Sawokli
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Sawokli |
| Ethnie: | SAWOKLI |
| Language: | Mikasuki |
| Family: | Eastern Muskogee |
| Stock: | Muskogee |
| Phylum: | Algic |
| Macro-Culture: | Eastern Woodlands |
| Speakers | None |
| The Sawokli were an important sedentary hunter/farmer tribe, and aboriginally included the Miccosuki. White pressure eventually forced them into the Seminole Confederacy. |
| Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions (Villages) |
| AL Hatcheetcaba, Miccosuki, Okawaigi, Sawokli, Tcawokli |
| GA Okiti-yagani, Sawoklutci |
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| Year | History |
| Tribal tradition places the tribe on the Gulf coast prior to European contact | |
| 1675 | Mission Santa Cruz de Sabacola established by Bishop Calderón of Cuba, had 6 or more villages |
| 1679 | Band on Chatahoochee below falls, accepted a mission under Fr, Gutierrez for a few months |
| 1706 | Displaced by Creeks (Muskhogee?) for a short while to Okmulgee River |
| 1715 | Split up into several settlements, joined by Oconee to form nucleus of the Seminole Confedereacy |
| 1738 | Spanish reported 20 men in tribe |
| 1750 | Spanish reported 4 villages with 50 men |
| 1760 | 4 villages with 190 men |
| Year | Total Pop. | FL | GA | Source | |
| 1600 | 2,000 | 2,000 | NAHDB arrival population est. based on 125 per village plus 1,250 Miccosuki | ||
| 1700 | 600 | 600 | NAHDB calculation | ||
| 1800 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |||
| 1821 | 450 | 450 | Young estimate (enumerated with Seminole) | ||
| 1900 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |||
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Apalachicola, Chiaha, Hitchiti, Miccosuki, Oconee, Okmulgee, Tamathli, Yamasee |
| Sawokli Sites: |
| Alabama Indian Tribes http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/alabama/ |
| Georgia Indian Tribes http://63.247.83.241/native/georgia/index.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 |
| Origin of the Seminole Indians http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v015/v015p102.html |
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