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TUSKEGEE 



In 1540 De Soto passed through a town called Tasqui on or near Big 

 Canoe Creek in northern Alabama. In 1567 a soldier under Juan Pardo 

 visited this town again and found another nearby called Tasquiqui. 

 The latter certainly, and the former probably, belonged to the tribe 

 under discussion. When the English and French began to penetrate 

 this region, they found the Tuskegee divided into two bands, one of 

 which was said to be on an island in the Tennessee River and is evi- 

 dently that which ultimately united with the Cherokee and at one time 

 had a large town on the south side of Little Tennessee River, just above 

 the mouth of Tellico Creek. Another settlement bearing the name was 

 on the north bank of Tennessee River in a bend just below Chattanooga, 

 and Mooney thought that a third existed on Tuskegee Creek, on the 

 south bank of Little Tennessee River, north of Robbinsville, in Graham 

 County, N. C. The other division of this tribe ultimately settled at the 

 junction of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers. From early maps it is 

 evident that at least a part of this branch moved east to the Ocmulgee 

 River and later on lived for a time on the Chattahoochee. Finally, 

 however, they settled at the point above indicated and remained there, 

 or at least in the immediate neighborhood, until the Creeks moved west 

 of the Mississippi, when they formed a town in the southeastern part 

 of the new Creek territories. Later a portion moved northwest and 

 settled beyond Beggs, Okla., close to the Yuchi. 



Tuskegee population. — The French estimate of 1750 returned only 

 10 men, meaning warriors and capable hunters, from this town, but 

 that of 1760 gives 50, and the estimate of 1761 gives 40, including Coosa 

 Old Town. Taitt estimated 25 in 1772 and Marbury the same number 

 in 1792, while Hawkins in 1799 allows 35 "gunmen." The United 

 States census of 1832-33 returned a total population of 216. 



TUTELO 



This name was applied by the Iroquois to the Siouan tribes of 

 Virginia generally, and it is perhaps in this sense that we are to 

 understand the tribe which appears under it in a map of New Neth- 

 erlands dated 1614. They are located far down the Susquehanna 

 River. It was given specifically, however, to a tribe visited by Batts 

 and Fallam in 1671 near the site of Salem, Va., and it was from them 

 evidently that the Big Sandy was called River of the Tutelo on eigh- 

 teenth century maps. But by that time the tribe itself had removed 

 to an island in Roanoke River near the junction of the Staunton and 

 Dan. In 1701 Lawson learned that they were near the headwaters 

 of the Yadkin. Sometime afterward they moved eastward, along 

 with the Saponi, Occaneechi, Keyauwee, and Shakori, and crossed the 



