Native American Encyclopedia The-Other-Magpie To Zuni
4 The-Other-Magpie In the Battle of Rosebud Creek the Crow and Shoshone fought alongside the U S Army against the Sioux and Cheyenne The-Other-Magpie birth and death dates unknown was a female warrior of the Crow tribe In 1876 she fought in the Battle of Rosebud Creek against the Sioux and Cheyenne She joined the battle because a Sioux member killed her brother Unlike the other warriors who carried rifles she only carried a knife and her coup stick United States forced the Nez Perce to give up part of their homeland because gold had been discovered there Only one-third of the Nez Perce chiefs signed the Lapwai Treaty but the United States forced all the Nez Perce to move For this reason the Nez Perce named the Lapwai Treaty the Thief Treaty See also coup stick and Rosebud Creek Battle of Thief Treaty refers to the 1863 Lapwai Treaty Through this treaty the words to know decathlon dee-CATH-lon an athletic competition with ten different track and field events hydroelectricity HI-droe-ee-LEK-TRISS-eh-tee electricity generated by running water pentathlon pen-TATH-lon an athletic competition with five different track and field events Thorpe Grace 1921-2008 was the daughter of Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe and a member of Oklahoma’s Sac and Fox Nation In 1991 she became an antinuclear activist She convinced her tribe to refuse to allow the United States to store nuclear waste on their reservation She also supported alternative energy sources such as hydroelectricity solar power and wind power
Thorpe Jim 1888-1953 was a Sac and Fox Olympic athlete and professional baseball and basketball player He is considered by some prominent sports writers to be the greatest American athlete of the twentieth century He won gold medals in the Olympic pentathlon and decathlon Olympic officials took away his medals when they learned that he had been paid for playing minor league baseball before competing in the Olympics Olympic rules state that contestants cannot be paid athletes Thirty years after his death Olympic officials restored his medals Thunderbird 1866-1946 also known as Richard Davis Thunderbird was a Cheyenne actor who starred in many western movies from 1914 until 1944 He played the role of various Native Americans especially famous chiefs He starred in the well-known 1935 film entitled Annie Oakley He was born near Tongue River Montana and died in Los Angeles California Thundercloud Red 1919-1996 also known as Cromwell West and Carlos Westez pretended to be a member of the Catawba tribe from the Carolinas He was actually born to African-American parents in Rhode Island As a teenager he became interested in Native American history He learned the Catawba language claimed to be a medicine man and sold medicinal teas After his death Native American Timucua 5 experts discovered the truth about his ancestry Timucua was a Native American tribe from northeast Florida and southeast Georgia European disease and warfare with the Spanish and British wiped out most of this tribe The Timucua became extinct when its last known member died in 1767 Prior to European contact the Timucua lived in about 100 different villages Each village was ruled by a chief and had a large Council House used for village dances and meetings Families lived in circular huts that contained only one room Men wore loincloths Women wore loincloths and sashes made of moss Both men and women wore tattoos To show their importance chiefs wore many tattoos even around their lips Men and women wore long hair which they only cut to show grief for the death of a loved one Timucua men wore loincloths and the women wore clothing made of tree moss common in their region
6 Tionontati Tionontati also known as Petun was an Iroquoian speaking tribe from the Canadian province of Ontario They were closely related to the Hurons In the 1600s this tribe included two clans and nine villages They grew large fields of tobacco In 1616 the French visited them and called them the Petun which means Tobacco People In the 1630s European disease killed most of the tribe Survivors joined the Huron and moved to upper Michigan to escape their Iroquoian enemies The Huron and Tionontati blended tribes and became known as the Wyandot Tippecanoe Battle of was fought in 1811 in Indiana between U S forces and Tecumseh’s confederation Both sides fought for land rights William Henry Harrison the governor of Indiana Territory led the U S forces in an attempt to clear the area for American settlers Tecumseh’s confederation fought to keep their homeland Even though Harrison’s troops far outnumbered Tecumseh’s confederation both sides lost about 200 men in battle After running out of ammunition Tecumseh’s warriors retreated and Harrison claimed victory for American expansion See also Tecumseh Tiswin is a traditional alcoholic beverage The Western Apache and other tribes made tiswin by brewing either cactus pulp or dried white corn along with water yeast and spices The Apache leader Geronimo was so fond of tiswin that he and his followers left their reservation in eastern Arizona because brewing tiswin was illegal there They attempted to return to their homeland where they could once more drink tiswin However U S soldiers arrested them and returned them to the reservation In the Battle of Tippecanoe Tecumseh gathered a confederation of warriors from nearby tribes to defend their homeland from U S forces
Tiwa refers to a group of Native Americans from New Mexico They share the Pueblo culture with other Pueblo peoples They speak a language also called Tiwa which is a dialect of the Tanoan language Today about 4,000 people from the Tiwa Pueblos speak Tiwa Like other Pueblo peoples the Tiwa grew crops of maize beans and squash The men hunted deer bison elk rabbit birds and other animals The women gathered berries nuts and roots used for herbal teas They wove cotton into clothing The Tiwa men wore cotton kilts and leather sandals The Tiwa women wore cotton dresses sandals and moccasin boots They carved wooden utensils and ate from pottery dishes They also stored their food in pottery containers In the late 1500s Spanish colonists settled into the Pueblo region They built missions and tried to force the Tiwa and other Pueblo tribes to convert to Catholicism They taught the Pueblo peoples to raise cows pigs and chickens and to grow chili peppers wheat tomatoes apples pears peaches and other fruits The Tiwa and other Pueblo groups fought off the Spanish in 1680 However by 1694 the Spanish regained control In 1848 the United States took control of the region following its victory in its war against Mexico After this time the Pueblo tribes including the Tiwa became American citizens See also Pueblo Indians Tiwa Pueblos 7 Tiwa Pueblos are traditional pueblo villages in New Mexico Before Spanish colonization the Tiwa had many pueblos Today the Tiwa-speaking pueblos are Isleta Picurís Sandia and Taos Pueblo peoples built these adobe villages about 350 years ago They built the homes in clusters around central plazas where ceremonies would take place See also adobe Outdoor ladders are used to move from floor to floor of a pueblo rather than stairs The flat roof of a pueblo is used as an outdoor room for working or relaxing in the fresh air
