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TETES PELEES TETON 



iB. A. E. 



(1736) gives them and the Abittibi as 

 totems the pheasant and the eagle. They 

 have been reduced by smallpox and other 

 calamities to 208, living in 1908 on a reser- 

 vation on St Maurice r., in Champlain co., 

 Quebec. They seem to be closely cognate 

 with their western neighbors, the Nope- 

 ming (q. v.), with whom they are often 

 confounded, although apparently a dis- 

 tinct people. See Michacondibi, Michipi- 

 coten. (j. M. ) 



Algonquins a tetes de Boule.— Champignv (1692) in 

 X. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., IX. 535, 18.55. Big-heads.— 

 Donnelly in Can. Ind. Aff. Rep. 18S3, pt. i, 10, 

 1S84. Bullheads.— Colden (1727), Five Nations, 

 134, 1747. Gens des Terres.— Jes. Rel. 1071, 25, 1858. 

 Round Heads.— Durant (1721) in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., V, 5S9, 1855. Testes de boeufs.— La Chesnaye 

 (1697) in Margry, Dec, Vl, 6, 1>S86. Tetes de Boule.— 

 Chanvignerie (1736) quoted by Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribe.s, ni, 5.56, 1S53. 



Tetes Pelees (French: 'bald heads'). 

 Described by the Nipissing as a people 

 with little or no hair, who came into 

 Hudson bay in large wooden boats to 

 trade. Pc-^sibly some white traders. 



Testes Pelees.— Sagard (1636), Can., I, 227, 1886. 



Tetling. A Tenankutchin village, of 17 

 inhabitants in 1885, on upper Tanana 

 r., Alaska, where the outlet of Wagner 

 lake joins it in lat. 63° 30^ In 1898 it 

 consisted of 4 log houses. 

 Tetlings. — Lowe quoted by Baker, Geog. Diet. 

 Ala.ska, 1902. Tetling's village. — Allen, Rep. on 

 Alaska, 137. 1885. 



Teton (contr. of TUonwan, ' dwellers on 

 the prairie ' ) . The western and principal 

 division of the Dakota or Sioux, includ- 

 ing all the bands formerly ranging w. of 

 Missouri r., and now residing on reserva- 

 tions in South Dakota and North Dakota. 

 Thebandsofhcially recognized are. Oglala 

 of Pine Ridge agency; Brule of Rosebud 

 and Lower Brule agencies; Blackfoot, 

 Miniconjou, Sans Arc, and Two Kettle 

 of Cheyenne River agency; Hunkpapa, 

 etc., of Standing Rock agency. Their 

 history is interwoven with that of the 

 other Dakota and is little more than a 

 recountal of attacks on other tribes and 

 on border settlers and emigrants. They 

 were first met by Hennepin (1680) 20 or 

 30 leagues above the falls of St Anthony 

 in Minnesota, probablv at Sauk rapids, 

 on Mississippi r., about 70 m. above Min- 

 neapolis. He places them in the neigh- 

 borhood of Mi lie Lacs, far to the e. of 

 their later home. Lahontan also enu- 

 merates them among the tribes on the 

 upper Mississippi, which leads to the 

 conclusion that a part at least of the Teton 

 fcjrmerly lived in the prairie region, near 

 the upper Mississippi, though the main 

 body may have been near upper Minne- 

 sota r. Le Sueur in 1 700 included them in 

 the western Sioux, who lived between the 

 upper Mississippi and the Missouri On a 

 map of De Flsle (1701 ) L Traverse is sur- 

 rounded bv villages of wandering Teton. 

 Pachot (Margry, Dec , vi, 518, 1886) 

 located them 80 leagues w of the Falls of 



St Anthony in 1722. Carver (1766) met 

 at least a part of them at the extreme w. 

 point of his journey up Minnesota r., 

 about 200 m. from its mouth. The 

 younger Henrv (Coues, New Light, i, 

 145, 1897) found them in 1800 oi. the 

 upper Missouri, where Lewis and Clark 

 (Exped., I, 98, 100, 1893) encountered 

 them a few years afterward. These ex- 

 plorers enumerate as divisions: Tetons of 

 the Burnt Woods (Brules), about 300 men, 

 who rove on both sides of Missouri, White, 

 and Teton rs. ; Tetons Okandandas (Og- 

 lala), 150 men, who inhabit both sides of 

 the Missouri below Cheyenne r. ; Tetons 

 Minnekineazzo, about 250 men, on both 

 sides of the Missouri above Cheyenne r; 

 Tetons Saone, about 300 men, living on 

 both sides of Missouri r. below Beaver cr. 

 Gov. Ramsey said that they lived from 

 Cannonball r. s. to Niobrara r. (Rep. Ind. 

 Aff. 1849, 84, 1850). 



The Teton entered into a peace treaty 

 with the United States at Portage des 

 Sioux, Mo., in 1815, which was confirmed 

 by treaty of June 22, 1825, at Ft Lookout, 

 S. Dak. It was warriors of this group 

 who massacred Lieut. Grattan and his 

 party at Ft Laramie, Wyo., in 1854; none, 

 however, took part in the Minnesota mas- 

 sacre of 1862. In 1865 a commission con- 

 cluded treaties with each of the several 

 divisions of the group, with provision for 

 right of way through their territory. By 

 treaty of 1868 they first agreed to give up 

 their free range and come upon a reserva- 

 tion, including about all of South Dakota 

 w. of the Missouri r. Under their chiefs, 

 Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull, 

 they have been the principals in all the 

 Indian wars and outbreaks of the northern 

 plains, notably in 1864, 1876, and 1890. 



Gov. Ramsey characterizes the Teton as 

 a large, finely formed, tall, and vigorous 

 people, hardy, indomitable, and restless 

 warriors, daring horsemen, and skilful 

 hunters, possessing in perfection ' ' all the 

 Indian virtues of bravery, cunning, treach- 

 ery, and hospitality," true to each other 

 and ready foes to all others. 



Neill (Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., i, 258, 

 1872) says: "They are the plundering 

 Arabs of America, and have of late years 

 been a terror to the emigrants to the Pa- 

 cific coast.'' According to Lewis and 

 Clark the interior policing of a village was 

 confided to 2 or 3 officers who were named 

 by the chief for the purpose of preserving 

 order and remained in power some days, 

 till the chief appointed their successors. 

 These were always on the watch to keep 

 tranquillity during the day and guarded 

 the camp at night The short duration 

 of their office was compensated bv its 

 authority, their power being supreme, 

 and in the suppression of disturbance no 

 resistance to them was suffered; their 

 persons were sacred, and if m the execu- 



