A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians, vol. 1 / With a Linguistic, Historic and Ethnographic Introduction

by Albert S. Gatschet

[64] Claiborne, Mississippi, Appendix, I, p. 485. 486.

[65] Cf. B. Romans, E. and W. Florida, p. 86-89.

[66] B. Romans, p. 86. He describes education among the Cha'hta, p. 76. 77; the sarbacane or blow-gun, p. 77.

[67] B. Romans, p. 89. 90.

[68] Cf. Lawson, History of Carolina (Reprint 1860), p. 297. More information on Cha'hta burials will be found in H. C. Yarrow, Indian mortuary customs; in First Report of U. S. Bureau of Ethnology, 1879-1880; especially p. 185.

[69] Missionary Herald of Boston, 1828 (vol. xxiv) p. 380, in an article on Religious Opinions, etc., of the Choctaws, by Rev. Alfred Wright.

[70] Published New York, 1877. pp. 99. 162.

[71] Nahúllo, nahúnlo means: greater, higher race, eminent race; though the original meaning is that of "more sacred, more honorable." A white man is called by the Cha'hta: nahúllo.

[72] Custusha creek runs into Kentawha creek, affluent of Big Black river, in Neshoba county.

[73] Claiborne, Mississippi, I, p. 518.