Hitchiti

The Hitchiti were a Native American people of North America. The name derives from the Muskogee name ahit chita which translates as "Look up the river " from means. Their language belonged to the Muskogean language family. They lived mainly in a town of the same name. This city was located on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River, about 6 km below Chiaha. Their habitat also included a Narrow, limited by the river strip of land in the west of Georgia. Their language is the extinct Hitchiti is very closely related to the language of the Mikasuki. Mikasuki is still spoken by about 500 people in Florida. The language is considered as a modern dialect of Hitchiti.

When Benjamin Hawkins attended the Hitchiti in 1799, they lived in two settlements. One of them Hitchitudshi, also known as Little Hitchiti was located on both banks of the Flint River below the mouth of Kinchafoonee Creek. The second settlement Tutalosi was located 32 km west of Hitchitudschi.

The nation is historically mentioned for the first time in 1733, when two of its members to the Lower Creek chiefs met for talks with the British Governor James Oglethorpe in Savannah.

The language of Hitchiti was not only spoken in your settlements on the Chattahoochee River, but also in the cities of the Lower Creek as in Chiaha, Chiahudshi, Oconee, Sawokli, Sawokliudshi and in Apalachicola. Furthermore, even in the Mikasuki, as well as parts of Georgia and Florida understandable in the local naming.

This language which is similar to the Creek, but has a more archaic form is also referred to as a so-called female speech.

You may also spoke the Yamasee Hitchiti, but there is no clear evidence whether they have not yet spoken its own language or the language of the Guale.

The Hitchiti were a part of the Creek Nation, though by retaining a part of your language and customs. The Mikasuki who immigrated with members of the Lower Creek to Florida and there were the people of the Seminoles were able to reorganize as an independent tribe.