• The Taensa (also Taënsas, Tensas, Tensaw, and Grands Taensas in French) were a Native American people whose settlements at the time of European contact...
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  • The Taensa language was spoken by the Taensa people originally of northeastern Louisiana, and later with historical importance in Alabama. Though poorly...
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    County, Alabama. The name Tensaw is derived from the historic indigenous Taensa people. It is a distributary of the Mobile River, approximately 41 miles...
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    is St. Joseph. The name Tensas is derived from the historic indigenous Taensa people. The parish was founded in 1843 following Indian Removal. The parish...
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  • Coast. The Avoyel were also known by the French as the petits Taensas (English: Little Taensa), who were mentioned in writings by explorer Pierre Le Moyne...
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  • Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (religion of the Mississippian culture) Taensa native tribal religion Taino spirituality Tairona religion Talamancan religion...
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    The Taensa Grammar and Dictionary: A Deception Exposed. F. H. Revell. 1885. Retrieved 2013-04-24. (Exposé of the hoax grammar of the so-called Taensa language...
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  • languages turn out to be hoaxes, such as the Kukurá language of Brazil or the Taensa language of Louisiana. Others are honest errors that persist in the literature...
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    Natchez Holly Bluff Jaketown Jordan Julice Mangum Mazique Medora Mott Natchez Taensa Pocahontas Routh Scott Place Sims Transylvania Venable Winterville Caddoan...
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    Natchez Holly Bluff Jaketown Jordan Julice Mangum Mazique Medora Mott Natchez Taensa Pocahontas Routh Scott Place Sims Transylvania Venable Winterville Caddoan...
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    Natchez Holly Bluff Jaketown Jordan Julice Mangum Mazique Medora Mott Natchez Taensa Pocahontas Routh Scott Place Sims Transylvania Venable Winterville Caddoan...
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  • used it were the Alabama, Apalachee, Biloxi, Chacato, Pakana, Pascagoula, Taensa, Tunica, Caddo, Chickasaw, Houma, Choctaw, Chitimacha, Natchez, and Ofo...
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    Pijao language Pisabo (possibly the same language as Matsés) Quinipissa Taensa Tiou Yamacraw Yamasee Yazoo Loukotka (1968) reports the names of hundreds...
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    Plaquemine culture is considered ancestral to the historic Natchez and Taensa peoples, whose descendants encountered Europeans in the colonial era. By...
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    natives, including the Atakapa, Bayogoula, Natchez, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Taensa, and Alabamon peoples, would continue throughout the history of French rule...
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    east central Florida Suteree (Sitteree, Sutarees, Sataree), North Carolina Taensa, Mississippi Tawasa, Alabama Tequesta, southeastern coastal Florida Timucua...
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    Southern Pomo, Southern Sierra Miwok, Southern Tiwa, Stoney, Susquehannock, Taensa, Takelma, Tamyen, Tangipahoa, Taos, Tataviam, Tawasa, Tequesta, Tewa, Texas...
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    until his death in 1926. In 1882 the Grammaire et vocabulaire de la langue Taensa, avec textes traduits et commentés par J.-D. Haumonté, Parisot, L. Adam...
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    near St. Louis, Missouri. It is considered ancestral to the Natchez and Taensa Peoples. Emerald Mound: A Plaquemine Mississippian period archaeological...
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    to the Marksville culture (100 BCE to 400 CE). The Natchez and related Taensa peoples were their historic period descendants. The type site for the culture...
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    Europeans when they first arrived in the area. In the Natchez Bluffs area, the Taensa and Natchez people had held out against Mississippian influence and continued...
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    Catahoula Lake, formerly within the parish's boundaries and named from a Taensa/Natchez word meaning big, clear lake 8,414 739 sq mi (1,914 km2) Claiborne...
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    Related topics Eastern Agricultural Complex Fourche Maline culture Mississippian culture Natchez Plaquemine culture Platform mound Taensa Troyville culture...
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  • the hitherto undocumented Taensa language spoken by a people of Louisiana. The Grammaire et vocabulaire de la langue Taensa, avec textes traduits et commentés...
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  • people in 1700. He first met members of the tribe transporting salt to the Taensa. Bienville traveled to the principal Ouachita village, which he described...
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    Native Americans living along the lower Mississippi River, such as the Taensa. During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, French colonists in the...
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  • earlier Tchefuncte culture. It is considered ancestral to the Natchez and Taensa peoples. Around the year 800 CE, the Mississippian culture emerged from...
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    Natchez Holly Bluff Jaketown Jordan Julice Mangum Mazique Medora Mott Natchez Taensa Pocahontas Routh Scott Place Sims Transylvania Venable Winterville Caddoan...
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  • for the lower reaches of the Quachita River after the confluence of the Taensa River) in northeastern Louisiana, about 1690 they settled near Pargoud Landing...
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    Louisiana black bear. The name Tensas is derived from the historic indigenous Taensa people. The first plantations along the Tensas River were established by...
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