Scientifically, it is called Multiple Regression Analysis and Deductive Reasoning, but in this endeavor the research also involves a comprehensive knowledge of cultural history, plus phonetic spellings and no biased assumptions.
by Richard L. Thornton, Architect & City Planner

I am still working long hours to create realistic three dimensional people, animals and objects for the new super-realistic virtual reality computer models you will soon be seeing. The ox cart in Spanish Florida above is just one example of the hundreds of new CADD-based components. As soon as I am finished with the new computer model of St. Augustine, Florida I will get back to showing you Early Colonial architecture.
Just as in code-breaking, I selected a few, often repeated, key words (phonetic sounds) then compared them among modern languages. These were the words for water, ocean, people/tribe, ruler, trade and town.
Essentially, what I have discovered is that many, if not most of the tribes in the eastern part of Southeastern United States began with a core of Indo-European speaking immigrants. Over the centuries, they intermarried with peoples, whose ancestors came from Siberia so that they generally appeared to 16th and 17th European explorers to be full-blooded American Indians.
There were exceptions, however. Early residents of Savannah, GA spoke of a tribe of “light skinned” Indians nearby, who spoke Irish Gaelic, mixed in with some Creek Indian words.
In contrast, the phonetic sounds of the Muskogee-Creek language are astonishingly similar to those of the archaic languages of Scandinavia . . . Gamla Norsk, Anglisk (Old English), Gutisko (Gothic) and Frisian. Muskogee also contains Nordic, Latin and Illyrian words in addition to words from Mesoamerican and Mississippi River Basin peoples.
Both language families formerly pronounced . . .
- g and k as a sound halfway between the way they are pronounced in Modern English.
- rolled an R so hard that it might sound like an L to modern Europeans. Original R spellings are often changed to an L
- S like sh or jzh in Modern English
Four brief examples of code-breaking
Sverige (Sweden)
Sverige was originally written as Svea-rike. Sverige is today defined as meaning “Swedes – realm”. However, rike is compound of two words. “Re” in Indo-European originally meant right or straight, but came to mean “government or ruler” in northern Europe. Written as the suffixes re, ree, ri, ry, le, lee and li, it can be found in tribal and place names in Scandinavia, Scotland, Ireland, England, the Gulf Coast of Mexico and the Southeastern United States.
“Ke, ki, ge and gi” meant “people or tribe” in many languages including Indo-European, Gamla Norsk (Archaic Scandinavian), Gaelic/Galician, Maori Polynesian, Mexico, Central America, Algonquin, Iroquois, Cherokee and Muskogee-Creek.
Corra-re and Curry
Corra-re was the name of provinces in the northern tip of Ireland and across the channel in the Scottish Highland Isles, where the Scots originally lived. At that time they were a maritime people, who constructed sea-going boats. They were considered to be the largest people in Europe. They typically had freckles with either red or reddish-brown hair. Curry is the Anglicized family name, derived from that province. The provincial name means “Spear or Spear-goddess – realm.”
Corra was also the name of a Muskogee-speaking proto-Creek province that stretched from the Tuckasegee River in the North Carolina Mountains to the headwaters of the Savannah River in northeast Georgia. Most moved southward during the Little Ice Age into Georgia, but the few that remained, when the Cherokees arrived in the late 1600s were called “red haired giants” by the Cherokee. Residents of Georgia called them the Collasee or Cullasee Creeks and also noticed that they had freckles and reddish-brown hair. They later moved father south and became founding members of the Seminole Alliance.
Several place names recall their former presence in the mountains. These include Cullowhee, NC, Currahee Mountain, GA and the Cullasaja River, NC. The name of the Judaculla Petroglyphs is the Anglicized form of the Creek words meaning. “Sky-over-Corra.”
Alekmanni or Alecmany
The Alekmanni Tribe controlled the Lower Altamaha River in Georgia. Their capital was at present-day Doctortown, near Jesup, GA. However, they also occupied villages near Fort Caroline, which cultivated Cinchona trees for making quinine. Feral cinchona trees are still growing near the banks of the Altamaha River. Fort Caroline could not possibly be in Florida! The tribe specialized in growing medicinal herbs and then distributing them throughout the Southeast. Alek is the Creek word today, for a medical doctor.
The commander of Fort Caroline, Captain René Goulaine de Laudonnière, stated that the word, Alecmanni, meant “Medical doctor or medicinal herbs – People.” There is only one language in the world in which those sounds could have had that meaning . . . Anglisk . . . the language spoken by the Angles before they moved to Britain and merged their language with the Saxons, Jutes and Danes. Its specific meaning in Anglisk is “Herbal healers – noblemen.”
Tocah-re or Tokee
This was a large Uchee tribe in northeast Tennessee, the Tuckasegee River Basin in North Carolina, the Highlands, NC area, Toccoa Creek in northeast Georgia and Toccoa River in north-central Georgia. After migrating southward into present-day Georgia, Alabama and northeastern Florida, they became known as the Tokasee or Tuckabachee Creeks. The French called them the Togaria. Arawak speakers called them, the Tokah-koa (Toccoa). They were very large and had freckles like the people of Corra.
- Tokah-re would be perfectly understandable to a modern Gaelic speaker. It means “Principal Kingdom.”
- Tuckasegee is the Anglicization of Tokahsi-ke, which means “Descendants of Tokah – People.
- Tuckabachee is the Anglicization of Tokahpasi, which means “Tokah – place – descendants of.”
- Tokahle (Tokahre) is the modern Muskogee-Creek word for “freckled.”
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Love the linguistic research. Thanks
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Interesting! Linguistics are much further reaching than is reflected in documents about lineages. Thanks!
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