Taensa

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1. historicalA member of a Native American people whose settlements at the time of European contact in the late 17th century were located in present-day Tensas Parish, Louisiana.

   The Very Rev. Mr. Montigny took up his residence among the Taensas, a tribe allied to the Natchez.

   1886, John Gilmary Shea, A History of the Catholic Church Within the Limits of the United States, page 539