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the eighteenth century, there is mention of a town called Wetumpka 

 near the Koasati settlement in Alabama, which probably branched 

 off from it. Mention of a "Coosada Old Town" on the middle course 

 of Choctawhatchee River in Vignoles map of Florida dated 1823, 

 shows that a section of this tribe must have gone to Florida but, if 

 so, its identity was soon lost. 



Plate 26 is a sketch of a Koasati Indian, named Stimafutchki, or 

 "Good Humor," presumably a chief, made by Trumbull in 1790 when 

 a delegation of Creeks visited President George Washington in New 

 York. Plate 27 shows the author's principal informant in 1910- 

 14, Jackson Langley, and his mother; and plate 28, the Koasati 

 Indian school near Kinder, La. 



Koasati population. — In 1750 the first estimate of Koasati under 

 that name gives 50 men. In 1760 there were 150 reported, and in the 

 census of 1761 this tribe and the Tamahita (part of the Yuchi) together 

 had 125 hunters. In 1772 Taitt reported 40 "Alibamons" in what was 

 evidently the Koasati town. In 1792, just before the emigration to 

 Louisiana began, they are said to have had 130 men, and in 1832 the 

 total population of the Koasati town in the Creek Nation was 82. 

 There is no later separate enumeration of this section of the Koasati. 

 In 1805 Sibley states that the Louisiana Koasati supposed there were 

 about 200 men in all their settlements. In 1814 Schermerhom esti- 

 mated a total Koasati population on Sabine River of 600, but 3 years 

 later Morse gives 350 on Red River, 50 on the Neches, and 240 on the 

 Trinity. In 1829 Porter gives only 180 Koasati, but BoUaert, in 1850, 

 estimates 500 warriors in two villages on the lower Trinity, a palpable 

 exaggeration. In 1882 the United States Indian Office estimated that 

 there were 290 Alabama, Koasati, and Muskogee in Texas, and this 

 figure was repeated through 1900. The census of the latter year, how- 

 ever, returned 470 of the allied tribes and the Indian Office repeated 

 this until 1911. In 1910 a special agent was sent to Texas, who omitted 

 the Koasati from his report, but the United States Census of 1910 

 returned 85 in Louisiana, 11 in Texas, and 2 in Nebraska, a total of 98. 

 The census of 1920 reported 136 Indians in Allen and Jefferson Par- 

 ishes, La., and in 1930, 274, the greater part of whom were undoubtedly 

 Koasati. 



KOLOMI OR KULUMI 



The name of this Muskogee town or tribe appears first in Cald- 

 eron's report dated 1675 when it was on the Chattahoochee River, 

 and the maps indicate that it was located in what is now Stewart 

 County, Ga., though Colomokee Creek in Clay County seems 

 to indicate another site. Still later these people removed to the Talla- 

 poosa, where they settled upon the east bank, but later crossed over. 



