Chiaha
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Chiaha |
| Ethnie: | CHIAHA |
| Language: | Mikasuki |
| Family: | Eastern Muskogee |
| Stock: | Muskogee |
| Phylum: | Algic |
| Macro-Culture: | Eastern Woodlands |
| Speakers | None |
| The Chiaha were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe located on the Tennessee River about the Alabama/Tennessee border. Their first historic location was in Georgia along the middle course of the Chatahoochee. They were early allies of the Creek. The Miccosuki may have fissioned from the Chiaha [?]. Conflicts with the Whites forced the Chiaha to ultimately join the Creek Confederacy. |
| Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions (Villages) |
| AL (1) |
| TN (1) |
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| Year | History |
| 1541 | DeSoto spent 30 days in a Chiaha village |
| 1567 | Pardo met tribe who later destroyed his small garrison; tribe consisted of two groups |
| 1715 | Living among Yamasee, soon removed to Chatahoochee in GA |
| 1838 | Removed to OK |
| 1870 | Tribe assimilated into Creek Confederacy after Civil War |
| Year | Total Pop. | AL | GA | TN | Source | |
| 1700 | 700 | 350 | 350 | NAHDB calculation | ||
| 1738 | 600 | Spanish census (120 warriors) | ||||
| 1800 | 600 | 600 | NAHDB calculation | |||
| 1838 | 600 | Census | ||||
| 1900 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | ||||
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Apalachicola, Hitchiti, Miccosukee, Oconee, Ocmulgee, Sawokli, Tamathli, Yamasee |
| Chiaha Sites: |
| Miccosuki Language http://www.native-languages.org/mikasuki.htm |
| Mikasuki Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=mik |
| Mikasuki Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=92336 |
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