Itza and Yucatec Maya words dot the landscape even today, in the region, where the Chickasaw People became a distinct tribe. Callimako means “House of the King” in Yucatec Maya. Chikimako (Chickamauga) means “House of the King” in Itza Maya.
Later this week, with virtual reality software, I will take you to the probable location in the late 500s AD, where people speaking a proto-Choctaw language lived side-by-side with refugees from Campeche, Chiapas and Tabasco. Their descendants spawned a hybrid people, who spread all over the interior of the Southeast and southern Ohio. The Chickamauga Creek mound and village site in the Nacoochee Valley was excavated by archaeologist Robert Wauchope in 1939.
In Ohio, anthropologists call them “The Fort Ancient Culture.” Until after the American Revolution Chickasaw Territory still extended to Paducah, Kentucky. Kentucky’s and Ohio’s Official state history texts mention the “Fort Ancient Culture,” but do not mention the Chickasaws.
Tennessee academicians call pre-1700 Chickasaws, “The Duck River Culture,” “The Cumberland River Culture,” “Moccasin Bend Culture” and “The Mouse Creek Culture.” The chroniclers of the De Soto Expedition specifically labeled them “Chicasa” on their maps, however. Even though the Chickasaw and Uchee occupied 80% of Tennessee until after the American Revolution, they are barely mentioned in Tennessee’s official history book, whose Native American history section is mostly about the Cherokees, who do not appear on any Southeastern map until 1715.
Chickasaw villages occupied all of NW Georgia, north of the Coosawattee River, until 1785. Chickasaws lived in what is now southern Habersham and White Counties in Northeast Georgia until 1818. There were also Chickasaw villages in Southwest Georgia along the Chickasawhatchee River until 1818. Despite the fact that there were Uchee towns located all over Georgia for at least 3,000 years and Chickasaw towns in much of that future state for at least 1400 years, Georgia’s official state history textbook does not even mention the Uchee or the Chickasaw. It devotes 80% of the chapter on Native Americans to the Cherokee. The Cherokees occupied 15% of the state’s land area from 1785 to 1838. Most of the Cherokee section of the text discusses events that occurred in Tennessee or North Carolina.
Hiwassee Island, Tennessee in 1540, when visited by Hernando de Soto
The big name change
In 1788, Tennessee was mapped by land surveyors in preparation for being ceded by North Carolina the next year. “Somebody” decided on making major name changes to the proposed territory’s river system at that time. Until then, the Little Tennessee River was called the Tanasi River by white settlers, the Tallico or Tellico River by the Cherokees . . . the Tallasee River by the Creeks and the Chiaha River by the Spanish. In the map, approved by Congress in 1789, . . .
- The Callimaco River became the Tennessee River
- The Tanasi River became the Little Tennessee River
- The Setticoa (Citigo) or Little Tellico River became the Tellico River
- The Euphasee River became the Hiwassee River.*
- The Arkacoa River became the French Broad River.
*Euphasee is the 18th century Anglicization of Ufasi, a Creek proper noun, which means “Ufa – Colony of.” The original province of this Uchee tribe, the Ufale (Dog People) was in Southeast Georgia near Fort Caroline. It is one of the many reasons that we know that Fort Caroline was on the Altamaha River in Georgia – not Florida.
** Hiwassee is the Anglicization of the Hiwalsi, a tribal name for the the indigenous people living in the high mountains of Northeast Georgia, where this river begins. Hiwalsi means “Highlanders” in Creek. They are now called “the Towns County Indians.”
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You know Richard, on Hiawasee Island there is a commemorative Cherokee trail of tears museum on the western side of the island now. There is also an amazing congregation of thousands of Sandhill Cranes on that island as well as they migrate.
Blythe Ferry and Hwy 60 run right across the island now. Its got a beautiful cliffside vantage, but it is shameful that there is little to no commemoration of the Uchee and Chickasaw who actually inhabited the area well before any Cherokee saturation around 1715.
Truth needs to be expressed and exposed of Cherokee claims. There were no noted Cherokee in the Tennesse or Georgia area until 1715. Cherokee claims of being here thousands of years are bogus. The earliest reference Ive seen was of the Charaki for record.
Maybe to further affirm the Cherokee weren’t necessarily in the area, see this map of 1732, see Chirachtes above the Mobile River. Maybe they got stuck a little further west of their pre-supposed landing in Alabama for a while.
If that is not another tribe, they are located North of the Chaktas and certainly West of the Chicachas. That may even be Arkansas or Missouri possibly in 1732???
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3300.np000058/?r=0.478,0.309,0.14,0.19,0
Thank you.
Very Respectfully, Zac
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Richard,
Well if the Cherokee were in and around the Memphis locale, maybe they were in Tennessee (North Carolina) in 1750 (See LOC map below), its is hard to tell for sure, but they are on the Eastern side of the Mississippi, but on the western extreme of the Tennessee River, and at the North end of the Mobile River, that’s for sure, on two maps sent with roughly the same locale.
They didn’t move very far on maps from 1715 to 1750, and seemed to enjoy the delta region of western Tennessee, (or the colony of North Carolina, an otherwise slick way to lay claim to Tennessee, and maybe parts of Georgia and Alabama as they were in a virtual Mississippi and Tennessee River basin wasteland)
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3300.np000059/?r=0.556,0.369,0.039,0.054,0
Here are the Cherakees way further West in the western extremes of the “North Carolina” colony than imagined in 1750… They are almost on the Mississippi River right on the northern fringes of the Mobile River again like in the map on 1732.
Absolutely nowhere near the locale of Appalacian Mountains, or even Georgia for that matter. Maybe Memphis area/Missouri. They’re located in delta region at best, in that location.
What a crock these folks tried to pull, saying they were anywhere near this region. They were just living it out in the delta region way further west than I would have imagined looking for them as they claimed to be in North Carolina… well Ill give them that, they were at one time located in the North Carolina Colony, lol what a sly bunch of real estate agents, lol. “The truth shall set you free!”
Delta swamps, mosquitos, and the Cherachte/Cherakee Memphis blues. Halfway home to nowhere called home!
R/, Zac
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Richard here is a 1720 map of the Charakey locale.
They may have initially encountered difficulty at the 3 falls located on the western side of the Cusatee River.
Obviously these falls aren’t a problem anymore today, but they most certainly would have been if the Cherachte/Cherakey were trying to venture eastward from Memphis.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3300.ct000677/?r=0.513,0.292,0.088,0.12,0
The Charakey, are located slightly further East than in 1715/1732 map, this map seems more geologically accurate than others for the time.
Cusatee River would be the Tennessee River. Northeast of Mobile River. The Charakey villages were at least numbering 45 or more at the time, where they would be anticipated to be, or thereabout.
R/,
Zac
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Richard,
This map (LOC link below) was from 1640.
I figured you might appreciate looking through some of the locales; however, they may have more archaic Spanish consonants.
Chalaqua is interesting Spanish or Latin word to consider at this point appears a little further east in between the Apalachian and Blue Ridge regions with the mountain direction change, which would be close to Southeast TN and Northwest GA.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3290.np000144/?r=0.505,0.196,0.058,0.079,0
https://www.bergesinstitutespanish.com/blog/the-letter-x
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Spanish
Chalaqua?
https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/chalaquita minus the it
Chelaqua? Cherokee?
If that is the case, maybe they were around a little earlier than 1715?
Possible disparity in map making locations:
1640, Chalaqua, near blue ridge and Appalachian.
1715, they were located near Memphis on near Mississippi River.
1720, located back East near blue ridge and Appalcian mountains.
1750 out near Memphis again. Maybe there was some expanse to their movements, along the river or War forced them West towards the Mississippi again.
It was a vicious and cyclical set of trails for the Cherokee to undertake, except on a smaller scale. Perhaps they were semi- nomadic at one point as well so delta region may have had much more accessible game as well.
R/,
Zac
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The Chalaka Tribe were a branch of the Shawnee, who show up on late 17th French maps as having their capital located on the Holston River in extreme Northeast Tennessee. When the Creek-Cherokee War broke out in 1715, the majority of the Chalaka Tribe moved to the Tallapoosa River near Sylacauga, Alabama and became members of the Creek Confederacy.
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The Callimaco River became the Tennessee River
The Tanasi River became the Little Tennessee River
The Setticoa (Citigo) or Little Tellico River became the Tellico River
The Euphasee River became the Hiwassee River.*
The Arkacoa River became the French Broad River.********** Reading through the original names of these rivers certain parts stood out. In the Arawak from the Antilles/ Taino language “ Coa” is a long wooden stick used when planting or it is used as a prefix or suffix when referring to a place. Also Arkacoa / has similarities with several words used. Arkabuco / Forest. . The Ar/ Ari is used in the names of several rivers in the Antilles.*******. For example ******. Abacoa
Nombre boriqueño del río Grande de Arecibo. Conservado el vocablo en el Informe dado al Rey en 1582, por el Bachiller Santa Clara y el Pbro. Juan Ponce de León, nieto del Conquistador.*arasibo.-Cacique boriqueño, encomendado, en 1515, a Conchillos. De él procede el actual vocablo Arecibo, aplicado a una población de Puerto Rico, cuya fundación arranca de 1580, a juzgar por el lnforme del bachiller Santa Clara y presbitero Ponce de León. Todos los textos de instrucción tienen equivocada la fundación de este pueblo. Tenia el cacique Arasibo su rancheria junto al río Abacoa, que hoy se llama Grande.
Aramoca.-Cacique haytiano, encomendado a Diego de Vergara, en 1514, en el Repartimiento de La Española.
Aramaná.-Cacique boriqueño, encomendado, en 1510, a las granjerias de S. A. en el Toa.
Ariguanabo.-Laguna al norte de San Antonio de los Bahos, en Cuba.
Arique.-Cordel hecho de una tira de yagua, utilizado para atar pe-quehos bultos.
Arimao.-Río que riega las vegas de Manicaragua, en Cuba.
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Interesante!
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