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ward. All the various land disputes 

 came before the council (Walton, Conrad 

 Weiser, 372, 1900). 



The one particular dispute with which 

 Tedyuskung had to do was that of the 

 Walking Purchase, and after that the 

 right of the Iroquois to sell the lands of 

 the Delawares. The wily chiefs of the 

 Iroquois realized that the one thing for 

 them to do was to discredit Tedyuskung as 

 to his relation to them, and then break his 

 influence with the council of Pennsyl- 

 vania. One after another the chiefs 

 asked : ' ' Who made Tedyuskung the great 

 man that he has become?" They denied 

 that he had any authority from them and 

 asked where he had obtained it (Col. Rec. 

 Pa. , VIII, 190, 1852. ) When Gov. Denny 

 attempted to quiet the anger of these 

 Iroquois by explaining the situation, they 

 listened to him, but when Tedyuskung 

 arose to reply, one by one they left the 

 council room. It was a critical time, but 

 the conference finally ended in a treaty 

 of peace, which was ratified with the 

 western Indians at Pittsburg in 1759. 



Post's second mission to Kuskuski and 

 its complete success led to the evacuation 

 of Ft Duquesne by the French and the 

 occupancy of the Ohio by the English. 



In 1762 Tedyuskung went to Philadel- 

 phia, at which time the governor offered 

 him £400 as a present, if he would with- 

 draw his charge of fraud in the Walking 

 Purchase, which was a source of trouble 

 to the proprietors. The old chief said 

 that he himself had never made such a 

 charge, but that the French had told 

 them that the English had defrauded 

 them of their lands. The governor then 

 told him that if he would make this 

 statement public he would give him the 

 present. This was done. 



After all of his dealings with the gov- 

 ernor and the council of Pennsylvania 

 the last of the chiefs of the eastern Dela- 

 wares went to his home in Wyoming, 

 where in the spring of 1763 his house was 

 set on fire, during one of his drunken de- 

 bauches, and he was burned to death. 

 The perpetrators of this crime were in all 

 probability either of the Seneca or the 

 Mohawk tribe — more likely of the latter. 



The chief failing of this 'wise old Dela- 

 ware diplomat was his utter subjection to 

 the power of rum. His white allies did 

 little to help him in this regard. His 

 fondness for it was made use of on all oc- 

 casions. But, however great this failing, 

 he did much to assure success to the 

 English expedition under Gen. Forbes, 

 and to bring the Iroquois to a realization 

 that the Delawares were "no longer wom- 

 en, but men." He was the most virile 

 chief of the Delaware tribe during the 

 years of their subjugation to the Iroquois. 

 His efforts for peace, with Post's heroic 



endeavors, did much to win the Ohio 

 from French possession. Without the 

 work of these two men this result could 

 not have been accomplished without the 

 shedding of much blood. A monument to 

 Tedyuskung has been erected in Fair- 

 mount Park, Philadelphia. 



The name is recorded in various other 

 ways, including Deedjoskon, Detiuscung, 

 Tedeuscung, Tediuscung, Tediuskung, 

 Tedyuscung, Teedyuscung, Tydescung, 

 Tydeuscung. (g. p. d.) 



Teeakhaily Ekutapa. A former Choc- 

 taw village on lower Tombigbee r., Choc- 

 taw co., Ala. — Romans, Fla., 1,329,1775. 



Teenikashika ('those who became hu- 

 man beings by means of the buffalo ' ) . A 

 Quapaw gens. 



Buffalo gens.— Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 229, 

 1897. Te e'nikaci'Jia. — Ibid. 



Teepee. See Tipi. 



Tees-gitunai ( Tle'eagitqna^i, 'rocky-coast 

 eagles' ). A small branch of the Gituns of 

 Masset, n. coast of the Queen Charlotte 

 ids., Brit. Col. — Swanton, Cont. Haida, 

 275, 1905. 



Teeskan-lnagai ( Tle'es kun Inagd^-i, 

 'rocky -coast point -town people'). A 

 branch of a Haida family called Kuna- 

 lanas. They are named from the rocky 

 coast between Masset inlet and Virago 

 sd., Brit. Col., where they used to camp. 



T'es kunilnagai'.— Boas, 12th Rep. N. VV. Tribes 

 Can., 23, 1898. TIe'es kun Inaga'-i. — Swanton. 

 Cont. Haida, 270, 1905. 



Teesstlan-lnagai ( T/e^es sL.'an Inagd^-i, 

 'rocky-coast rear-town people' ). A sub- 

 division of the Stlenga-lanas, a great 

 Haida family of the Raven clan, named 

 from the coast between Masset inlet and 

 Virago sd., where they used to camp.-^ 

 Swanton, Cont. Haida, 271, 1905. 



Teeth. See Anatomy. 



Teeninge. A large prehistoric pueblo 

 ruin on top of the mesa on the s. side of Rio 

 Chama, about ^ m. from the river and 

 an equal distance below the mouth of Rio 

 Oso (Bear cr. ), in Rio Arriba co., N. Mex. 

 It was built of adobe, with foundation 

 walls strengthened by irregular blocks of 

 heavy black lava. Its ground-plan em- 

 braces two large rectangular courts. The 

 remains of ten circular kivas and one 

 shrine are to be seen in and about the 

 pueblo, but the walls are reduced to low 

 mounds. The settlement was undoubt- 

 edly of Tewa origin. (e. l. h.) 

 Teeuinge.— Hewett in Bull. 32, B. A. E., 34, 1906. 

 Te-e-uing-ge.— Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 

 58, 1892. 



Teeytraan. Mentioned as a pueblo of 

 the province of Atripuy (q. v.) in the re- 

 gion of the lower Rio "Grande, N. Mex., 

 in 1598.— Onate (1598) in Doc. Ined., xvi, 

 115, 1871. 



Tefaknak. A Magemiut Eskimo village 

 s. of the Yukon delta, Alaska; pop. 195 

 in 1890. 

 Tefaknaghamiut.— 11th Census, Alaska, 110,1893. 



