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TENASKUH TENERACA 



[B. A. E. 



miles, in which at intervals snares are set. 

 In nianj^ respects the Tenankutchin re- 

 semble the Unakhotana, but are reputed 

 to be very fierce and warlike. A peculiar 

 drawling tone characterizes their speech, 

 distinguishing it from the Ahtena. Den- 

 talium nose ornaments were formerly 

 universally worn by the men, but of late 

 they are falling into disuse. These people 

 are much feared by the surrounding 

 tribes. They are supposed to have a 

 totemic system. Their population was 

 given by Richardson in 1851 as 100; by 

 Dall, 1870, 500; Petroff made it from 300 

 to 700 in 1880; Allen estimated the pop- 

 ulation in 1885 at 600; the 11th Census 

 (1890) gave it as 373. Divisions of the 

 tribe are Clatchotin, Huntlatin, Nabesna- 

 tana, Nukluktana, Nutzotin, Santotin, and 

 Tolwatin. The villages Nandell and Tet- 

 ling belong to the Nutzotin. In the lower 

 river is Tutlut; at the mouth of the Ta- 

 nana is Weare, and at the mouth of the 

 Tozi is Tozikakat. Nuklukayet, the mart 

 of other tribes also, is in their territory. 

 Khiltats is one of the winter villages. 

 Gens de butte.— Whymper, Alaska, 255, 1869. Gens 

 des Buttes. — Ross, MS. notes on Tinne, B. A. E, 

 (so called by the Hudson Bay men at Ft Yukon) 

 Mountain Indians. — Ibid. Mountain Men. — Dall in 

 Proe. A. A. A. S., 270, 1870. Tananas.— Whymper 

 Alaska, 240, 1869. Tananatana.— Allen, Rep., 137 

 1887. Tanan-Kuttchin.— Petitot, Diet. Denfe-Din 

 dji6, XX, 1876. Tanna-kutchi. — Richardson, Arct 

 Exped., I. 398, 1851 (trans, 'people of the bluffs') 

 Ta-non Kutchin.— Ross, quoted by Gibbs, MS., B 



A. E. Ta-nun kutch-in. — Ross, MS. notes on Tinne 



B. A. E. (trans, 'people of the biggest-river coun 

 try'). Tenan kutchin. — Whvmper, Alaska, 239, 

 1869 Tenan'-kut-chin'.— Dail in Cont. N. A 

 Ethnol., I, '29, 1877. Tennankutchin.— Petroff in 

 10th Census, Alaska, 161, 1884. Tennan-tnu-kokh 

 tana. — Ibid, ('mountain river men': Knaiakho 

 tana, name). Tpananse-Kouttchin. — Petitot, Au 

 tour du lac des Esclaves, 361, 1891. Tpanata 

 Kuttchin\— Petitot, MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1865, 

 Tschinkaten. — Wrangell quoted by Dall in Cont 

 N. A. Ethnol., i, 29, 1877 (' hairy men'). Zanana.— 

 Whymper quoted by Wood, Unciv. Races, ii, 1375, 

 1870. 



Tenaskuh ( Ten-as-kuh) . A Koprino 

 Koskimo village in Koprino harbor, n. 

 side of Quatsino sd., Vancouver id., Brit. 

 Col. — Dawson in Can. Geol. Surv., map, 

 1887. 



Tenate ( Te-nd-ate, from ten-ne, ' hone- 

 stone' ). A summer or fall village of the 

 Quatsino on the n. shore of Forward inlet, 

 w. coast of Vancouver id., Brit. Col. — 

 Dawson in Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., v, sec. 

 II, 68, 1887. 



Tenawa {Tena^wa,iromti^ndw' , 'down- 

 stream ' ) . A division of the Comanche, 

 practically exterminated in a battle with 

 the Mexicans about 1845, and now ex- 

 tinct. 



Le-nay-wosh.— Butler and Lewis (1846) in H. R. 

 Doc. 76, '29th Cong., 2d sess., 6, 1847. Ta-nah-wee.— 

 Smithson. Misc. Coll., ii, 3d art., 54, 1852. Tanewa- 

 Comanehes.— Alvord (1868) in Sen. Ex. Doc. 18, 

 40th Cong., 3d sess., 37, 1869. Tanewahs.— Ibid., 

 10. Te'nahwit.— Mooney, in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 

 1045,1896. Tena'wa.— Ibid, (correct forms). Ten- 

 awa.— Burnet quoted by Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, 

 1, 230, 1853. Tenewa.— ten Kate, Reizen in N. A., 



384, 1885. Tenewas,— Hazen (1868) in Sen. Ex. 

 Doc. 18, 40th Cong., 3d se.ss., 17, 1869. Tenhuas.— 

 BoUaert in Jour. Ethnol. Soc. Lond.,ii, 265, 1850. 

 Tennawas. — Marey, Army Life, 43, 1866. Tenuha. — 

 Bollaert quoted by Latham in Trans. Philol. Soc. 

 Lond., 102, 1856. 



Tendoy. Chief of a band of mixed Ban- 

 nock, Shoshoni, and Tukuarika Indians 

 making their headquarters in the Lemhi 

 valley, Idaho; best known through his 

 friendly attitude toward the whites. 

 About 1869, the attention of the Govern- 

 ment having been called to the miserable 

 condition of these Indians, they were 

 found on investigation to be almost desti- 

 tute, but Tendoy had been able to im- 

 prove the condition of himself and a few 

 of his followers by his sagacity in trade 

 with the settlers in the mining camps of 

 Montana, which he frequently visited. 

 On the establishment of an Indian agency 

 in Lemhi valley the Indians promised 

 obedience to the agent and friendliness 

 toward the settlers, and owing to the in- 

 fluence of Tendoy these promises were 

 kept inviolate. He rendered valuable 

 service to settlers by protecting them 

 from roving bands of unfriendly Indians, 

 and through his influence no white per- 

 son in the Lemhi valley was molested 

 during the Nez Perce war. In 1878 the 

 agent reported that some of the Indians 

 would doubtless join the hostiles, "but 

 are held in check by Tendoy, who ap- 

 pears to have proven himself master of 

 the situation." Some of the Indians 

 with whom he associated in the buffalo 

 country advised him to steal horses and 

 kill a few whites, when the authorities 

 at Washington would think more of him 

 and grant his people a larger appropria- 

 tion. To this he is said to have replied, 

 "I have not the blood of a white man in 

 my camp, nor do I intend such." Ten- 

 doy died on the Lemhi reservation May 9, 

 1907. The settlers, in appreciation of his 

 services, subscribed funds toward the 

 erection of a monument to his memory, 

 and a tract of land containing a number 

 of other Indian graves was set apart for 

 his burial place. (f. s. n. ) 



Teneangopti, Teneangpote. See Kicking 

 Bird. 



Teneii {Te^nedi, 'bark-house people'). 

 A branch of theTihittan living atKlawak, 

 Alaska. (j. r. s.) 



Teneinamar. A former tribe in the vi- 

 cinity of the lower Rio Grande, Texas, 

 spoken of in connection with the Pinanaca 

 and Siaeher. Perhaps identical with the 

 Taimamares, elsewhere referred to. — Fer- 

 nando del Bosque (1675) in Nat. Geog. 

 Mag., XIV, 344, 1903. 



Teneraca. A Tepehuane pueblo situated 

 in a deep gorge of Mezquital r., in s. Du- 

 rango, Mexico. It is under the mission- 

 ary jurisdiction of Mezquital. — Lumholtz 

 Unknown Mexico, i, 469, 1902. 



