200 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 73 
18 13 than all the other tribes together." 1 After the treaty of Fort 
Jackson, in 1814, by which all of the old Alabama land was ceded to 
the whites, the same writer says that part of them settled above the 
mouth of Cubahatche in a town called Towassee^ while the rest moved 
to a place on Coosa River above Wetumpka. He states that the town 
belonging to this latter division was Otciapofa, but he is evidently 
mistaken, because Otciapofa has been pure Creek as far back as we 
have any knowledge of it. 2 Perhaps the Coosa settlement was that 
called Autauga in the census of 1832, or it may have contained the 
Okchaiutci Indians, whose history will be given presently. I have 
suggested elsewhere that the names of these towns seem to show the 
part of the tribe which remained with the Creeks to have been the 
Tawasa. Speaking of the Alabama Indians in his time Stiggins says 
that, while their chiefs were admitted to the national councils on the 
same terms as the others, they seldom associated with the Creeks 
otherwise. After their removal the Alabama settled near the Cana- 
dian, but some years later went still farther west and located about 
the present town of Weleetka, Okla. A small station on the St. 
Louis-San Francisco Railroad just south of Weleetka bears their 
name. While a few of these Indians retain their old language it is 
rapidly giving place to Creek and English. They have the distinction 
of being the only non-Muskogee tribe incorporated with the Creeks, 
exclusive of the Yuchi, which still maintains a square ground. 
As already noted, one Alabama town received the name, Okchai- 
utci, "Little Okchai, " which suggests relationship with the Okchai 
people, but the origin of this the Indians explain as follows: At one 
time the Alabama (probably only part of the tribe) had no square 
ground and asked the Okchai to take them into theirs. The Okchai 
said, "All right; you can seat yourself on the other side of my four 
backsticks and I will protect you." They did so, and for some time 
afterwards the two tribes busked together and played on the same 
side in ball games. Later on, however, a dispute arose in connec- 
tion with one of these games and the Alabama separated, associating 
themselves with the Tukabahchee and hence with the opposite fire 
clan. Afterwards those Alabama formed a town which they called 
Okchaiutci, and to this day Okchaiutci is one of the names given the 
Alabama Indians in set speeches at the time of the busk. According 
to my informant, himself an Okchai Indian, the date of this separa- 
tion w r as as late as 1872-73, but he must be much in error since we 
find Okchaiutci in existence long before the removal to Oklahoma. 
Okchaiutci appears first, apparently, in the census list of 1750, 
though the diminutive ending is not used. In 1761 the trader located 
« Stiggins, MS. 
» Still they may have occupied the site of Otciapofa for a time. This place and Little Tulsa were so 
close together that they were often confounded. 
