246 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 73 
the census of 1S32. 1 There is to-day a place called Loaehapoka in 
Lee County, Alabama, about halfway between Montgomery and West 
Point. The name was also given to a western tributary of the Chatta- 
hoochee. 1 After the Creek removal this town settled in the northern- 
most part of the nation, where the flourishing modern city of Tulsa has 
grown up, named for its mother town. The main town of Tulsa also 
split into two parts in Oklahoma, called after their respective loca- 
tions Tulsa Canadian and Tulsa Little River. The last is the only 
one which in 1912 maintained a square ground. 
The Okfuskee [Akfaski] towns constituted the largest group 
descended from Coosa. Like the Tulsa, these people referred to them- 
selves in busk speeches asKos-istagi, "Coosapeople." The name, which 
signifies "point between rivers," nowhere appears in the De Soto 
narratives, but is in evidence very early in the maps and documents 
of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. On the Lam- 
hatty map it is given in the form "Oufusky," apparently as far 
east as the east bank of Flint River. 2 Not much reliance can be 
placed on the geography of this map, though it is not unlikely that 
Lamhatty was attempting to place the eastern Okfuskee settlements 
on the upper Chattahoochee River. On the De Crenay map of 
1733 two Okfuskee towns appear— one, "Oefasquets," between the 
Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers well down toward the point where they 
come together; the other, "Les grands Oefasque," a considerable dis- 
tance up the Tallapoosa. 3 They occur again in the Spanish census 
of 1738, in which the latter is called "Oefasque Talajase," showing 
it to have been the original town. 4 The same pair are repeated 
in the census of 1750. 5 The former appears in the list of 1760 as 
"Akfeechkoutchis" (i. e., Little Okfuskee); the latter as "Akfaches" 
(i. e., the Okfuskee proper). 6 This last is ' 'the great Okwhuske town" 
which Adair mentions and locates on the west bank of Tallapoosa 
River. He calls the Tallapoosa River after it. 7 
In 1754 the French of Fort Toulouse almost persuaded the Okfuskee 
Creeks to cut off those English traders who were among them, but 
they were prevented by the opposition of a young chief. 8 In 1760 
such a massacre did take place at Okfuskee and its branch town, 
Sukaispoga, as also at Okchai and Kealedji. 9 The name of Okfuskee 
appears in the list of 1761, and in the lists of Bartram, Swan, and 
Hawkins. 10 Bartram mentions an upper and a lower town of 
i Senate Doc. 512, 23d Cong. 1st sess.,iv, pp. 270-274. 
2 Plate 9. 
3 Amer. Anthrop., n. s. vol. x, p.W 
« Hamilton, Col. Mobile, p. 190. 
* MS., Ayer Lib. 
« Miss. Prov. Arch., I, p. 95. 
' Adair, Hist. Am. Inds., pp. 258,252 
» Ga. Col. Docs., vii, pp. 41-42. 
» Ibid., pp. 261-266. 
io Ga. Col. Docs., vm, p. 523; Bartram, Travels, p. 461; Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, p. 262; Ga. Hist. Soc. 
Colls., m, p. 25. 
