Title: Bulletin Identifier: bulletin3021910smit Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Subjects: Ethnology Publisher: Washington : G. P. O. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: 742 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

Text Appearing After Image: 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

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