su-anton] EARLY HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 419 
Cussetuh and Chickasaw consider themselves as people of one fire (tote-Mt-cau 
humgoqe) from the earlieBl accounl of their origin. Cussetuh appointed the first 
Micro for them, directed him to sit down in the big Savanna, where they now are, 
and govern them. Some of the Chickasaws straggled off and settled near Augusta, 
from whence they returned and sat down near Cussetuh, and thence back to their 
nation. Cussetuh and Chickasaw have remained friends ever since their first 
acquaintance. 1 
Hawkins adds that on account of this friendship the Kasihta 
town refused to take part in the war between the Creeks and Chicka- 
saw in 1795. 1 As Hawkins wrote in 1799 it appears that this band 
of Chickasaw had rejoined their own people by that date. 
Still another outsettlement was on the lower course of the Ten- 
nessee River, where it is mentioned by Coxe 2 and some other very 
early writers, but it was soon abandoned for the main settlements. 
In comparatively late times a small body settled temporarily on 
the Ohio. 
In 1752 and 1753 the Chickasaw defeated MM. Benoist and 
Reggio. 3 Under date of August, 1754, the Colonial Documents of 
Georgia inform us that the Chickasaw bad been twice attacked, 
evidently referring to these expeditions, and reported that they 
could not stand a third assault without help. 4 Aid was in con- 
sequence sent to them. A little later war broke out with the Chero- 
kee and terminated about 1768 with a decisive Chickasaw victory on 
the Chickasaw old fields. 5 
During this period they were harassed more by the Choctaw and 
other French Indians than by the French, and their numbers fell off 
greatly in consequence. Romans, who visited their towns in 1771, 
compares them with the Choctaw rather to their own disadvantage. 
He says that the Chickasaw towns, or "town" as he chooses to call 
it, "they divide into seven by the names of Melattaw (i. e., hat and 
feather) ; Chatdaw (i. e., copper town) ; Chukafalaya (i. e., long town) ; 
Hikihaw (i. e., stand still); Chucalissa (i. e., great town); 8 Tuckahaw 
(i. e., a certain weed); and Ashuck Tioomna (i. e., red grass); This 
was formerly inclosed in palisadoes, and thus well fortified against 
the attacks of small arms, but now it lays open." 7 He says that the 
traders nicknamed this tribe "the breed," presumably on account 
of the extent to which it had intermixed with others and with the 
whites. He himself declares that there were only two genuine 
Chickasaw of the old stock living — one a man named Northwest. 
The fidelity which this tribe had displayed with but individual 
exceptions toward the English was afterwards transferred to the 
Americans, and few disputes arose between the two peoples. In 
1786 official relations with the United States Government began 
> Hawkins, Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., m, p. 83. » Haywood, Hist, of Tenn., pp. 446-462. 
1 French, Hist. Colls. La., 1850, p. 229. 'The translation is wrong. It means "town 
• Romans, Concise Nat. Hist. E. and W. Fla.,p. 59. deserted. " 
« Ga. Col. Rec., VI, pp. 448-450. » Romans, op. cit., p. 63. 
