Hitchiti

The Hitchiti were a Muskhogean tribe formerly residing in a town of the same name on the east bank of Chattahoochee river, and possessing a narrow strip of good land bordering on the river, in west Georgia.

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His name in Hitchiti was As-se-se-he-ho-lar or Asiyahola, which is what the Seminoles called the Black Drink, the sacramental tea brewed out of holly and yaupon leaves.

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The Hitchiti were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe.

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The Hitchiti were absorbed into and became an integral part of the Creek Nation, though preserving to a large extent their own language and peculiar customs.

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The Seminole are also said to have been a half-Creek and half-Hitchiti speaking people, although their language is now almost identical with the Creek.

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The Okmulgee apparently fissioned from the Hitchiti earlier.

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The Hitchiti later split and fused into the Seminole and Creek Confederacies as a result of White pressure.

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It is believed that the Yamasee likewise spoke the Hitchiti language.

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The Hitchiti tribe is not often mentioned in history, and appears for the first time in 1733, when two of its delegates met Governor Oglethorpe at Savannah.

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The language appears to have extended beyond the limits of the tribe, and it was spoken not only in the towns on the Chattahoochee – Chiaha, Hitchiti, Oconee, and Apalachicola – but by the Miccosukee and over considerable portions of Georgia and Florida.

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