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Hechapususse. — Bell in Morse, Rep. to Sec. War, 

 307, 1822. Helch-puck[sasy].— H. R. Ex. Doc. 74 

 (1823), 19th Cong., 1st sess., 23, 1826 (the last two 

 syllables of this name are joined to the next 

 town name, -chicu-chaty.) Hich-a-pue-susse. — 

 Bell, op. cit. Hichipucksassa. — Tavlor, War map, 

 1839. 



Hitchiti (Creek: ahUchita, ' to look up- 

 stream ' ). A Muskhogean tribe formerly 

 residing chiefly in a town of the same 

 name on the e. bank of Chattahoochee 

 r., 4 m. below Chiaha, and possessing a 

 narrow strip of good land bordering on 

 the river, in w. Georgia. When Haw- 

 kins visited them in 1799 they had spread 

 out into two branch settlements— one, the 

 Hitchitudshi, or Little Hitchiti, on both 

 sides of Flint r. below the junction of 

 Kinchafoonee or., which passes through a 

 country named after it; the other, Tuta- 

 losi, on a branch of Kinchafoonee cr. , 20 m. 

 w. of Hitchitudshi. The tribe is not often 

 mentioned in history, and appears for the 

 first time in 1733, when two of its del- 

 egates, with the Lower Creek chiefs, met 

 Gov. Oglethorpe at Savannah. The lan- 

 guage appears to have extended beyond 

 the limits of the tribe as here defined, as it 

 was spoken not only in the towns on the 

 Chattahoochee, as Chiaha, Chiahudshi, 

 Hitchiti, Oconee, Sawokli, Sawokliudshi, 

 and Apalachicola, and in those on Flint 

 r., but by the Mikasuki, and, as trace- 

 able by the local names, over considera- 

 ble portions of Georgia and Florida. The 

 Seminole are also said to have been a 

 half Creek and half Hitchiti speaking 

 people, although their language is now 

 almost identical with Creek; and it is 

 supposed that the Yamasi likewise spoke 

 the Hitchiti language. This language, 

 like the Creek, has an archaic form 

 called "woman's talk," or female lan- 

 guage. The Hitchiti were absorbed into 

 and became an integral part of the Creek 

 Nation, though preserving to a large ex- 

 tent their own language and peculiar 

 customs. (a.s. G.) 



Achilla.— Jefferys, French Dom. Am., i, 1.34, map, 

 1761 (incorrectly located; false orthography). 

 At-pasha-shliha.— Gatschet, Koasati MS., B. A. E. 

 (Koasati name: 'mean people'). Echeetees. — 

 Carver, Travels, map, 1778. Echeles. — Jert'erys, 

 Am. Atlas, 7, 1776 (town on Apalachicola r., Ga.). 

 Echeta.— Bartram, Trav., 462, 1791. Echetas— 

 Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. iv, 29, 1848. Echetee.— Lat- 

 tr6, map, U.S., 1784 (1, on Chattahoochee; 2, on 

 Altamaha). Echetes. — Jefferys, French Dom. Am., 

 I, 134, map 1761 (two towns, incorrectly located). 

 Echeti. — Mandrillon, Spectateur Americain, map, 

 1785. Echetii.— Alcedo, Die. Geog., n, 60, 1787 

 (on Echesii r., Ga.). Echitis.— Ibid, (on Apa- 

 lachicola r.). Echitos.— Peniere in Morse, Rep. 

 to Sec. War, 311, 1822. Etchitas.— Doc. of 1747 in 

 McCall, Hist. Ga., i, 367, 1811. Etichita.— Jones, 

 Hist. Ga., 1, 134, 1873. Euchitaws.— Gatschet, Creek 

 Migr. Leg., ii, 9,1888. Hatchita.— Robin, Voy., i, 

 map, 1807. Hichetas. — Woodward, Reminiscenses, 

 25, 38, 18.59. Hilchittees.— Stevens, Hist. Ga., 51, 

 1847. Hitchatees.-Swan (1791) in Schoolcraft, 

 Ind. Tribes, v, 262, 1855. Hitchetaws.— U. S. Ind. 

 Treat. (1779), 69, 1837. Hit-che-tee.— Hawkins 

 (1799), Sketch, 64, 1848. Hitchies.— Schoolcraft, 

 Ind. Tribes, l, 239, 1851. Hilchittees.— Drake, Bk. 

 Inds., bk. vni, 1848. Hitch-ity.— Duval (1894) in 



Sen. Ex. Doc. 49, 31st Cong., 1st sess., 144,1850. 

 Ichiti. — Ratinesque, introd. Marshall, Kv., I, 24, 

 1824. Kitaheeta.— Barnard (1792) in Am. State 

 Papers, Ind. Aff., i, 309, 1832 (misprint). 



Hitchiti. A town of the Creek Nation, 

 Ind. Ter., on Deep fork of Canadian r., 

 about midway between Eufaula and Oc- 

 mulgee. 



Hitchita.— P. O. Guide, 367, 1904. Hitchiti.— 

 Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., n, 185, 1888. 



Hitchitipusy. A former village, prob- 

 ably Seminole, a few miles s. e. of Ft 

 Alabama, and the same distance n. e. of 

 Ft Brooke, both of which forts were on 

 Hillsboro r., Fla.— H. R. Doc. 78, 25th 

 Cong., 2d sess., 768-9, map, 1838. 



Hitchitudshi. A branch settlement of 

 Hitchiti on Flint r., Ga., below its junc- 

 tion with Kinchafoonee cr. 

 Hitchatooche.— Rovce in 18th Rep. B. A. E., Ga. 

 map, 1900. Hit-che-too-che.— Hawkins (1779), 

 Sketch, 65, 1848. Hitchitudshi.— Gatschet, Creek 

 Migr. Leg., I, 77, 131, issi. Little Hit-chetee.— 

 Hawkins, op. cit. Little Hitchiti. — Gatschet, op. 

 cit. 



Hitschowon. A former Chumashan vil- 

 lage on the harbor of Santa Cruz id., off 

 the coast of California. 



Hits-tc6'-wbn. — Henshaw, Buenaventura MS. vo- 

 cab., B. A. E.,1884. 



Hitshinsuwit. A former Yaquina village 

 on the s. side of Yaquina r., Oreg. 

 Hi'-iDin-su'-wIt. — Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, 

 ni, 229, 1890. 



Hittoya ('westerners.' — Kroeber). A 

 division of the Mi wok on upper Chow- 

 chilla r., Mariposa co., Cal. 

 Heth-to'-ya.— Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., in, 

 349, 1877. Hittoya,— A. L. Kroeber, inf'n, 1903. 



Hiwaitthe. A former Yaquina village 

 on the s. side of Yaquina r., Oreg. 

 Hi'-wai-i'-t'fe.— Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, 

 ni, 229, 1890. 



Hiwassee {Ayuhvn^st, 'savanna,' 'mead- 

 ow ' ) . The name of several former Chero- 

 kee settlements. The most important, 

 commonly distinguished by the Cherokee 

 as Ayuhwa'sl EgwA^hi, or Great Hiwas- 

 see, was on the n. bank of Hiwassee r., 

 at the present Savannah ford, above 

 Columbus, Polk co. , Tenn. Another was 

 farther up the same river, at the junction 

 of Peachtree cr., above Murphy, Cherokee 

 CO., N. C— Mooney in 19th Rep.B. A.E., 

 512, 1900. 



Ayuhwa'si. — Mooney, op. cit. Euforsee. — Doc. of 

 1755 quoted by Royce in 5th Rep. B. A. E., 142, 

 1887. Highwassee. — Doc. of 1799 quoted by Royce, 

 ibid., 144. Hiwasse.— Bartram, Travels, 371, 1792. 

 Owassa. — Lanman quoted by Mooney, op. cit. 



Hiyaraba ('panther'). A clan of the 

 Acheha phratry of the ancient Timucua 

 of Florida. — Pareja (c a. 1614) quoted by 

 Gatschet in Am. Philos. Soc. Proc, xvii, 

 492, 1878. 



Hiyayulge ('tree trunk'). A former 

 Maricopa village on Gila r., s. Ariz. 



Hiyayulge. — ten Kate, inf'n, 1888. TJskbk. — Ibid. 

 (Pima name). 



Hizo. A division of the Varohio which 

 occupied the pueblo of Taraichi in Chi- 

 nipas valley, w. Chihuahua, Mexico. — 

 Orozco y Berra, Geog., 58, 324, 1864. 



