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TSISHUSINDTSAKDHE TSKOAKKANE 



[B. A. E. 



Apache soon after the attempted visit of 

 the friar. ( f. w. h. ) 



Cipias.— Barcia, Ensayo, 199, 1723. Tcipiya.— 

 Pewkes in 22d Rep. B. A. E., 23, 1904 (Hop! 

 name). Tsipiakwe.— Cashing in 13th Rep. B. A. 

 E., 328, 1896 (^-iwe^ 'people'). Tzip-iaKue.— Ban- 

 delier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 381, 1892. Zipias. — 

 Vetancurt (1696), Menologia, 63, 1871. Zippia- 

 Kue.— Bandelier in Jour. Am. Eth. and Arch., ill, 

 97, 1892. 



Tsishusindtsakdhe ( ' Tsishu wearing a 

 tail of hair on the head ' ). The first gens 

 on the Tsishu, or left, side of the Osage 

 tribal circle. 



lock-wearer.— Dorsey in Am. Nat., xviii, 115, 1884. 

 Sni^saHjSe. — Dorsey, Osage MS. voeab., B. A. E., 

 1883. Tsiou Simsajifle. — Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. 

 E., 233, 1897. Tsiou Wanu"'.— Ibid. (=' elder 

 Tshishu,' another name). 



Tsishuutsepedhungpa. One of the three 

 divisions of the Osage. 



Chee'-zhoo.— Dorsey in Am. Nat., xviii, 113, 1884 

 (pronunciation). Tsi'ou ui^se pef!ii°da. — Dorsey in 

 15th Rep. B. A. E., 233, 1897. 



Tsishuwashtake ( 'Tsishu peacemakers '). 

 The leading gens on the left, or Tsishu, 

 side of the O.sage tribal circle. 

 Chee-zhoo peace-makers. — Dorsey in Am. Nat., 

 XVIII, 113, 1884. Ni'wa0e.— Dorsey in 15th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 233, 1897 ('giver of life' ). Red eagle.— 

 Dorsev in Am. Nat., xviii, 113, 1884. Ta^'wa" 

 Ha'xe.— Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 233, 1897 

 (' village maker ' ) . Tsi'ou Waota'iie. — Ibid. 



Tsiskwahi {Tsiskwd^M, 'bird place,' 

 from AnV-Tsi^skwa, 'Bird people,' a 

 Cherokee clan). One of the 5 dis- 

 tricts or "towns" which William H. 

 Thomas, in his capacity of agent for the 

 Eastern Cherokee, laid off on the East 

 Cherokee res., in Swain co., N. C, after 

 the removal of the rest of the tribe to In- 

 dian Ter. in 1838. The name ie still re- 

 tained, (j. M. ) 

 Bird town.— Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 161, 509, 

 1900 (common name). Tsiskwa'hi. — Ibid. (Chero- 

 kee name). 



Tsisli. A village of the Tatshiautin at 

 the mouth of Tatlah r., Brit. Col., con- 

 nected with Tsisthainli. — Can. Ind. Aff., 

 213, 1902. 



Tsistetsiyi ( TsistetsVyl, ' mouse place ' ). 

 A former Cherokee settlement on South 

 Mouse cr., a branch of Hiwassee r., in 

 Bradley co., Tenn. The present town of 

 Cleveland, on the same creek, is known 

 to the Cherokee by the same name. — 

 Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 537, 1900. 



Tsisthainli. A Tatshiautin village on 

 Lac Trembleur, Brit. Col.; pop. 13 in 

 1902, 22 in 1910. 



Tsistiks {Tst-stiks^, 'little birds'). A 

 society of the Ikunuhkahtsi, or All Com- 

 rades, in the Piegan tribe of the Siksika. 

 It includes boys from 15 to 20 years of 

 age. — Grinnell, Blackfoot Lodge Tales, 

 221, 1892. 



TsistTiy i {Tsistu^yl,, ' rabbit place ') . A 

 former Cherokee settlement on the n. 

 bank of Hiwassee r., at the entrance of 

 Chestua cr., in Polk co., Tenn. In the 

 Proceedings of the Board of Commis- 

 sioners dealing with the Indian Trade in 

 South Carolina (87, 92-93, MS. in the 



State Archives at Columbia) a Yuchi 

 town called Chestowee, or Chestoowa, is 

 said to have been cutoff by the Cherokee 

 in 1714 either in revenge for the murder 

 of a Cherokee or at the instigation of 

 some English traders. 



Cheestooyee.— McKennevand Hall, Ind. Tribes, ii, 

 80, 1858. Chestoowa.— MS., op. cit.,1714. Ches- 

 towa. — Ibid. Chestuee. — Doc. of 1799 quoted by 

 Royce in 5th Rep. B. A. E., 144, 1887. Tsistu'yi.— 

 Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., .538, 1900. 



Tsitoklinotin. A part of the Hankutchin 

 living near the mouth of Forty-mile cr., 

 on Yukon r., Brit. Col. 



Tcu-Kutchi.— Richardson, .Arctic Exped., I, 397, 

 1851 ('people of the water'). Tabn-Kutshi.— 

 Latham in Trans. Philol. Soc. Lond.. 67, 1856. 

 Tsit-o-klin-otin. — Dawson in Rep. Geol. Surv. Can. 

 1888, 202b, 1889. 



Tsits. The Water clans of the Keresan 

 pueblos of Laguna, Acoma, Sia, San 

 Felipe, and Cochiti, N. Mex. The Water 

 clan of Laguna, which claims to have 

 come originally from Acoma, forms a 

 phratry with the Kurtsi (Antelope) clan. 

 The corresponding clan of Acoma also 

 forms a phratry with the Antelope clan 

 of that village. The Cochiti Water clan 

 was almost extinct in 1895. (f. w. h. ) 

 Sits-hano'^t.— Hodge in Am. Anthr., ix, 352, 1896 

 (Laguna form). Tsits-hano. — Ibid. (San Felipe 

 form; /«1ho= ' people'). Tsi'ts-hano. — Ibid. (Sia 

 form ) . Tsits-hanoqc'i.— Hodge, field notes, B. A. E., 

 1895. Tsits-hanuch.— Ibid. ( Cochiti form ) . Tzitz 

 hanutch.— Bandelier, Delight Makers, 28, 1890 

 (Cochiti form). 



Tsitsakwich. A modern Clallam village 

 on Dungeness Spit, Wash., 2 or 3 m. w. 

 of the old town of Stehtlum. This proba- 

 bly contains the 100 people said by Eells 

 to have lived about Jamestown in 1886. 

 Tsi-tsa-kwitc— Eells, letter, B. A. E., May 21,1886. 



Tsitsi. A former village of the Ntsha- 

 autin of British Columbia. — Morice in 

 Trans. Can. Inst., iv, 25, 1895. 



Tsitsimelekala {Ts'itslme^lEqala, 'the 

 Tsime^lEqalas' ). A gens of the Nakoak- 

 tok, a Kwakiutl tribe. — Boas in Rep. 

 Nat. Mus. 1895, 329, 1897. 



Tsitualaqumae (Tsitualaqumde) . The 

 name of an ancestor of a Tlauitsis gens; 

 also sometimes given to the gens itself. — 

 Boas in Petermanns Mitteil., pt. 5, 130, 

 1887. 



Tsiyahi {Tsiyd'M, ' otter place ') . The 

 name of several Cherokee settlements: 

 (1) a former village on a branch of Keowee 

 r., near the present Cheohee, Oconee co., 

 S. C. ; (2) a still existing settlement of 

 the Eastern Cherokee on Cheowa r., 

 about Robbinsville, Graham CO., N. C. ; 

 (3) a former settlement in Cades cove, 

 on Cove cr., Blount co., Tenn. (j. m.) 

 Cheeowhee.— Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 538, 

 1900. Cheowa.— Ibid. Chewe.— Bartram, Travels, 

 371, 1792. Chewohe. — Mooney, op. cit. 



Tskoakkane {Tsxoaxqd^ne). A Bella- 

 coola village on Bellacoola r., Brit. Col., 

 above Nukaakmats. 



TsQoaQka'ne.— Boas in 7th Rep. N. W. TribesCan., 

 3, 1891. Tsxoaxqa'ne. — Boas in Mem. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., II, 49, 1898. 



