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THECHUNTUNNE THILANOTTINE 



[B. A. E. 



1755. Johnson sent him to Dr AVhee- 

 lock's charity school at Lebanon, Conn., 

 where he learned to speak and write 

 English, and acquired some knowledge 

 of general litej'ature and history. He 

 married the daughter of an Oneida chief 

 about 1765, and settled at Canajoharie, 

 where he joined the Episcoi)al Church 

 and for a time led a peaceful life. His 

 wife died in 1771, leaving a son and a 

 daughter; in the year following he mar- 

 ried his first wife's half-sister. He was 

 with Johnson in the Niagara expedition 

 of 1759, and took part in the Pontiac war 

 of 1763, fighting on the English side. 

 Having visited England in 1775, he re- 

 turned prepared to devote his energies to 

 the British cause in the Revolution, then 

 imminent. He was given a colonel's 

 commission by Gov. Carleton, and sullied 



THAYENDANEGEA (.JOSEPH BRANt). From a Painting by C. W. 

 Peale in the state house at Philadelphia. 



his name by taking an active part in the 

 massacre at Cherry valley and in the raid 

 that desolated Minisink, Orange co., in 

 1779. He was conspicuous in the battle 

 of Oriskany, Aug. 6, 1779, but was not 

 present at the massacre of Wyoming in 

 1778, as has been charged. After the 

 treaty of peace between Great Britain and 

 the United States in 1783, still retaining 

 his commission in the Briti.^h service and 

 drawing half pay, Brant was granted a 

 tract of land, 6 m. wide, on each side of 

 Grand r. , Ontario, on which he settled 

 with his Mohawk and other Iroijuois fol- 

 lowers, and continued to rule over them 

 until his death, Nov. 24, 1807. He was 

 thrice married; his second wife died child- 

 less, but by his third wife he had seven 

 children. His youngest son, John (Ah- 

 youwaighs), became chief of the Mohawk 



tribe through his mother, who was the 

 eldest daughter of the head chief of the 

 Turtle gens. His daughter Elizabeth 

 married William Johnson Kerr, grand- 

 son of Sir William Johnson. The last 

 survivor of the Brant children was Cath- 

 erine B. Johnson, who died in 1867. 

 Thayendanegea was buried near the 

 little church he had built on Grand r., 3 

 m. from Brantford, Ontario, and a monu- 

 ment placed over his grave bears the 

 inscription, "This tomb is erected to the 

 memory of Thayendanegea or Capt. 

 Joseph Brant, principal chief and warrior 

 of the Six Nations Indians, by his fellow- 

 subjects, admirers of his fidelity and at- 

 tachment to the British Crown." In 

 1879 the grave was desecrated and the 

 bones were stolen by a physician and 

 medical students, but most of them, in- 

 cluding the skull, were recently restored 

 to their former resting place. Consult 

 Stone, Life of Brant, 1864. (j. n. b. h.) 



Thechuntunne ('people at the foot of 

 the large rock ' ) . A former village of the 

 Tututni on the N. side of Rogue r., Oreg. 



Abraham Lincoln's village. — Dorsev in Jour. Am. 

 Folk-lore, lli. 233, ISyO. ^!e-tcun';unne.— Ibid. 

 Se-dj'fln'-tin tene'. — Everett, Tutu ^MS. vocab., 

 B. A. E., 1.S83 (trans, 'people by the rock land'). 

 Se-tcun' ^unne'. — Dorsey, op. cit. (Naltunnetunne 

 name). 



Thekkane ('mountain dwellers'). A 

 division of the Sekani living e. of the 

 Rocky mts. about Ft Halkett, Brit. Col., 

 in the region of the Nahane. 

 The-kka-'ne. — Petitot, Autourdulaedes Esclaves, 

 3(i2, 1891. Tso"-kr6ne.— Morice, letter, B. A. E., 

 1890. 



Theshtshini ( ' red streak ' ) . A Navaho 

 clan; apparently coordinate with the 

 Destchin of the Apache, 

 pestcini. — Matthews in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, iii, 

 103, 1890. Deitsini. — Matthews, Navaho Legends, 

 30, 1897. 



Thethlkhuttunne ( ' people at the smooth 

 rock ' ). A former Chastacosta village on 

 the N. side of Rogue r., Oreg. 

 pepl'-qut tiin'ne. — Dorsev in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, 

 ni, 233, 1890. 



Thetliotin. An unidentified division of 

 the TakuUi of British Columbia. 



Thetliantins. — Dcimeneeh, Deserts of N. Am., ll, 

 02, 1800. Thetliotin.— Hale, Ethnog. and Philol.. 

 202, 1846. Tketlcotins.— Domeneeh, op. cit., I, 444. 

 Thetsaken. A Squawmish village com- 

 munity on the E. side of Howe sd., Brit. 

 Col. 



?e'tsakEn.— Hill-Tout in Rep. Brit. A. A. S., 474, 

 1900. 



Thetuksem. A Squawmish village com- 

 munity on the w. side of Howe sd., Brit. 

 Col. 



Pe'tuksEm.— Hill-Tout in Rep. Brit. A. A. S.,474, 

 1900. 



Thetusum. A Squawmish village com- 

 munity on the w. side of Howe sd., Brit. 

 Col. 



ge'tusum.— Hill-Tout in Rep. Brit. A. A. S., 474, 

 1900. 



TMlanottine ( ' dwellers at the foot of 

 the head,' i. e. of the great glacier). An 

 Athapascan tribe of the Chipewyan group 



