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The Tukabahchee are generally considered leaders of the modern Creek nation
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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The Tukabahchee are considered by most Creek Indians at the present day as the leaders of the nation. Nevertheless Milfort,1 and also Adair,2 on the authority of a Tukabahchee chief of his time, declare that they had formerly been a distinct people. This question will be considered again when we come to take up Tukabahchee history, but it may be said that, even though the tribe were once distinct, it would not necessarily follow that its language was also different. There is, at all events, little reason to suppose it was anything other than some Muskhogean dialect. A foreign origin is also attributed to the Okchai Indians by the same writers. Some of the living Okchai appear to remember a tradition to this effect, but while it is probably correct there is no further proof, and there is no likelihood that their ancient speech was anything other than Muskogee.3 (Swanton)
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