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by flapping their wings and the Hghtning 

 by opening and closing their eyes. The 

 great downpour which generally accom- 

 panies thunder was often accounted for 

 by supposing that the bird carries a lake 

 of fresli water on its ba(^k. The Mandan 

 supposed that it was because the thun- 

 derbird broke tlirough the clouds, the 

 bottom of the skyey reservoir (Maxi- 

 milian, Trav., 861, 1843). Sometimes 

 only one thunderbird is spoken of, and 

 sometimes a family of tliem, or else sev- 

 eral adults of different colors. Al- 

 though the species of thisbiid is often 

 quite indefinite, on the n. Pacific coast 

 it is conceived of as similar to, if not 

 identical with, a large hawk found in the 

 high mountains, while other people lik- 

 ened it to an eagle, and the Ntlakyapamuk 

 of British Columbia thought it resembled 

 a grouse. On the plains a thunder- 

 storm was supposed to be due to a con- 

 test between the thunderbird and a huge 

 rattlesnake, or an underground or sub- 

 aqueous monster — called Unktehi by the 

 Dakota — and certain writers have unwar- 

 rantably deduced a mystic significance 

 from this, such as the war between light 

 and darkness or good and evil. On the 

 N. Pacific coast a thunderbird was sup- 

 posed to be catching whales during a 

 thunderstorm, and persons profess to 

 have seen whales dropped into trees with 

 the marks of talons on them. According 

 to the Ntlakyapannik the thunderbird 

 uses its wings as a bow to shoot arrows. 

 "The rebound of his wings in the air, 

 after shooting, makes the thunder. For 

 this reason thunder is heard in different 

 parts of the sky at once, being the noise 

 from each wing. The arrowheads fired 

 by the thunder are found in many parts 

 of the country. They are of black stone 

 and of very large size " (TeitinMem. Am. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., ii, 338, 1900). The 

 thunderbird was naturally held in awe, 

 and a person who had been struck by 

 lightning and recovered became an effi- 

 cient shaman. (j. r. s. ) 



Thur {Thur). The Sun clan of the 

 Tigua pueblo of Isleta, N. Mex. 

 T'hur-t'ainin. — Lnmmis quoted bv Hodge in Am. 

 Anthr., ix, 352, 1S96 (t'ainin = 'people'). 



Tiaks (refers to a point in the river). 

 A village of the Upper Fraser band of 

 Ntlakyapamuk at Fosters Bar, e. side of 

 Fraser r., 28 m. above Lytton, Brit. Col. 

 Fosters Bar.— White man's name. Tia'ks. — Teit 

 in Mem. Am. Mu.';. Nat. Hist., ii, 172, 1900. 



Tianto. A former village, possibly of 

 the Quapaw, in Arkansas, s. of Arkansas 

 r.,_ near and apparently under the do- 

 minion of Anilco. It was visited by 

 De Soto's expedition in 1542. 



Tiatiuk. A Chnagmiut Eskimo village 

 in the Yukon delta, Alaska. 

 Tee-atee-6gemut.— Dall, Alaska, 264, 1870 (the in- 

 habitants). 



Tibahagna. A former Gabrieleno ran- 

 cheria in Los Angeles co., Cal., at a lo- 

 cality later called Serritos. — Reid (1852) 

 quoted by Tavlor in Cal. Farmer, June 8, 

 1860. 



Tibideguachi. A former Opata pueblo 

 in extren)e n. e. Sonora, Mexico, con- 

 taining 214 inhabitants in 1678. Prob- 

 ably abandoned before 1730, as it is not 

 mentioned by Rivera. 



Santa Rosa de Tibidequatzi. — Zapata (1()78) in 

 Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th s., Ill, 369, 1857. Sta Rosa 

 Tibideguachi. — Zapata cited by Bancroft, No. 

 Mex. States, i, 24ti, 1884. 



Tidendaye ('strangers'). A clan or 

 band of the Chiricahua (Bourke in Jour. 

 Am. Folk-lore, iii, 115, 1890), composed 

 of descendants of Mexicans and Piman 

 Indians, particularly Opata, with whom 

 at different times the Chiricahua lived on 

 terms of peace at Baseraca, Babispe, and 

 Janos, in Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico. 

 They are coordinate with the Nakaydi of 

 the White Mountain Apache and the 

 Nakai of the Navaho. 



Nindahe. — Bourke in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, in, 

 115, 1890. Tidendaye.— Ibid. 



Tiekwachi. A Siuslaw village on Sius- 

 law r., Oreg. 

 T'i-e'-kwa-tc'i. — Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, 



in, 230, 1890. 



Tiengak. A Magemiut Eskimo village 

 onKvichavak r., Alaska; pop. 60 in 1890. 



Tiengaghamiut.— 11th Census, Alaska, 111, 1S93. 



Tientien ( ' friends ' ? ) . A small Wintun 

 tribe said by Powers to have lived in the 

 region from Douglas City or its vicinity 

 to Hay fork of Trinity r.. Trinity co., Cal. 

 Ti-en'-Ti-en'. — Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., in, 

 230, 1877. 



Tietiquaquo. A former settlement, ap- 

 parently in what is now s. w. Arkansas, 

 near Atiamque, through which the De Soto 

 expedition passed in 1542. Its inhabit- 

 ants probably belonged to the Caddoan 

 family. 



Tigalda. A former Aleut village on Ti- 

 galda, one of the e. Aleutian ids., Alaska; 

 pop. 91 in 1833. 



Teegaldenskoi.— Elliot, Cond. An. Alaska. 225, 1875. 

 Tigaldinskoe. — Veniaminoff, Zapiski, ii, 203, 1840. 

 Tigikpuk ('|)eople living at the base of 

 a volcano ' : Kaniagmiut name) . An un- 

 identified division of the Knaiakhotana 

 of Cook inlet, Alaska. 



Ti-gi-qpuk'.— Hoffman, Kadiak MS., B. A. E., 

 1882. 



Tiglabu ('drums in his own lodge'). 

 A band of the Brule Teton Sioux. 

 Ti-glabu.— Cleveland quoted by Dorsey in 1.5th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 219, 1897. 



Tigshelde. A Kaiyuhkhotana village 

 on Innoko r., Alaska. 



Tigchelde'.— Zagoskin in Nouv. Ann. Vov., 5th s., 

 XXI. map, 18.50. Tizhgelede.— TikhmeniefT (1861) 

 quoted by Baker, Geog. Diet. Alaska, 365, 1901. 



Tigua (Spanish form of Wtrcni, ]>!. Ti- 

 wes¥ (Span. Tiguex), their own name). 

 A group of Pueblo tribes comprising 

 three geographic divisions, one occupying 

 Taos and Picuris (the most northerly of 

 the New Mexican pueblos) on the upper 



