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the Tunica proper moved to the old Houma site near Red River and 

 the others were broken up in the Natchez war and joined the Chick- 

 asaw or Choctaw (Swanton, 1911, pp. 306-336). 



Just as the Tunica group appears to have been forced north, the 

 Chitimacha seem to have been driven in the opposite direction — 

 according to tradition, from the neighborhood of Natchez — until 

 they reached Grand Lake and Bayou Teche, while two branches of 

 the tribe settled on Bayou Lafourche (Swanton, 1911, pp. 337-359). 

 AVliether they displaced the related Atakapa in this region, or whether 

 the Atakapa merely occupied the country southwest of them as in 

 later times, we can only conjecture. There is reason to think that this 

 entire group constituted an eastern extension of Texas peoples and 

 were relatives of the Tonkawa, Karankawa, and Coahuilteco. 



Between 1540 and 1567 part of the Yuchi were in the mountains 

 of eastern Tennessee back from Tennessee River, but another part 

 seems to have been on that river above Muscle Shoals. Early maps 

 also indicate that in the late seventeenth century they had towns on 

 the Ohio, and we know that some of them lived for a time near La 

 Salle's fort in Illinois. When De Soto heard of them, it appears 

 probable that they were already moving south, and where their orig- 

 inal home lay has not yet been determined. By the latter half of the 

 seventeeth century they had penetrated to the upper Tennessee and 

 passed on southward as far as Augusta on Savannah River. Indeed, 

 before 1639 they had reached the boundaries of Florida and from that 

 time on were continually making trouble for the Spaniards. One 

 band settled in west Florida, whence they moved later to the Talla- 

 poosa and united with the Upper Creeks. In 1661 another band 

 attacked the Guale Indians and before 1670 they had destroyed 

 several Cusabo towns. From this time on Yuchi were generally 

 established on some part of Savannah River, but in 1751 the last of 

 them withdrew to the Lower Creeks with whom the largest single 

 body continued, and still continues, to make its home. However, a 

 number long remained in the Cherokee country, and one band under 

 a chief named Uchee Billy joined the Seminole and settled near 

 Spring Gardens (Swanton, 1922, pp. 286-312) . See, however, page 213. 



The De Soto and Pardo documents, particularly the latter, reveal 

 the important fact that Siouan tribes of the Catawba division once 

 occupied all of the present territory of South Carolina, and place 

 names point to their occupancy of parts of North Carolina. As we 

 have already seen, their own traditions claimed an original home 

 much farther toward the north. Partly as a result of Cherokee pres- 

 sure and partly from their desire to withdraw from the Spaniards, 

 some Catawba-speaking tribes later moved into central North Caro- 

 lina. The northern Siouan people — the Tutelo, Saponi, Monacan and 



