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TALU ACH APKOAPOPKA TAM AKWA 



[b. a. b. 



Rep., 300, 1877. Galleace Creek.— Palmer in Ind. 

 Aff. Rep. 1856, 214, 1867. Gleese Cleek.— Ever- 

 ette, Tutu MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1883. Grease 

 Creeks.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 494, 1865. Ku-lis'-kitc 

 hitc'lura. — Dorsey, Alsea MS. vocab., B. A. E., 

 1884. Tal'-tac ^unne. — Dorsey, Tutu and Chasta- 

 costa MS. vocabs., B. A. E., 1884 (Tutu, Chasta- 

 costa, and Mishikhwutmetunne name). Tal'- 

 t'uo-tun tu'-de. — Dorsey, Galice Cr. MS. vocab., B. 

 A. E., 1884 (own name). Tanyl'-tao ^unne. —Dor- 

 sey, Naltunnetunne MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1884 

 (Naltunnetunne name). 



Taluachapkoapopka ( ' town where peas 

 are eaten'). A former Seminole town on 

 Pease cr., a short distance w. of lower St 

 Johns r., Fla. Apopka, in w. Orange co., 

 probably occupies its site. 

 Tal-lau-gue chapco pop-cau. — Hawkins (1799), 

 Sketcii, 25, 1848. Tolocchopka.— Gaines (1836) in 

 H. R. Doc. 78, 25th Cong., 2d sess., 863, 1838. 

 Tolopchopko. — Ibid., map, 768-9. 



Taluamikagi. The towns controlled by 

 the peace or white clans, forming one of 

 the two great divisions of the Creek settle- 

 ments. They were governed by civil offi- 

 cers only, and according to earlier authors 

 were considered as places of refuge for 

 criminals. The following are said to have 

 been the peace towns: Hitchiti, Oakfuski 

 (and 7 branch villages), Kasihta, Abihka, 

 Abikudshi, Talasse, Okchayi, Lutchapoga, 

 Tuskegee, Assilanapi, and Wewoka. 

 Cf. Kipaya. (a. s. g. ) 



E-tall-wau."^— Hawkins (1779), Sketcii, 52, 1842. 

 White towns. — Ibid. 



Taluathlako ('large town'). A town of 

 the Creek Nation, on the North Fork, at 

 the mouth of Alabama cr., Okla. — Gat- 

 schet, Creek Migr. Leg., ii, 186, 1888. 



Tarn. The Antelope clan of the Tigua 

 pueblo of Isleta, N. Mex. 

 T'am-t'ainin.— Lummis quoted by Hodge in Am. 

 Anthr., ix, 348, 1896 {Valnin='pQop\e'). 



Tama. The native name of one of the 

 administrative functionaries of the Hasi- 

 nai. The word was adopted by the 

 Spaniards of Texas and applied' quite 

 generally to similar officers among other 

 Indians. The tamas were messengers, 

 policemen, and overseers; they prepared 

 materials for ceremonies, ran from house 

 to house calling people together for festi- 

 vals and meetings, notified them when 

 they must help with communal labor, 

 and stood by to see that each did his 

 part. Speaking of this last function, Jesus 

 Maria says of them: "These are the ones 

 who hasten affairs; the lazy they whip on 

 the legs with rods" (Jesus Maria, Rela- 

 cion, MS., 1691; Espinosa, Chr6nica Apos- 

 t61ica, 420, 421, 431, 1746). (h. e. b.) 



Tama. See Taimah. 



Tamaha ( ' rising moose ' ) . A noted 

 chief of the Mdewakanton Sioux, who 

 lived in the region of Blue Earth and 

 Mille Lacs in Minnesota. He was born 

 on the site of Winona, Minn., about 

 1775, and in the early part and mid- 

 dle of the last century was one of the 

 chief men of his tril^e. He seems to 

 have maintained throughout his long life 

 an excellent reputation for honesty. In 



childhood, while at play, he sustained 

 the loss of an eye, on which account the 

 French nicknamed him "Le Borgne," or 

 "One Eye," and the English "theOne- 

 Eyed Sioux." In 1806-07 he met and 

 formed a great admiration for Lieut. Z. M. 

 Pike, and so constantly did he sing the 

 praises of his white friend that the Indians, 

 with a sense of humor worthy a modern 

 punster, changed the pronunciation of 

 the last syllable of his name from liaw to 

 /lay, which made the name signify ' ' pike, ' ' 

 the fish. Because of his attachment for 

 Pike, he is said to have been the only 

 Sioux Indian, with one exception, whose 

 sympathies were with the Americans, 

 and who did active service for them 

 during the War of 1812. In this crisis, 

 when Joseph Renville and the old Little 

 Crow led their Sioux followers against 

 the United States forces, Tahama refused 

 to join them. At this period he made 

 his way to St Louis, and at the solicita- 

 tion of General Clarke, then Indian Com- 

 missioner, he entered the service of the 

 United States as a scout and messenger. 

 He returned in 1814 with Manuel Lisa, 

 when the latter was on his way to confer 

 with the Missouri River Indians, and, 

 parting with him at the mouth of James 

 r., carried dispatches to the Americans 

 at Prairie du Chien, Wis. Through 

 many privations and discouragements 

 he remained loyal to the United States 

 and faithfully performed the duties 

 assigned him. While on one of his trips 

 to Prairie du Chien, Tamaha was im- 

 prisoned by Col. Robert Dickson, an 

 Indian trader, and at that time an officer 

 in the service of the British, who, under 

 threat of death, attempted to compel 

 him to divulge information relative to 

 the Americans; but Tamaha would not 

 yield. After a term of imprisonment he 

 was released and again visited St Louis 

 in 1816. On this visit he was present at 

 the council held by General Clarke with 

 the forty-six chiefs from the upper Mis- 

 souri, who had returned with Manuel 

 Lisa. On this occasion General Clarke 

 presented him with a medal of honor 

 and a captain's uniform, and commis- 

 sioned him chief of the Sioux nation. 

 He is said to have been a man of fine 

 physique and much natural dignity, and 

 an orator of unusual ability. One of his 

 peculiarities was to wear always a stove- 

 pipe hat. Until his death, at Wabasha, 

 Minn., in April, 1860, at the age of 85, 

 he was much respected, not only by the 

 whites but by his own people. His name 

 is also written Tahama, Tahamie, Tam- 

 mahaw. By the French he was called 

 Orignal Leve, the translation of his na- 

 tive designation, (d. r. c. t. ) 



Tamakwa ( Ta-md' -kwa, ' beaver ' , lit. 

 ' wood-cutter' ) . A gens of the Abnaki. — 

 Morgan, Anc. Soc, 174, 1878. 



