GC602VA Mondo's NAT #582 - Tunica
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: mondou2 @ | Hide Date: 07/23/2015 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 40.924 W104° 37.432 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
       

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Native American Tribes series.

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Tunica

A tribe, forming a distinct linguistic family known as Tonikan, formerly dwelling on the lower Mississippi. The Tunica are prominent in the early history of the lower Mississippi region because of their attachment to the French and the faithful service rendered them as allies in contests with neighboring tribes. When first visited they lived in Mississippi on lower Yazoo River. In 1699 La Source estimated the number of their cabins at about 260, scattered over 4 leagues of country. He states that they lived entirely on Indian corn and did no hunting. Gravier, who visited the tribe in 1700, states that they occupied 7 hamlets containing 50 or 60 small cabins. In 1706, according to La Harpe, the Tunica were driven from their villages by the Chickasaw and Alibamu and joined the Huma; and it is said that subsequently they killed more than half that tribe and occupied its territory. In 1730 they met with a reverse at the hands of those Natchez who had taken refuge among the Chickasaw; their village was burned and a large number of them killed. In 1760 they occupied 3 villages, the largest of which was on a lake at Tunica Bayou. Baudry des Lozières in 1802 ascribed to them a population of 120 men, a total of about 450.

Gravier’s description of the Tunica in 1700 indicates that their women made an excellent fabric of mulberry cloth; there was a fair division of labor between the sexes; the men cultivated the soil, planted and harvested the crops, cut the wood and brought it to the cabin, and dressed the deer and buffalo skins; the women performed the indoor work and made pottery and clothing; polygamy was rare among them. The Tunica language, hitherto unknown or unpublished, was studied in 1886 by Gatschet. It is vocalic arid harmonious, rich in verbal forms and possessing also a declension of the noun, arid, what is more remarkable, nominal and pronominal gender. It appears to have no genetic connection with any other family of languages.

05/31/2019 By CacheDeposit
TFTC

03/30/2019 By team.STEWART817
Looks like someone recently found it and didn’t cover it back, made it super easy and quick.

03/24/2019 By imusttravel2000
Omg!!! That was a muddy incline. Gave the log a baggie. Thanks!!!!

03/24/2019 By poolsharkycat
Doing some caching down the and doing repairs today.

11/23/2018 By lasouthpaw
This was the site of the first true tumbleweed attack. It came up and over the fence to bean me on the head while I was signing the log.

Oh my, where to begin. I try not to do cut and paste logs, but I didn't take the best notes today and we hit a ton of caches today. It's official, peacelovepi and I are working on the 360 degrees of Colorado challenge and I'm racing to get to 3000 finds. We came out to get some rays around the airport today. The weather didn't look like it was going to be bad, but we both underestimated the power of the wind. And the tumbleweeds. We did some power trailing, she was the driver and I was the runner. LOL I got absolutely accosted by tumbleweeds today - at multiple stops! I even had thorns in my pockets by the end of our run! Between the chill and the wind, logs were signed as "la pi" and they were usually signed wherever we could get to easiest/first. I thought we were going to cache all day, but by the time we got to the end of the listed caches here we were ready to call it a day. A big thank you to all the COs for the smileys and the 360 degree rays! This one was find #2956 for me.

10/22/2018 By Krystalroze
Left a goodie, tftc

09/28/2018 By djkfisher
Out from Bend Oregon for a little a little work and a little caching. Thanks so much to all the cacher’s that have placed these smiles for all to find.

You had to be a little bit of a mountain goat to get this cache

We are Geocaching the world one cache at a time!  May the wind be at your back and the sun shine warm upon your face!

Found on my iPhoneX using the Cachly APP

09/03/2018 By Mean Kitty
Find #48859

Its been a long hot summer in Texas, I've been trying to get out and do a caching trip a couple of times this summer, but it never worked out. Finally managed to get a week off, and am so happy to be out here in Colorado. The weather if perfect, and there is a load of caches that need my name on Thanks so much for the hide mondou2, I really enjoyed finiding this cache!

07/29/2018 By Seisbery
Tftc

07/26/2018 By Aidfuts
Trying to get the Dragon Hidden Creature on the last day, of course it's raining. Took a picture of cache instead of signing log.

07/15/2018 By fearthefish
Apparently I am no longer able to find a cache without being accompanied by the lovable and always cheerful herndonrd. Today was no exception, as I was out and about caching with herndonrd simply because I make him look good. He typically finds the caches while I look in all the wrong places. Today was an especially exciting day since I let him drive, which is like going to a carnival except you can't get fried Twinkies.

But I digress.

Today my goal was to find 24 caches (no more, no less) so I could complete another challenge that I signed far too long ago. Since herndonrd was occupied operating the heavy machinery, it was my job to do the fetching. Fortunately this was a quick and easy one. After I did the whole sign and replace thing we celebrated our victory by getting in the car and then driving off to another cache. Thanks for the fun hide and for getting me outside on such a beautiful day.

P. S. No animals (humans or otherwise) were harmed in the writing of this log.

07/13/2018 By tc54915
Had the whole day to waste waiting for my coworker to get into town, so I figured I would grab some easy ones. This is so not fun doing park and grabs by yourself. Oh well...TFTC

07/08/2018 By GanderGoose
Discovered a nice row of 22 caches on the geocaching map so I headed south on a beautiful summer day in pursuit of the dragon souvenir. It was a peaceful road this morning. Thanks for the history and placement, mondou2!