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the river, probably to be identified with Pine Island, a few miles 

 above the great bend. The Koasati were living at the upper end of 

 this island and it seems evident from the statements of later writers 

 that the two tribes combined soon afterward, both appearing from 

 that time on under the name Koasati (q. v.). 



Kaskinam'po population, — An early French document, probably 

 basing its information on a visit made to this tribe in 1701 by some 

 Canadians, gives the number of warriors as 150. 



KEALEDJI 



Traditionally, this is said to have been a branch of the Tukabah- 

 chee, but it is doubtful, since the early history of the two ran along 

 different channels. The name resembles the old Creek name of St. 

 Catherines Island. In a map dated between 1715 and 1720, it appears 

 on Ocmulgee River, but by 1733, if we may trust the map of Baron 

 de Crenay, it had removed to the Tallapoosa, where it seems to 

 have occupied several different places, moving finally to a creek 

 which came to bear the name Kowaliga. This flows into the 

 Tallapoosa on its western side above the falls. When Hawkins 

 described the situation of this town in 1799, there were two 

 branch villages, one on Atcina Hatchee (Cedar Creek) and the 

 other called Hatcheetcaba. This last appears as an independent 

 town as far back as 1760, or even in 1675, earlier than Kealedji, if the 

 "Archichepa" of Calderon is the same, and it retained a dance ground 

 of its own, though no regular square, after removing to Oklahoma. 

 The Kealedji settled in the southeastern part of the Creek reserve, 

 where they maintained a dance ground until very recent times. 



Kealedji population. — The Spanish census of 1738 gives 50 warriors 

 in this town and the French census of 1750, more than 25, not counting 

 a few Hatcheetcaba Indians. In 1760 the figure for Kealedji is raised 

 to 130, but those in Hatcheetcaba are enumerated among the Indians 

 of Wiwohka. The enumeration of 1761 gives 40 hunters here and those 

 of Hatcheetcaba and Otciapof a together as 20. The number of gunmen 

 reported by Taitt in 1772 was 70, and by Marbury in 1792, 100 not 

 counting 20 in Atcina Hatchee and part of 30 credited to Hatcheetcaba 

 and Otciapofa. The United States census of 1832 returned a total 

 population of 591 for Kealedji, and 201 for Hatcheetcaba. 



KETAUWEE 



A tribe found by Lawson in 1701 living in a palisaded village not 

 far from the present High Point, N. C, the males said to have the pecu- 

 liarity of wearing beards and mustaches. Their chief at that time was 

 8 Congaree, who had obtained his position by marrying the Keyauwee 

 chieftainess. There is evidence that their former home was farther 



