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on the other hand, represent a late separatist movement, and there is 

 available a somewhat independent set of authorities dealing with 

 them. 



Our principal sources of information for the rest of the Creek Con- 

 federacy are the works of William Bartram, Benjamin Hawkins, Le 

 Clerc Milfort, Bernard Romans, Caleb Swan, George Stiggins, James 

 Adair, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Albert S. Gatschet, Frank G. Speck, 

 and my own notes. 



For the Seminole and Mikasuki we rely upon James Adair, William 

 Bartram, Benjamin Hawkins, Clay MacCauley, Alanson Skinner, 

 A. S. Gatschet, Alexander Spoehr, and some recent work by Minnie 

 Moore Wilson and Frances Densmore, to which I have added a few 

 notes drawn from the western Seminole. 



Practically everything regarding the Apalachee must be taken from 

 the Spanish records beginning with those of the Narvaez and De 

 Soto expeditions, and but little remains outside of their history and 

 one short text in their language. 



A small body of material which applies to the Alabama in distinc- 

 tion from the rest of the Creeks may be derived from Bossu, Hawkins, 

 Schoolcraft, Gatschet, and some of my own notes. 



Adair and Stiggins give us a little information regarding the pecu- 

 liarities of the Koasati, and there are a few notes from Hawkins, 

 Gatschet, and myself. 



The Tuskegee have been made the subject of a special report by 

 Frank G. Speck. 



In a recent publication (Swanton, 1931) I have assembled all of the 

 more readily available source material on the Choctaw except that 

 bearing on their material culture. Among the original sources must 

 be mentioned an anonymous French document preserved in the New- 

 berry Library, Chicago, of the Choctaw section of which I published 

 a translation some years back, and I have reproduced the original in 

 the appendix to the Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin just cited 

 (Swanton, 1931). To these must be added Adair, M. Bossu, George 

 Catlin, J. F. H. Claiborne, H. B. Cushman, Le Clerc Milfort, Bernard 

 Romans, A. S. Gatschet, Henry S. Halbert, John Edwards, D. I. Bush- 

 nell, Jr., and the reports of some of the early French explorers, notably 

 De Lusser and Regis du RouUet. 



Chickasaw material is not so extensive, but here we have one great 

 advantage in that it was the tribe which James Adair knew best, and 

 his material regarding the Chickasaw is basal to everything in the 

 Southeast inside and outside of that tribe. To this may be added 

 many names of the Choctaw authorities already mentioned, such as 

 the anonymous French memoir, Claiborne, Cushman, and particu- 

 larly Romans, a paper printed in Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes, and 

 recent notes by Speck. 



