recog- 

 nized by the Government and if any sur- 

 vive they have probably been merged in 

 the Klikitat tribe. (l. f. ) 



Taikie-a-pain,— Stevens in Ind. Aff. Rep., 433, 

 1854. Tai-tim-pans.— Ford in H. R. Ex. Doc. 37, 

 34th Cong., 3a sess., 102, 1857. Tai-tin-a-pam.— 

 Gibbs in Pac. R. R. Rep. l, 403, 1855. Tait-inapum.— 

 Tolmie quoted by Lord, Nat. in Brit. Col., ii, 245, 

 1866. Taitinipans.— Stevens in H. R. Ex. Doc. 37, 

 34th Cong., 3d sess. ,54, 1857. Tintinapain. — School- 

 craft, Ind. Tribes, v, 490, 1855. 



Taiyanyanokhotana. A division of Kai- 

 yuhkhotana living on Kuskokwim r., 

 Alaska. Pop. 210 in 1890, 122 males and 

 88 females. Their chief villages, situated 

 near the Ru.ssian trading post of Kol- 

 makof, were Napai and Akmiut. 

 Tai-ya-yan'-o-khotan'-a. — Dall in Cent. N. A. Eth- 

 nol., I, 26, 1877. 



Tajicaringa. A former Tepehuane pue- 

 blo in Durango, Mexico, the seat of the 

 Spanish mission of Magdalena. 

 Magdalena Tajicaringa. — Orozco y Berra, Geog., 

 319, 1864. 



