suasion] KARLY HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 229 
koo Hatchee, 85 and L 5 slaves; on Warkooche Hatchee, 30; on Ilalle- 
wokke Yoaxarhatchee, 191; at Cho-lose-parp Kar, or Kotchar, 
Tus-tun-nuckee's (own, 275 and 24 slaves; total 857 Indians and 51 
slaves. 1 Chiefs' families are not included. 
The inferiority of (his town in numbers to Kasihta was perhaps 
due to the fact that it had given off another settlement which after- 
wards constituted an independent town with its own busk ground. 
This was Likatcka, or "Broken Arrow" as the name has been rudely 
translated into English. It is said to have been founded by some 
families who went off by themselves to a place where they could break 
reeds with which to make arrows. According to William Berry hill, 
an old Coweta, however, it was not so much on account of the place 
where they had settled as because they considered themselves to have 
"broken away" from the parent band in much the same manner as 
a reed is broken. This town is said to have been situated on a trail 
and ford 12 miles below Kasihta. It appears to be noted first by 
Swan (1791). 2 Hawkins in his Sketch of the Creek Country does 
not speak of it, but in a journal dated 1797 says that the people of 
Cowet a Tallahassee had come from it. 3 In the American State Papers 4 
he mentions it as having been destroyed in 1814, but it was soon 
restored, for it was represented at the. treaty of November 15, 1827, 5 
and in the census of 1832. In this latter five settlements belonging 
to the town are enumerated, but it is probable that only the first 
two of these are correctly designated. One of these latter was on 
Uchee Creek; the situation of the other is not specified. Together 
they numbered 418 inhabitants, not counting slaves and free negroes. 6 
Coweta and its chief, Mcintosh, played a conspicuous part hi the 
removal of the Creek Indians to the west. Mcintosh was the leader 
of that party which favored removal and was killed by the conserva- 
tive element in consequence. After the emigration Coweta and its 
branches settled in the northern part of the new country on the 
Arkansas, where most of their descendants still live. Their scmare 
ground was first located about 2 miles west of the present town of 
Coweta. After that site was fenced in and plowed up they moved 
it to some low-lying land close to Coweta, and later busks of a rather 
irregular character were held in other places, but the observance soon 
died out. Nevertheless the busk medicines are, or until recently were, 
still t aken in an informal manner by the Coweta men four times a year, 
corresponding to the times of the three "stomp" dances and the busk. 
According to one informant, shortly before the Civil War, Coweta, 
1 Senate l>oe. .".12, zul Cong., 1st sess., iv, pp. 379-386. A mistake in addition has been made on one 
sheet, which I have rectified. 
• Schoolcraft, in.l. Tribes, v, p. 262. 
»Ga. Hist. Soc. colls., ix, p. 63. 
« Am. state Capers, Ind. Affairs, 1, 858, 1832. 
[ndlan Treaties, L826, pp. 561-564. 
« Senate Doe. :.1L>, 23d Cong., 1st sess.. iv, pp. 386-391. 
