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TARGHUTTHOTUNNE TASOALUSA 



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Ta-rxin'-'a-a'-tun.— Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, 

 III, 236, 1890. 



Targhutthotunne ( ' people on the prairie 

 sloping gently to the river'). A former 

 Tututni village near the coast in Oregon. 

 T'a'-a-t'fo' ^unne. — Dor.';ey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, 

 in, 233, 1890 (Naltimnetunne name). Ta'-rxut- 

 t'fo ^unne. — Ibid. 



Tarhe ('crane'). A noted Wyandot 

 chief of the Porcupine clan, born at De- 

 troit in 1742, died at Cranetown, near 

 Upper Sandusky, Wvandot co., Ohio, in 

 Nov. 1818. He was called Le Chef Grue, 

 or Monsieur Grue, by the French; the 

 English knew him as Crane. When in 

 his prime Tarhe was a lithe, wiry man, 

 capable of great endurance. He fought 

 at Point Pleasant on the Kanawha under 

 Cornstalk in 1774, and it is said that, of 

 the thirteen chiefs who participated in 

 the battle of Maumee Eapids, or Fallen 

 Timbers, in 1794, when the Indians met 

 with such disastrous defeat at the hands 

 of Wayne, Tarhe was the only one to es- 

 cape, and he was badly wounded in the 

 arm. Largely through his influence, and 

 in the face of great opposition, the treaty 

 of Greenville in 1795 was made possible, 

 and he ever after held its provisions in- 

 violate, even to opposing Tecumseh's 

 war policy from 1808 until the War of 

 1812. He remained faithful to the Ameri- 

 can cause during this conflict, and, al- 

 though more than 70 years of age, 

 marched at the head of his warriors 

 through the whole of Gen. Harrison's 

 campaign into Canada, and participated 

 in the battle of the Thames, Oct. 5, 1813, 

 in which Tecumseh was slain. From the 

 close of the war until his death in 1818, 

 Tarhe became well known to the settlers 

 in central Ohio, "many of whom were 

 honored by his friendship and benefited 

 by his influence." Harrison described 

 him in 1814 as a " venerable, intelligent, 

 and upright man," and at another time, 

 while speaking highly of several impor- 

 tant chiefs with whom he had been largely 

 in contact, he designated Chief Crane as 

 the noblest of them all. He was chief 

 priest of his trilte, and as such was the 

 keeper of the calumet which bound the 

 tribes n. of the Ohio in a confederation 

 for mutual benefit and protection. After 

 his death a mourning council was held at 

 Upper Sandusky, attended by represent- 

 atives of all the tribes of Ohio, the Del- 

 awares of Indiana, and the Seneca of 

 New York, among the noted chiefs 

 present being Red Jacket. The exact 

 place of his burial is unknown. See Tay- 

 lor in Ohio Arch, and Hist. Quar., ix, no. 

 1, 3, 1900. 



Tarkepsi (Tdr-kqV-si). One of the 

 Chumashan villages formerly near Santa 

 Ines mission, Santa Barbara co., Cal.- — 

 Henshaw, Santa Ines MS. vocab., B. A. 

 E., 1884. 



Taronas-hadai ( T'd^rd nas :had'd^i, 

 ' copper house people ' ) . Given bv Boas 

 (5th Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 27," 1889) 

 as the nameol a subdivision of the Yaku- 

 lanas, a Haida family of the Raven clan 

 in Alaska. It in reality refers only to a 

 house name, td^go naas, belonging to that 

 family. 



Tarpon. A name, variously spelled, 

 for a game-fish {Megalops atlantkus) of 

 the warmer waters of the Atlantic, and 

 which has extended to an East Indian 

 species. The name, which does not be- 

 long to any Indian language of the United 

 States, although the contrary has been 

 inferred, appears for the first time in 

 Ligon's History of Barbadoes (1673), and 

 is well known in .some of its forms in 

 Guiana and Central America, (w. r. g.) 



Tarrypin. See Terrapin. 



Tarsia. A former settlement of e. 

 Greenland Eskimo of the southern 

 group. — Meddelelser om Gronland, xxv, 

 28, 1902. 



Tarthem. A Salish band formerly under 

 Eraser superintendency, Brit. Col. — Can. 

 Ind. Aff., 79, 1878. 



Tasagi's Band. One of the two divisions 

 of the Wahpekute. They had a village 

 of 550 persons on Des Moines r. in 1836. 

 Tah sau gaa.— Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, in, t>12, 

 1853. Tasagi's band.— Flandreau in Minn. Hist. 

 See. Coll., 111,387, 1880. 



Tasaning. An unidentified tribe, or 

 possibly a band, named after a chief, that 

 sided with the English in the French and 

 Indian war. — Doc. of 1756 quoted by 

 Rupp, Northampton Co., 106, 1845. 



Tasawiks {Tdsawlks). A Paloos village 

 on the N. bank of Snake r., about 15 m. 

 above its mouth, in s. e. Washington. — 

 Mooneyin 14th Rep. B. A. E., 735, 1896. 



Tascalusa. A powerful chief, appar- 

 ently of the ancient Alibamu tribe, who 

 commanded the Indians against the Span- 

 iards of De Soto's army in the battle of 

 Mabila, Oct. 18, 1540, "described by the 

 historian Bancroft as probably the great- 

 est Indian battle ever fought within the 

 United States. The name signifies * Black 

 Warrior', from Choctaw and Alibamu 

 ta.sA,'a ' warrior,' lusa 'black.' It occurs 

 also as Taszaluza, Tascaluga, Tastaluca, 

 andTuscaluca, and is perpetuated in Black 

 Warrior r. and Tuscaloosa town, Ala. 

 He is described by the historians of the 

 expedition, at his first meeting with De 

 Soto, as very tall and strongly built, 

 symmetrical and handsome in appear- 

 ance, with an air of haughty dignity, 

 seated upon a raised platform with his 

 son beside him and his principal men 

 around, one of whom held erect a sort of 

 banner of deerskin curiously painted. 

 His head was covered with a turban in the 

 fashion of the Gulf tribes, and over his 

 shoulders was thrown a feather mantle 

 which reached to his feet. He looked 



