Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14578694548)

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Title: Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864. dn United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. cn
Subjects: Indians of North America United States
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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n reappeared at subsequent and separate periods, under the bannersof Narvaez and De Soto, they encountered the most determined and unflinchinghostility. §. The Chicorean Indians, who thus defended their coasts from invasion, appear tohave been the ancient Ucheos, who are now merged as an inconsiderable clementin the great Muscogee family; but who still preserve proud notions of their ancientcourage, fame, and glory. This is the testimony of competent observers, and amongthem, tlic late Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, who was familiar withthe Indian international affairs of the South, having in earlier life held public treatieswith the tribes, and faced the most determined of them in battle. We are informed by Col. Benjamin Hawkins, Creek Agent, that the licheesformerly dwelt at Ponpon, Saltketchers, and Silver Bluffs, in the belt of countrywhich is now partly in Georgia and partly in South Carolina; and that they were Herrera. Sketch of the Creek Country in 179S-1709.
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GENERAL HISTORY. 27 continually at war with the Muscogees, Cherokees, and Catawbas. By the fonnernation they were vanquished and nearly annihilated, and the remainder of themAvere carried away and incorporated with themselves, where the name and a few of thepeople still remain. When De Soto in 1539 reached Silver Bluff on the Savanna,the ancient Cofotchique, the Indians of that place exhibited to him pieces of armourand arms, which the Spaniards determined to have belonged to DAyllon. That theMuscogees prevailed oAcr the lichees, is shoAvn by the Muscogee words which arefound in the names of the streams and places of the southern part of the searcoast of South Carolina.^ §. The defeat of Yalasquez DAjllon (Plate 1) appears to have been about 1515 or151G. It operated to discourage the Spanish from attempting further conquests inthat quarter for many years, where, however, it appears from the map in the thirdvolume of Navarette, tliat the limits of the discoveries of De Soto extended m