SWAXTON] INDIAN TIMnKS ol' lill'; I,()\\i;i: MISSlssii'lM \\i,MiV 83 



arc (lit' Tawasa and ("lialol. respectively. I)iit (lie rciiiaiinler can not I)e 

 iilcMlilicd \('i'v satislactdrilx . Mooney su<2:fj:ests that Sowoolla is per- 

 haps what was afterward the Lower Creek town of Sawokli. Poi'ihka 

 (he hiter Alihanui settU'inent of Pawokti, and Toinooka an exikMl 

 vilhiiie of the Tiuiiieiia (called b}^ the En<;lish Tomoco) which had 

 heeii driven out of Florida. P]xceptin<j this hist sujr^estion. e\ideiicc 

 reii'arding these people points to relationship with the llitchiti and 

 (lie Alihamu, that is. (o (he "Stinkard** element ainoiia' ^\^*' ("reeks. 

 Thus the Tawasa are known to have united with the Alihanui, 

 Pawokti was an Alibaiuu town, and Sawokli and Apalaehicola were 

 1 1 itch it i towns. Reasons for classifying the Chatot as Muskhogean 

 ha\e alreaily been given." Unlike the others, they separated entirely 

 from the Creeks and followed the fortunes of the small tribes under 

 FreiK'h i)r()tection. 



The relationship of Korea, Yazoo, Tioiix, and Grigra to Tunica 

 rests merely on circumstantial evidence. Du Pratz, whose informa- 

 (ion, in spite of slips here and there, is generally accurate, states that 

 (he languages of all of these tribes contained an ;■, whereas none of 

 (heir neighbors could even pronounce that sound.'' For the Koroa 

 this i- confirmed by the tribal name itself, and the Yazoo and Koroa 

 tribes were alwaj^s so closely associated that their relationship to 

 each other seems plausible. The ChoctaAV chief, Allen AVright. 

 whose grandfather was a Koroa, also affirmed that the language of 

 that people was entirely distinct from Choctaw.'" In Du Pratz's day 

 the Tioux were under Natchez protection, and tliis was true of at 

 least part of them as far back as Iberville's first voyage, 1699.'' There 

 is every reason to believe, however, that they had come there shortly 

 l)ef<)re from Yazoo river, where nearly all of the other tribes of this 

 grouji were situated.' Of the (irigra we know nothing more than 

 the fact (hat theii' language possessed an r and that they had been 

 taken under tlie j)rotection of the Natchez at a still earlier date.^ 

 riie relation of all of these to Tunica is indicated though not finally 

 proved by the following considerations. In the first plac<' the lan- 

 guages of all contained the phonetic /'. which was conspicuously ab- 

 sent from the s})eech of the tribes about them; all except the Grigra 

 are known to have lived along Yazoo river at some former time; 

 i'.nd the name of one of these tribes, the Koroa, resembles certain 

 Tunica words, as o/-oa, 'white,' 'white man.' In 1722 La Ilarpe 

 ascended from New Orleans to the Arkansas, and stopped for al)()ut 

 ten days at the Yazoo post. There he found, as he says, " settlements 



« See p. 27. 



•• Du Pratz, Hist, de La Louisiano. ii, 2i;2-2l.T>, IT^S. 



«• Gatscliot, Creek Mig. Leg., i, 48. 



■* Margry, IX-coiivcrtes, iv, 170. 



•■ Du Pratz, Hist, de La I..ouisiane, ii, '2'J^ 



' IbUl.. L'22. 



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