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Kasihta was probably Cofitachequi
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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The first appearance of the Kasihta in documentary history is, I believe, in the De Soto chronicles as the famous province of Cofitachequi, 3 Cutifachiqui,4 Cofitachyque,4 Cofitachique,5 or Cofaciqui.8 Formerly it was generally held that this was Yuchi. The name has, however, a Muskhogean appearance, and Dr. F. G. Speck, our leading Yuchi authority, is unable to find any Yuchi term resembling it. In fact, with one doubtful exception, he is unable to discover any name in the De Soto narratives which resembles a Yuchi word even remotely. [Note: The exception is the name Yubaha which I have discovered to be from Timucua; see p. 81.] (Swanton)
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