Hitchiti
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Hitchiti |
| Ethnie: | HITCHITI |
| Language: | Mikasuki |
| Family: | Eastern Muskogee |
| Stock: | Muskogee |
| Phylum: | Algic |
| Macro-Culture: | Eastern Woodlands |
| Speakers | None |
| The Hitchiti were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe. The Muskhogean peoples arrived in their aboriginal area sometime after 1,000 BC They were located on the lower course of the Ocmulgee River. The Okmulgee apparently fissioned from the Hitchiti early. The Hitchiti later split and fused into the Seminole and Creek Confederacies as a result of White pressure. |
| Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions (Villages) |
| GA (3) |
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| Year | History |
| 1541 | Visited by De Soto at the Ocute village on the lower course of the Okmulgee |
| 1597 | Visited by de Salas and two missionaries |
| 1767 | Eufaula Hitchitis joined Seminole |
| 1799 | Had two villages near Flint River per Hawkins |
| 1838 | Moved to Oklahoma with Creeks |
| Year | Total GA Pop. | Source | |
| 1700 | 500 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1738 | 300 | Swanton (60 warriors) | |
| 1750 | 250 | Swanton (50 warriors) | |
| 1761 | 200 | Swanton (40 warriors) | |
| 1772 | 450 | Swanton (90 warriors) | |
| 1800 | 400 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1821 | 300 | Young estimate | |
| 1832 | 381 | Swanton | |
| 1900 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Apalachicola, Chiaha, Miccosuki, Oconee, Ocmulgee, Sawokli, Tamathli, Yamasee |
| Hitchiti Sites: |
| Heron and the Hummingbird (Story) http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/ga3.html |
| Hitchiti Indian Tribe History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/muskhogean/hitchitihist.htm |
| Indian Pioneer History Overview http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~texlance/iph/thomasmeagher.htm |
| Land of Promise http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/beneathweb/ch11.htm |
| 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 |
| Observations on the Seminole Indians - 1823 http://www.seminolenation-indianterritory.org/observations.htm |
| Oklahoma Seminole Towns of 1900 http://www.seminolenation-indianterritory.org/seminole_towns_of_1900.htm |
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