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warriors, while the number belonging to the whole nation is not estimated at more 
than 3,500. ] 
Seven separate Kasihta settlements are enumerated in the census 
of L832, as follows: 
On little Euchee Creek, 21 1, besides L05 slaves; on Tolarnulkar Hatchee, 48*1, and 
4slaves;on Opillikee Eatchee, Tallassee town, 171; on Chowwokolohatchee, 118; at 
Secharlitcha ["under 1. lack-jack trees"]. 2 14; on Osenubba Hatchee, or Tuckabatchee 
I la t jo's town, 269, and 8 slaves: near West Point, or Tuskehenehaw Chooley's town, 
399; total, 1,868 Indians and 117 slaves. 2 
The principal chiefs and their households are omitted from the 
enumeration. Gatschet mentions another branch called "Tusilgis 
tco'ko or clapboard house." 3 After their removal they settled in the 
northern part of the Creek Nation in the west with the other Lower 
Creeks, where their descendants for the most part still are. 
The Coweta 4 
The Coweta were the second great Muskogee tribe among the 
Lower ("reeks, and they headed the war side as Kasihta headed the 
peace side. Their honorary title in the confederacy was Kawita 
ma'ma'yi, "tall Coweta." Although as a definitely identified tribe 
they appear later in history and in the migration legends winch have 
been preserved to us the Kasihta are given precedence, the Coweta 
were and still are commonly accounted the leaders of the Lower 
('reeks and often of the entire nation. By many early writers all of 
the Lower Creeks are called Coweta, and the Spaniards and French 
both speak of the Coweta chief as " emperor" of the Creeks. An 
anonymous French writer of the eighteenth century draws the follow- 
ing picture of his power at the time of the Yamasee uprising: 
The nation of the Oaouita is governed by an emperor, who in 1714 [1715] caused to 
be killed all the English there were, not only in his nation, but also among the Abeca, 
Talapouches, Alibamons, and Cheraqui. Not content with that he went to commit 
depredations as far as the gates of Carolina. The English were excited and wanted 
to destroy them by making them drag pieces of ordinance loaded with grape-shot, by 
lying two ropes to the collar of the tube, on each one of which they put sixty savages, 
whom they killed in the midst of their labors by putting tire to the cannon; but as they 
saw they would take vengeance with interest, they made very great presents to the 
emperor to regain his friendship and that of his nation. The French do the same 
thing, and also the Spaniards, which makes him very rich, for the French who go to 
visit him are served in a silver dish. He is a man of a good appearance and good char- 
acter. He has numbers of slaves who are busy night and day cooking food for those 
going and coming to visit him. He seldom goes on foot, always [riding on] well har- 
nessed horses, and followed by many of his village. He is absolute in his nation. He 
• Hodgson, Remarks during Jour, through X. Am., pp. 265-266. 
'Senate Doc.512, 23d Cong., let sess.; Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, iv, p. 578. In the sheets as published 
one figure is too large by 2 and one too small by 1. I have corrected these mistakes. 
• Marginal note in Creek Mig. Leg., i. MS. 
• On the maps I have spelled this phonetically, Kawita. The above is the form which has been 
adopted into popular usage. 
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