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  INDIAN 
  LINGUISTIC 
  FAMILIES. 
  

  

  GEOGRAPHIC 
  DISTRIBUTION. 
  

  

  The 
  Tonkawa 
  were 
  a 
  migratory 
  people 
  and 
  a 
  colluvies 
  gentium, 
  

   whose 
  earliest 
  habitat 
  is 
  unknown. 
  Their 
  first 
  mention 
  occurs 
  in 
  

   L719; 
  at 
  that 
  time 
  and 
  ever 
  since 
  they 
  roamed 
  in 
  the 
  western 
  and 
  

   southern 
  parts 
  of 
  what 
  is 
  nowTexas. 
  About 
  1847 
  they 
  were 
  engaged 
  

   as 
  scouts 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  Stales 
  Army, 
  and 
  from 
  L860-'62 
  (?) 
  were 
  in 
  

   the 
  Indian 
  Territory; 
  after 
  the 
  secession 
  war 
  till 
  1884 
  they 
  lived 
  in 
  

   temporary 
  camps 
  near 
  Fort 
  Griffin, 
  Shackelford 
  County, 
  Texas, 
  and 
  

   in 
  October, 
  L884, 
  they 
  removed 
  to 
  the 
  Indian 
  Territory 
  (now 
  on 
  

   Oakland 
  Reserve). 
  In 
  1881 
  there 
  were 
  seventy-eight 
  individuals 
  

   living; 
  associated 
  with 
  them 
  were 
  nineteen 
  Lipan 
  Apache, 
  who 
  had 
  

   lived 
  in 
  their 
  company 
  for 
  many 
  years, 
  though 
  in 
  a 
  separate 
  camp. 
  

   They 
  have 
  thirteen 
  divisions 
  (partly 
  totem-clans) 
  and 
  observe 
  moth- 
  

   er-right. 
  

  

  UCHEAN 
  FAMILY. 
  

  

  =Uchees, 
  Gallatin 
  in 
  Trans, 
  and 
  Coll. 
  Am. 
  Antiq. 
  Soc., 
  n.,95, 
  1836 
  (based 
  upon 
  the 
  

  

  Uchees 
  alone). 
  Bancroft, 
  Hist. 
  U. 
  S. 
  , 
  m., 
  247, 
  1840. 
  Gallatin 
  in 
  Trans. 
  Am. 
  

  

  Eth. 
  Soc. 
  II., 
  pt. 
  1. 
  xcix. 
  77. 
  1848. 
  Keane, 
  App. 
  Stanford's 
  Comp. 
  (( 
  Vnt. 
  and 
  So. 
  

  

  Am.). 
  472. 
  1878 
  (suggests 
  that 
  the 
  language 
  may 
  have 
  heen 
  akin 
  to 
  Natchez). 
  

   =Utchees, 
  Gallatin 
  in 
  Trans, 
  and 
  Coll, 
  Am. 
  Antiq. 
  Soc, 
  II., 
  306, 
  1836. 
  Gallatin 
  in 
  

  

  Schoolcraft. 
  Ind. 
  Tribes, 
  in., 
  401, 
  1853. 
  Keane, 
  App. 
  Stanford's 
  Comp. 
  (Cent. 
  

  

  and 
  So. 
  Am.), 
  472, 
  1878. 
  

   =Utschies. 
  Berghaus 
  (1845), 
  Physik. 
  Atlas, 
  map 
  17. 
  1848. 
  Ibid.. 
  1852. 
  

   — 
  Uehe, 
  Latham. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  Man, 
  338, 
  1850 
  (Coosa 
  River). 
  Latham 
  in 
  Trans. 
  Philolog. 
  

  

  SocLond., 
  ii., 
  31-50, 
  1846. 
  Latham, 
  Opuscula, 
  293. 
  1860. 
  

   — 
  Yuchi. 
  Gatschet, 
  Creek 
  Mig. 
  Legend. 
  1, 
  17, 
  1884. 
  Gatschet 
  in 
  Science, 
  413, 
  April 
  

  

  2il. 
  1887. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  is 
  the 
  account 
  of 
  this 
  tribe 
  given 
  by 
  Gallatin 
  (prob- 
  

   ably 
  derived 
  from 
  Hawkins) 
  in 
  Archseologia 
  Americana, 
  page 
  95: 
  

  

  The 
  original 
  seats 
  of 
  the 
  Uchees 
  were 
  east 
  of 
  Coosa 
  and 
  probably 
  of 
  the 
  Chata- 
  

   hoochee;and 
  they 
  consider 
  themselves 
  as 
  the 
  most 
  ancient 
  inhabitants 
  of 
  the 
  coun- 
  

   try. 
  They 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  the 
  same 
  nation 
  which 
  is 
  called 
  Apalaches 
  in 
  the 
  ac- 
  

   counts 
  of 
  De 
  Soto's 
  expedition, 
  and 
  their 
  towns 
  were 
  till 
  lately 
  principally 
  on 
  Flint 
  

  

  River. 
  

  

  GEOGRAPHIC 
  DISTRIBUTION. 
  

  

  The 
  pristine 
  homes 
  of 
  the 
  Yuchi 
  are 
  not 
  now 
  traceable 
  with 
  any 
  

   degree 
  of 
  certainty. 
  The 
  Yuchi 
  are 
  supposed 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  visited 
  by 
  

   De 
  Soto 
  during 
  his 
  memorable 
  inarch, 
  and 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Cofitaehi<|ui 
  

   chronicled 
  by 
  him, 
  is 
  believed 
  by 
  many 
  investigators 
  to 
  have 
  stood 
  

   at 
  Silver 
  Bluff, 
  on 
  the 
  left 
  bank 
  of 
  the 
  Savannah, 
  about 
  25 
  miles 
  lie- 
  

   low 
  Augusta. 
  If, 
  as 
  is 
  supposed 
  by 
  some 
  authorities, 
  Cofitachiqui 
  

   was 
  a 
  Yuchi 
  town, 
  this 
  would 
  locate 
  the 
  Yuchi 
  in 
  a, 
  section 
  which, 
  

   when 
  first 
  known 
  to 
  the 
  whites, 
  was 
  occupied 
  by 
  the 
  Shawnee. 
  Later 
  

   the 
  Yuchi 
  appear 
  to 
  have 
  lived 
  somewhat 
  farther 
  down 
  the 
  Savannah, 
  

   on 
  the 
  eastern 
  and 
  also 
  the 
  western 
  side, 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  theOyeerhee 
  River. 
  

   and 
  also 
  upon 
  tracts 
  above 
  and 
  below 
  Augusta, 
  Georgia. 
  These 
  

   tracts 
  were 
  claimed 
  by 
  them 
  as 
  late 
  as 
  1736. 
  

  

  