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Tohome population. — In 1700 Iberville was given to understand by 

 the Pascagoula Indians that there were 300 warriors in the Tohome 

 tribe and as many more Mobile Indians but, after visiting them him- 

 self in 1702, he reduced his estimate for the two to 350. About 30 

 years later, Du Pratz states that they were about as numerous as the 

 Chatot who occupied 40 cabins. In 1758 Governor De Kerlerec con- 

 sidered that the Mobile, Tohome, and Naniaba together had about 

 100 warriors. (See Mobile.) 



TUKABAHCHEE 



This town or tribe is supposed to have immigrated into the Gulf 

 region from the north. Spanish letters written late in the seven- 

 teenth century speak of it in connection with the Coweta, Kasihta, 

 and Oconee, so that it would appear to have been in some part of 

 Georgia at that time. However, Tukabahchee Tallahassee, although 

 the name of an Okfuskee town, probably received its designation from 

 the fact that it had occupied a site formerly held by Tukabahchee In- 

 dians. It was on the upper course of Tallapoosa River, and in 1675 

 Bishop Calderon indicates that the Tukabahchee were either on the 

 Tallapoosa or the Coosa. An early location of the tribe in Alabama 

 is therefore to be assumed. In any case, it soon established itself in 

 the bend of the Tallapoosa where it turns west, and it continued at 

 this point until the Creeks removed to Oklahoma. When the Creek 

 War broke out, these Indians refused to join the hostile party and re- 

 tired to the neighborhood of their friends the Coweta until it was 

 over. Except for a small village mentioned by Hawkins called Wi 

 hiti, or "Sweet Water," no branches of this town are known, though 

 its relations with Atasi and Kealedji were very intimate. In Okla- 

 homa, the Tukabahchee first established their Square Ground in the 

 southeastern part of the Creek territory near Melette post office, but 

 later they removed it to Yeager north of Holdenville, where it was 

 maintained until a very recent date. 



Tvkohahchee population. — The following estimates of warriors 

 have been made : 100 in 1738, more than 50 in 1750, 200 in 1760, 

 90 in 1761, including some Yuchi, 120 in 1772, and 116 in 1799, the 

 last supposedly by actual count. The census of 1832-33 credited this 

 town with 1,287 souls. 



TUNICA 



Tradition and early records point to northwestern Mississippi and 

 the neighboring parts of Arkansas as far as the Ouachita as an early 

 home of this tribe, but by 1682 they had concentrated upon Yazoo 

 Kiver a few miles above its mouth, though parties were scattered 

 through the forests of northeastern Louisiana to boil salt with which 



