swam- I EARLY HISTORY OF THE CREEK IXIUANS 143 
of ilic Kasihta and Coweta. In a Spanish documenl dated L738 this 
seems to be called "Tamaxle Nuevo" and is represented as the 
Dorthernmost of the Lower Creels towns/ but it is usually known by 
a variant of t be t ribal name-now under discussion, although the initial 
consonant is somet imes ch rather than s. One of the two names given 
above as appearing on the DeCrenay map evidently refers to this band, 
but which is uncertain. In the Spanish census of 1750 it occurs 
again in the distorted hum "Couacale\" ' and in the French census 
of 1760 it LS spelled ( MiaoUakle" and placed between Kasihta and 
Coweta. 1 ' Finally, one of my best Indian informants — a man who 
was horn in the country of the Lower Creeks in Alabama — remem- 
bered that there were two distinct towns called Sawokli and Tca- 
wokli. both of which be believed to belong to the Hitchiti group. 
This Latter probably gave its name to a branch of Uphapee Creek 
called Chewockeleehatchee Creek, which in turn furnished the desig- 
nation for a body of Tulsa who had nothing to do with the Sawokli 
tribe. 8 If we may trust the census of 1832, a village inhabited by 
Kasihta bore the same name. 4 
The towns of Okawaigi (or Kawaigi) and Okiti-yagani are said to 
have branched off from the Sawokli. The former is probably one of 
the Sawokli towns which appear in the French census. The latter is 
evidently the"Oeyakbe"of the same list, 2 and the " Weupkees " of the 
census of 1761 ,"' in which the name has been translated into Muskogee, 
Oiyakpi, "water (or river) fork." Manuel Garcia, a Spanish officer 
sent against the adventurer Bowles, mentions it in the grossly dis- 
torted form "Hogue ohotehanne." 6 Okawaigi and Okiti-yakani are 
both in Hitchiti, the first signifying "Place to get water, "and the second 
' ' Zigzag stream land." They are in the census list of 1832 along with 
still another Sawokli off branch called Hatchee tcaba [Hatci tcaba] 7 
which is to be distinguished carefully from an Tapper Creek town 
of the same name, a branch of Kealedji. 8 After accompanying the 
other Creeks west the Sawokli soon gave up their independent busk 
ground and united with the Hitchiti. Their descendants are living 
near Okmulgee, the former capital of the Creek Nation in the west. 
THE PENSACOLA 
Westward of the tribes just considered, and probably immediately 
west of the Sawokli, the Spanish "Province of Sabacola, " lived 
anciently the Pensacola. Their name, properly Pa n shi okla, "Bread 
People," is Choctaw or from a closely related tongue, but we know 
| MS. in Aver Coll., Newberry Lib. This docu- '■> <;a. Col. Docs., vm, 522. 
ment incidentally serves as an additional argument 6 Copy of MS. in Aver Coll., Newberry Library. 
for i he Ilitrhiti connection of the Tamati Indians. » Sen. Doc. 512, 23d Cong., 1st sess., pp. 312-344; 
» Miss. Prov. Arch.. I, p. 96. \ la. Mist. Soc. Misc. Colls., 1, p. 396, 
: 245. 'Seep. 272. 
* See p. 225. 
