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Chikilli delivered the earliest form of the Creek migration legend
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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The Kasihta The honorary name of this tribe in the Creek Confederacy was Kasihta lako, "Big Kasihta." According to the earliest form of the Creek migration legend that is available—that related to Governor Oglethorpe by Chikilli in 1735—the Kasihta and Coweta came from the west "as one people," but in time those dwelling toward the east came to be called Kasihta and those to the west Coweta.1 This ancient unity of origin appears to have been generally admitted down to the present time. According to John Goat, an aged Tulsa Indian, they were at first one town, and when they separated the pot of medicine which had been buried under their busk fire was dug up and its contents divided between them. He also maintained that anciently Kasihta was the larger and more important of the two, and others state the same, while on the point of numbers, they are confirmed by the census of 1832.3 Oftener the Coweta were given precedence. (Swanton)
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