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[B. A. E. 



said that many persons who were ill have 

 been healed through invoking her inter- 

 cession in their behalf, and that many 

 striking visions and revelations have taken 

 place at her tomb. There is a memorial 

 cross bearing an inscription at Auries- 

 ville, N. Y., and at St Joseph's Seminary, 

 Dunwoodie, N. Y., a statue stands in 

 memory of her. Until 1888 a tall mission 

 cross marked her burial place, but in that 

 year the Rev. C. A. Walworth, of Albany,^ 

 N. Y., erected near it a large granite sar- 

 cophagus, bearing the legend in native 

 words, "A beautiful flower, it has blos- 

 somed among native men." Consult 

 Chauchetiere, Vie de Catherine Tega- 

 kouita, 1887, and Ellen H. Walworth in 

 The Indian Sentinel, 1908. ( J. n. b. h. ) 



Tekanitli (pi. olkanitti, 'bed,' provin- 

 cially known as 'cabin,' or 'cabbin,' 

 by early traders and colonists) . A Cher- 

 okee settlement, commonly known to the 

 whites as Tickanetly, or Cabbins, in up- 

 per Georgia, about the period of the re- 

 moval of the tribe in 1839. (j. m.) 

 Cabben,— Doc. of 1799 quoted by RoyceinSth Rep. 

 B. A. E., 144, 1887. 



Tekep. A Chumashan village formerly 

 near Santa Ines mission, Santa Barbara 

 CO., Cal.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Oct. 18, 

 1861. 



Tekisedaneyout ('place of the hanging 

 bell.'— Morgan). A Seneca village, com- 

 monly known as Red Jacket Village, 

 formerly in Erie co., N. Y. 

 Red Jacket Village.— Morgan, League Iroq., 466, 

 1851. Te-kise'-da-ne-yout.— Ibid. 



Tekoedi ('people of Tek,' an island 

 near the n. end of Prince of Wales id. ). 

 A Tlingit division belonging to the Wolf 

 (or Eagle) phratry and living at Tongas, 

 Sanva, and Killisnoo, Alaska, 

 tekuedi.— Krause, Tlinkit Ind., 120, 1885. teku- 

 edi.— Ibid., 118. Te'qoedi.— Swan ton, field notes, 

 B. A. E., 1904. 



Tekta. A Yurok village on Klamath 

 r., 3 m. below Klamath P. O., n. w. Cal. 



Tekumigizhik. See Tikumigizhik. 



Tekunratum ( Te-kunr-a-tum ) . A former 

 Okinagan band at the mouth of Okina- 

 kane r.. Wash. — Stevens in Ind. Aff. Rep,, 

 445, 1854. 



Telamene. An unidentified tribe or 

 village of which Joutel (Margry, D^c, 

 III, 288, 1878) learned from the Indians 

 (probably Karankawa) near Matagorda 

 bay, Texas, as being n. e. of Maligne 

 (Colorado) r. 



Tetamenes,— Joutel (1687) in French, Hist. Coll. 

 La., I, 152, 1846. 



Telamni. A Yokuts (Mariposan) tribe 

 formerlv living on lower Kaweah r., Cal. 

 Powers' (Cont. N. A. Ethnol., in, 370, 

 1877) placed them 2 m. below Visalia. 

 They are said to have numbered 105 on 

 the Fresno res. in 1861, but are now 



extinct, 



Ta-lum-nes.— Johnston in Sen. Ex. Doc. 61, 32d 

 Cong., Istsess., 23, 1852. Tedamni.— A. L. Kroeber, 

 inf'n, 1903 (Yaudanchi name: sing. form). 



Telam.— Beaumont MS. cited by Coues, Garc6s 

 Diary (1775-76), 289, 1900 ("TeMm 6 Torim"; cf. 

 Telamotcris below). Telame. — Mofras quoted by 

 Shea in Sitjar, Vocab. of San Antonio Mission, 

 pref ace , 1 861 . Telamoteris. — Garces ( 1775-76 ) , Dia- 

 ry, 289, 1900 (probably identical). Tel-emnies. — 

 Lewis in Ind. Aff. Re"p. 1857, 400, 1858. Te-lum- 

 ni.— Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., in, 370, 1877. 

 Tiedami. — A. L. Kroeber, inf'n, 1903 (Yaudanchi 

 name: pi. form). To-lum-ne. — Rovce in 18th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 782, 1899. Torim.— Beaumont MS., op. cit. 



Telategmiut. A subdivision of the 

 Chnagmiut Eskimo of Alaska, whose vil- 

 lage is Tlatek.— Dall in Cont. N. A. 

 Ethnol., I, 17, 1877. 



Tellico ( Tdlikivd, of unknown significa- 

 tion) . The name of several Cherokee 

 settlements at different periods, viz: 

 (1) Great Telhco, at Tellico Plains, on 

 Tellico r., in Monroe co., Temi.; (2) Lit- 

 tle Tellico, on TeUico cr. of Little Ten- 

 nessee r., about 10 m. below Franklin, 

 in Macon co., N. C. ; (3) a town on Val- 

 ley r., about 5 m. above Murphy, in 

 Cherokee co., N. C; (4) Tahlequah 

 (q. v.), established as the capital of the 

 CherokeeNation,Okla.,inl839. (j. m. ) 

 Big Tellico. — Doc. of 1779 quoted by Royce in 5th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 144, 1887. Great Tellico.— Doc. of 

 1755, ibid., 142. Little Tellico.— Doc. of 1799, op. 

 cit. Little Telliquo,— Doc. of 1755, op. cit., 142. 

 Tellico,— Bartram, Travels, 371, 1792. 



Telmocresses. A former Lower Creek 

 town described as on the w. bank of 

 Chattahoochee r., 15 m. above the mouth 

 of Flint r., seemingly in Jackson co., 

 Fla. It contained 100 inhabitants about 

 the beginning of the 19th century. Young 

 (Morse, Rep. to Sec. War, 364, 1822) lists 

 it as a Seminole town, while Gat&chet 

 (Creek Migr. Leg., i, 71, 1884) regards the 

 name as a corruption of Taluamuchasi 

 (q. V. ) . See also Tuhibatchi Tallahassee. 



Telua-ateuna {Te' -lu-a A' -te-u-na 'those 

 of the easternmost' ). A phratry embra- 

 cing the Tona (Turkey) and Shohoita 

 (Deer) clans of the Zuiii. (f. h. c. ) 



Temalwahish ('the dry ground'). A 

 Kawia village in Cahuilla desert, s. Cal. 



La Mesa,— Barrows, Ethno.-Bot. Coahuilla Ind., 

 83, 1900. Temal-wa-hish.— Ibid. 



Temastian. A former settlement of the 

 Tepecano or of a related tribe, but early 

 in the 18th century it was occupied by 

 Tlaxcaltec, introduced by the Spaniards 

 for defense against the '"Chichimecs"; 

 situated about 10 m. e. of Askelton on the 

 Rio de Bolanos, in Jalisco, Mexico. — 

 Hrdlicka in Am. Authr., v, 409, 426, 

 1903. 



Temechic ('bread house.'^Och). A 

 Tarahumare settlement in central Chi- 

 huahua, Mexico, on or near the Santa 

 Cruz branch of Rio Conchos. 

 Temechic— Orozco y Berra, Geog., 323, 1864. 

 Temeichic— Och (1756), Journey to the Missions, 

 I, 71, 1809. 



Temecula. An important Luisefio vil- 

 lage in a valley of the same name in Riv- 

 erside CO., Cal. Pop. in 1865 said to be 

 388. Compelled to vacate their valley in 

 1875, its inhabitants moved to Pachanga 



