Hitchiti (/ hɪˈtʃɪti / hih-CHIH-tee) was a tribal town in what is now the Southeast United States. It was one of several towns whose people spoke the Hitchiti language. It was first known as part of the Apalachicola Province, an association of tribal towns along the Chattahoochee River.

Hitchiti Tribe, Hitchiti Indians (Creek: ahítchita, ‘to look upstream’). A Muskhogean tribe formerly residing chiefly in a town of the same name on the east bank of Chattahoochee River, 4 miles below Chiaha, and possessing a narrow strip of good land bordering on the river, in west Georgia.

At one time the Hitchiti were probably the most important tribe in southern Georgia and their language the prevailing speech in that region from the Chattahoochee River to the Atlantic Ocean. Nevertheless the true Muskogee entered at such an early period that we can not say we have historical knowledge of a time when the Hitchiti were its sole ...

The Hitchiti were a Muskogean-speaking tribe formerly residing chiefly in a town of the same name on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River, 4 miles below Chiaha, in west Georgia. They spoke the Hitchiti language, which was mutually intelligible with Mikasuki; both tribes were part of the loose Creek confederacy.

2023年8月11日 · The Creeks, who occupied the Northern Creek territory, called themselves the Muscogee, and those who occupied the Southern Territory, called themselves the Hitchiti or Alabama. The tribe, whose history dates back to the 17th century, boasts a rich ancestry and culture that still survives.

The Sáwokli tribe, settled in the Indian Territory, have united there with the Hitchiti, a circumstance which seems to point to ancient relationship. Like the Creeks, the Hitchiti have an ancient female dialect, still remembered and perhaps spoken by the older people, which was formerly the language of the males also.

2023年10月27日 · The Hitchiti (/ hiːˈtʃiːtiː / hee-CHEE-tee) were a historic indigenous tribe in the Southeast United States. They formerly resided chiefly in a town of the same name on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River, four miles below Chiaha, in western present-day Georgia. The natives possessed a narrow strip of good land bordering on the river.

2008年3月23日 · Deals with all nations once belonging to the Creek Confederacy: Hitchiti, Alabama, and Choctaw groups; Tuskegee, Guale, Yamasee, Cusabo, Chatot, Osochi; Muskogee and Natchez branches; Uchean and Timuquanan stock; South Florida Indians; Tamahiti

Hitchiti was a Muskogean language of the American Southeast, which today is no longer spoken. It was very closely related to the still-living Miccosukee language, and some linguists consider the two to be dialects of a single Hitchiti-Mikasuki language.

Book comparing the traditional stories of the Hitchiti and other Southeast tribes. Index of Hitchiti Indian legends, folktales, and mythology.