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tanooga, Tenn. A third may have been 

 on Tuskegee cr. of Little Tennessee r., 

 near Robbinsville, Ciraham co., N. C. 

 The name belonged originally to a foreign 

 tribe which was incorporated partly with 

 the Cherokee and partly with the Creeks. 

 It would seem most probable that they 

 were of Muskhogean affinity, but it is 

 impossible to establish the fact, as they 

 have been long extinct, although there is 

 still a " white " or peace town among the 

 Creeks in Oklahoma, bearing their name. 

 In the townhouse of their settlement at 

 the mouth of the Tellico they had an up- 

 right pole, from the top of which hung 

 their protecting "medicine," the image 

 of a human figure cut from a cedar log. 

 For this reason the Cherokee sometimes 

 called the place A^tslna^-L'ta^un, ' Hang- 

 ing-cedar place.' Before the sale of the 

 land in 1819 they were so nearly extinct 

 that the Cherokee had moved in and oc- 

 cupied theground. The name is variously 

 written Teeskege, Tuscagee, Tuskegee, 

 etc.— Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 388, 

 389, 534, 1900. Cf. Tuskegee. 

 A'tsina'-k'ta'uii. — Mooney op. cit., 511 (' hanging 

 cedarplacf': a Cherokee name i. Tcskegee. — Tim- 

 berlake, Memoirs, miip, 1765 (just above the 

 mouth of Tellico). Tuskege. — Bartram.Trav., 37'2, 

 1792 (.synonym of Taskigi No. 1). Tusskegee.— Doc. 

 of 1799 quoted by Rovce in 6th Rep. B. A. E., 144. 

 1887. 



Tasquaringa. A Tepehuane pueblo 

 about 15 leagues from Durango, Mexico. 

 Though a few Mexicans live among them, 

 the inhabitants are little affected by 

 civilization. — Lumholtz, Unknown Mex., 

 I, 469, 1902. 



Tasqui. — Mentioned by Juan delaVan- 

 dera (Smith,_Colec. Dor. Fla., 18,1859) 

 as a village visited by Juan Pardo in 1557; 

 situated two days' journey from Tasqui- 

 qui, identified with Tuskegee, Ala. It 

 was probably inhabited by the Creeks. 



Tasqui. A former important village of 

 the Tuscarora of North Carolina, situated 

 in 1711 a day's journey from Cotechna 

 on the way to Ratoway, which was prob- 

 ably Nottoway village. At that time 

 Tasqui was fortified with palisades; its 

 cabins stood in a circle within the line of 

 the palisades, and were neatly constructed 

 of bark. Within the circle was the as- 

 sembly place; it was here that the dele- 

 gate of Gov. Spotswood held a conference 

 with the Tuscarora chiefs from Cotechna 

 regarding the freeilom of DeOraffenried, 

 who was held a prisoner by the Tusca- 

 rora. See Fasqui. (.i. n. b. h. ) 

 Pasqui.— De Graffenried in N. C. Col. Rec, i, 937, 

 1886. 



Tassinong. A former village, probably 

 of the Potawatomi, in Porter co., Ind., 

 near the present town of the same name. — 

 Hough in Indiana Geol. Rep., map, 1883. 



Tastaluca. See Tascalusa. 



Tasnnmatunne. A Chastacosta village 

 in the Rogue r. country, w. Oreg. 



Ta'-sun-ma' ^unne, — Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk- 

 lore, HI, 234, 1890. 



Taszaluza. See Tascalusa. 



Tatagua. A tribe, numbering 231 in 

 1862, mentioned by Wentworth as on Ft 

 Tejon res. in s. central California, ind 

 also by Taylor in 1863 (Cal. Farmer, 

 May 8, 1863) as of uncertain location. 

 They can not be satisfactorily identified, 

 but were a division either of the Yokuts, 

 the Chumash, or the Shoshoneans. 



Laguna.— Wentworth in Ind. Aff. Rep., 325, 1862. 

 Tatagua. — Ibid. 



Tatankachesli ( ' dung of a buffalo bull ' ) . 

 A band of the Sans Arcs Sioux. 

 Tatagka cesli.— Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 219, 

 1897. Tataiika-tcesli.— Ibid. 



Tatapowis. A town of the Wiweakam 

 and Komoyue, gentes of the Lekwiltok, 

 situated on Hoskyn inlet, Brit. Col. 

 Ta-ta-pow-is. — Dawsoli in Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., 

 sec. II, 65, 1887. 



Tatarrax. A chief mentioned by Go- 

 mara(Hist. Gen. Indias, cap. ccxiii, 1553) 

 in connection with Coronado's expedition 

 to Quivira. He is believed to have been 

 the same as the chief of the province of 

 Harahey, identified as the Pawnee coun- 

 try, who, pursuant to a summons from 

 Coronado while at Quivira, evidently on 

 Kansas r., Kans., late in tlie summer of 

 1541, visited the Spaniards with 200 war- 

 riors armed with bows and "some sort 

 of things on their heads," seemingly re- 

 ferring to the Pawnee mode of hair dress- 

 ing. If the two are identical, Tatarrax 

 is described as "a big Indian with large 

 body and limbs, and well proportioned 

 ( Winshipin 14th Rep. B. A. E., 492,590. 

 1896). A monument was erected to his 

 memory by the Quivira Historical Society 

 at Manhattan, Kans., in thespringof 1905. 

 Humboldt (New Spain, ir, 324, 1811), 

 probably from early maps, erroneously 

 mentions Tatarrax as a kingdom "on the 

 banks of the lake of Teguayo, near the 

 Rio del Agujlar." (f. w. h.) 



Tateke ( TiVteqe). A Cowichan tribe on 

 Valdes id. (the second of the name), s. e. 

 of Vancouver id. and n. of Galiano id., 

 Brit. Col.; apparently identical with the 

 Lyacksun of the Canadian Indian reports. 

 Pop. 80 in 1909. 



Li-icks-sun.— Can. Ind. Aff , 308, 1879. lyach-sun.— 

 Ibid., 270, 1889. Lyacksum.— Ibid., pt. ll, 164, 1901. 

 lyacksun.— Ibid., 220, 1902. T'a'teqe.— Boas, MS., 

 B. A. E., 1887. ° ° 



Tatemy, Moses Fonda (alias Tadema, 

 Tattema, Titami, Totami, Old Moses, 

 Tundy). A famous Delaware chief, in- 

 terpreter and messenger for the Province 

 of Pennsylvania. He was born on the e. 

 side of the Delaware, somewhere near 

 Cranberry, N. J., in the latter part of the 

 17th century. He acted as an interpreter 

 for the English at an early date, as in 

 1737 he was given a tract of about 300 

 acres on Lehielrtan cr. (now Bushkillcr.), 

 near Stockertown, Northampton co., for 

 his various services to the province. He 



