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Cherokee County, N. C, the other about Tomotley Ford on Little 

 Tennessee River, Monroe County, Tenn. There are so many cases 

 of a northern and southern division of Creek tribes that it is prob- 

 able we have vestiges here of still another. 



Tamathli population, — The Spanish estimates of 1738 give 12 

 men in Old Tamathli and 26 in New Tamathli, but the French enum- 

 eration in 1750 includes only the former, supposed to have 10 men. 

 However, in 1822 Young's census of the Seminole, contained in 

 Morse's report to the Secretary of War, gives a total population in 

 this town of 220. 



TANGIPAHOA 



A tribe probably related to the Acolapissa and perhaps origi- 

 nally a part of them, whose home at the end of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury was on an affluent of Lake Pontchartrain which still bears their 

 name. Some may at one time have moved to the Mississippi since 

 La Salle, in 1682, found, on the east side of the river, 2 leagues be- 

 low the Quinipissa settlement, a town recently destroyed and partly 

 burned by enemies, which some said was named "Tangibao," though 

 others called it "Maheouala" or "Mahehoualaima." The remnants 

 of this tribe probably united, or reunited, with the Acolapissa. 



Tangipahoa population. — No separate figures are known. Mooney 

 estimates that in 1650 they and the Acolapissa together numbered 

 1,500; my estimate is of slightly over 1,000. 



TAPOSA 



A small tribe on the upper Yazoo, usually placed above the 

 Chakchiuma, though Iberville, who has the earliest mention of 

 them, seems to locate them below that tribe. They were evidently 

 a part either of the Chakchiuma or the Chickasaw. The De Crenay 

 map places them close to the Chakchiuma, and it is probable that 

 they finally united with that tribe and shared its fortunes. 



Taposa population. — They are usually enumerated with the Chak- 

 chiuma, and, in fact, the only separate figure is by Du Pratz, who 

 estimates the number of cabins at 25 against 50 for the Chakchiuma. 

 (See Chakchiuma.) 



TAWASA 



This tribe is first mentioned by the De Soto chroniclers under the 

 names Toasi and Tuasi, and the Spaniards seem to have found it 

 in 1540 approximately on the site of the present Montgomery, Ala. 

 Between that date and 1693 these people seem to have moved down 

 near the Tohome and Mobile and by 1706 had worked their way 

 toward the Apalachicola, probably to a point between that stream 



