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Tala ('palmetto town'). One of the 

 Choctaw Six-towns which controlled land, 

 chiefl)' in Newton co., Miss., lying be- 

 tween Tarlow and Bogue Felanima crs. 

 from the watershed connecting the head- 

 waters of these two streams down to the 

 confluence of each with Pottokchito cr. 

 It was a thickly settled community, 

 nearly all of the people of which went W. 

 in the migration of 1832. — Halbert in Pub. 

 Ala. Hist. Soc, Misc. Coll., i, 381, 1901. 

 Talla. — West Florida map, ca. 1775. Tallatown. — 

 Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., i, 109, 1884. 



Tala {la la, 'wolf'). A Yuchi clan. 



Daia.— Speck, Yuchi Inds., 70, 1909. Ta'la taha.— 

 Gatschet, Uchee MS. , B. A. E., 1885 ( = ' wolf gens' ). 

 Taladega {Talatigi, ir oin ituiua 'town,' 

 aiigi 'at the end'). A former Upper 

 Creek town e. of Coosa r., on the site of 

 the present town of the same name, in 

 N. E. Talladega co., Ala. A battle was 

 fought there Nov. 7, 1813. (a. s. g. ) 

 Taladega.— Drake, Bk. Inds.. bk. 4, 108, 1848. Tala- 

 tigi.— Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., l, 144, 1884. Tal- 

 ladega.— Flint, Ind. Wars, 187, 1833. Talledega.— 

 Hawkins (1814) in Am. State Pap., Ind. Atf., i, 

 845, 1832. 



Taladega. A town of the Creek Nation, 

 on Canadian r., s. w. of Hilabi, Okla. 

 Taladega.— Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., ii, 186, 

 1888. Taladigi.— Ibid. 



Talahassee ( 'old town, ' from tdlna 'town' , 

 hasi 'old.' — Gatschet). A former Semi- 

 nole town situated on what in 1 775 was the 

 road from the ford of Ocklocknee r. to 

 Mikasuki town, Fla. ; now the site of 

 Tallahassee, the capital. According to 

 Bartram (Trav., 225, 1792) it consisted of 

 about 30 houses at that time. 



Sim-e-no-le-tal-lau-haf-see. — Hawkins (1799), 

 Sketch, 25, 1848 (/=.?). Spring Gardens.-H. R. 

 Ex. Doe. 74 (1823), 19th Cong., lstse.ss., 27,1826. 

 Tahalasochte. — Bartram, Trav., I, map, 1799. 

 Talahasochte.— Ibid., 224, ed. 1792. Tallahassa.— 

 H. R. Ex. Doc. 74, op. cit. Tallahasse. — .\m. 

 State Pap., Ind. Aff. (1802), i, 677, 1832. Talle- 

 hassas. — Mor.se, Rep. to Sec. War, 364, 1822. 



Talahassudshi ('little Talasse'). A 

 town of the Creek Nation on the n. bank 

 of Canadian r. about 18 m. w. of Eufaula, 

 Okla. See Talasse. 



Talahassudshi.— Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., ii, 186, 

 1888. 



Talahi ( Tald^M, 'white-oak place,' from 

 tdW 'white oak'). A Cherokee settle- 

 ment about 1776; locality unknown. 

 Tellowe.— Bartram, Trav., 371, 1792. Tetohe.— 

 Mouzon's map cited by Rovce in 6th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 143, 1887 (possibly identical). 



Talak [Ta^lak). A former Nishinam 

 village in the valley of Bear r., which is 

 the next stream n. of Sacramento, Cal. 

 Talac. — Powers in Overland Mo., xii, 22, 1874. 

 Ta'lak.— Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., ill, 316, 

 1877. 



Talakhacha. A former Seminole town 

 on the w. side of C. Florida, on the Florida 

 coast. Tullishago was chief in 1823. — 

 H. R. Ex. Doc. 74 (1823), 19th Cong., 1st 

 sess., 27, 1826. 



Talal. A former village of the Willo- 

 pah, 6 m. s. of Claquato, Lewis co., Wash. 



Chis-le-rah.— Gibbs, MS., B. A. E. (Cowlitz 

 name). Ford's Prairie. — Ibid. Tahtl-shin. — Ibid, 

 (own name). Talal. — Ibid. (Chehalis namej. 

 xsa-whah-sen. — Ibid. 



Talaniyi ('sumac place,' from ialanl 

 ' red sumac ' ) . A Cherokee settlement in 

 upper Georgia about the period of the re- 

 moval of the tribe to the W. in 1839; 

 known to the whites as "Shoemake." 

 Shoemeck. — Doc. of 1799 quoted by Royce in 5th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 144, 1887. 



Talapoosa. A comprehensive name for 

 the Creek towns and tribes formerly on 

 Tallapoosa r., Ala. They belonged to 

 the Upper Creek division, forming its 

 eastern group. There were 13 towns of 

 the Talapoosa in 1715, with 2,343 inhabit- 

 ants. The most important were Atasi, 

 Fusihatchi, Hillabi, Huhliwahli, Imukfa, 

 Kitchopataki,Kulumi, Talasse, and Tuka- 

 batchi. (a. s. g.) 



Talabouches. — Robin, Voy. a la Louisiane, ii, .54, 

 1807. Talabouchi.— De I'lsle, map (1700) in Winsor 

 Hist. Amer., ii, 295, 1886. Talapenches. — French, 

 Hist. Col. La., ii, 70, 18,50. Talapoashas.— Bossu 

 (1759), Trav. La., i, 229, 1771. Talapoosas.— La 

 Harpe in French, Hist. Coll. La., iii, 43, 44, 18.51. 

 Talapouche. — Ibid., 29. Talapousses. — Berquin 

 Duvallon, Trav. La., 94, 1806. Talapiis.— Hervas, 

 Idea deir Univer.so, xvii, 90, 1784. Talepoosas.— 

 Keane in Stanford, Compend., .537, 1878. Tali- 

 pupes. — Barcia, Ensayo, 313, 1723. Tallabutes. — 

 German map of Brit. Colonics, ca. 17.50 (placed on 

 Chatahoochie r.). Tallapoosa. — Hawkins (1814) 

 in Am. State Pap., Ind. Aff., I, 860, 1832. Talli- 

 booses.— Rivers, Hist. S. C, 94, 1874. Talli- 

 bosuies. — Coxe, Carolana, 23, 1741. Tallpoosas. — 

 McKenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, iii, 80, 1854. 



Talaspa. One of the 7 Taensa villages 

 in 1699. — Iberville in Margry, Dec, iv, 

 179, 1880. 



Talasse ( Td-ll-si, contr. of itdlua-ah&ssi, 

 'old town'). A former Upper Creek 

 town, known also as Big Talasse, on the 

 E. bank of Tallapoosa r., opposite Tuka- 

 batchi, in n. w. Macon co., Ala. Ac- 

 cording to Hawkins (Sketch, 39, 1848) 

 the remains of Old Talasse were 4 m. 

 higher up the river in 1799. On account 

 of its position on the "trader's trail" 

 from Kasihta to the Upper Creek towns 

 it became known also as "Halfway 

 House." (a. s. g. ) 



Big Talassee.— U. S. Ind. Treat. (1797), 69, 1837. 

 Big Tallasees. — Ibid. Big Tallassee. — Seagrove 

 (1793) in Am. State Pap., Ind. Aff., i, 387, 1832 

 Half-way house.— White (1789), ibid., 22. Half- 

 way house Indians. — Jordan (1794), ibid., 485. 

 Old Tal-e-see— Hawkins (1799), Sketch, 39, 1848. 

 Tal-e-see.— Ibid., 2.5-27. Tal-la-se.— Adair, Hist. 

 Am. Inds., 2.57, 1775. Tallassee. — Am. State Pap., 

 op. cit., .552. Tallisee. — Ellicott, Journal, 225, 

 1799. Taulasse Viejo.— Alcedo, Die. Geog., v, 55, 

 1789 (Spanish form; i. e., "Old Taula.sse"). 



Talasse. A former Upper Creek town 

 on the E. bank of Coosa r., 1 m. below 

 the falls, in Elmore co., Ala. It was 

 generally known to white settlers and 

 traders as Little Talasse, and has been 

 identified as the Italisi, Tali, Talise, and 

 Talisse of the chroniclers of the De Soto 

 expedition. According to Benjamin Haw- 

 kins (Sketch, 40, 1848)'the place mustered 

 40 gun-men in 1799. It is unlikely that 

 this is the Tali mentioned by Coxe (Caro- 

 lana, 14, 1741) as on an island in Tennes- 

 see r. See Odshiapofa. (a. s. g. ) 

 Acheaubofau.— Wilkinson and Hawkins (1802) in 

 Am. State Pap., Ind. Aff., r, 670, 1832. Cales.— 

 French, Hist. Coll. La., in, 238, 1851 (plural form of 



