Native American Encyclopedia The-Other-Magpie To Zuni

Native American Encyclopedia The-Other-Magpie To Zuni — page 2 — 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

Native American Encyclopedia The-Other-Magpie To Zuni — page 3 — 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

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