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Spanish control caused most of the Apalachicola Indians to migrate to the Uchis at Ochese

Source: The Debatable Land #557

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The Spanish policy seemed for a moment to have succeeded. In reality it had miscarried. The burning of the towns and the establishment of the fort in their midst were designed to keep the Indians loyal and the English out. Neither result followed. Instead the Indians were alienated. Most of them now abandoned their homes on the Chattahoochee and moved eastward to join the Uchis on the Ocmulgee. Thither the English promptly followed them. The Ocmulgee now became known to the English as Ocheese (Uchis) Creek, and the Indians as the Creeks. In Spanish circles, in a similar way, the Apalachicolas gradually became known as Uchis. [Para] It is the records of a dispute which reveal this new information concerning the migration of the Creeks.1 Quiroga asked the provincial for missionaries for the new outpost on the Chattahoochee. An argument ensued. Father Luna maintained that the Indians, afraid of the garrison, had fled east, "to find favor with the English." Quiroga denied the charge. He was able to prove that some of the Apalachicolas were still on the Chattahoochee; but it is equally clear by his own admission that some of them had moved east to the Uchis. Thus is solved the mystery of the appearance of the Lower Creeks on the Ocmulgee.