Mondo's NAT # 130 - Chiaha Traditional Cache
Mondo's NAT # 130 - Chiaha
-
Difficulty:
-
-
Terrain:
-
Size: 
(micro)
Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions
in our disclaimer.
Native American Tribe series.
Chiaha
Also called the Tolameco or Solameco, the Chiaha belonged to the Muscogean linguistic stock and in later times spoke the Muskogee language, but there are reasons to class them in the Hitchiti group. In later historic times the Chiaha were on the middle course of Chattahoochee River, but at the earliest period at which we have any knowledge of them they seem to have been divided into two bands, one on Burns Island, in Tennessee, the other in eastern Georgia near the coast. The Mikasuki of northern Florida are said to have separated from these people. Some confusion regarding this tribe has been occasioned by the fact that in the sixteenth century there appear to have been two divisions. The name was first documented by Hernando De Soto narratives describing a village on an island in the Tennessee River thought to have been Burns Island close to the Tennessee-Alabama line. Another reference that might apply to them occurs in the names of two Creek bodies "Chehaw" and "Chearhaw" in the early 1800's. After the Creek moved to Oklahoma the Chiaha settled in the northeastern corner of the Creek Reservation and maintained a square ground there until after the Civil War, but, later were absorbed into the tribe. Some of them went to Florida and the Mikasuki are said by some to have branched off from them.
Additional Hints
(No hints available.)