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TimePortal30 Mar 2024 1:26 p.m. PST

So I am reviewing treaties from the 1700s and found lists of chiefs who signed it and good given to a few.
Wolf king, cowetta king, Long Lieutenant, Wyokees Long Second Man
Bird tail mico, The Singer or Opay mico, Blue Giver/ Halletekalhle, Hopothe mico/Tallisee, Long Side/ Opotoache, Sholessee/ Long Second Man, Tuskenaah/ Big Lieutenant, Chawookly mico, Coosades Hopoy/ The Measurer, Stimafuthkee/ Good Humor, Stilnaleeje/ The Disputer, The Miser / Muthtee.
Several Scots traders became part of the Creek ruling clan so them or their sons signed as well. Matthews / Chinnable, Aleck Cornel / Ocheehajou

When it came to signing treaties, the giving of presents played a key part. I saw a list of mico sand their gifts. The importance of the mico determined their gifts. They were often given both goods and deer skins. The deerskins were classified as buck, larger or doe skins. Some were given a choice of type which was often a one buck or two doe skin swap.
Examples of trade goods, only one per mico were large Hatchet, felling axe, dozen buttons, a hat, white shirt, two yards of brass wire, leather belt, large brass kettle, a hoe, a knife, a white blanket, a blue blanket, musket, pistol, gun lock, sixty bullets, two measures of powder, eighteen flints. Several times were yards of various types of cloth given out.
I have more names if interested.

Personal logo ochoin Supporting Member of TMP30 Mar 2024 5:15 p.m. PST

"Ocheehajou".

That might be slightly modified Gaelic.

TimePortal30 Mar 2024 5:35 p.m. PST

There were many more chiefs or micos listed. None of less than six letters. Lol.
If you want more I will list them. Just ask. The gifts list was from 1733. The chiefs from 1757 Savannah treaty.

epturner30 Mar 2024 6:02 p.m. PST

Given that you are looking for "micos", that is a Southeastern term, you might want to be a little more specific in your request.

There is a wide diversity in names based on region and tribe and clan.

What makes sense in the Algonquin language, might not translate to your SE Amerindians.

Eric

TimePortal30 Mar 2024 6:45 p.m. PST

I have one list of Iroquois chiefs who signed a treaty. The author of the article included a handy pronunciation guide with the names.

You are correct. I should have been clearer that the treaties are on Upper and Lower Creeks.
My articles and primer books on the Muskogee is how I ran into the treaties. One I noticed show the Confederation of the Muskogee by adopting stay tribes into the confederation. The Natchez were driven east by the French and joined the group. The Shawnee were driven south after 1757 and one group of refugees were allowed to settle on the Coosa River at Sylacauga which meant Buzzards Roost.

One 1790 treaty was designed so the Creeks would not be stabbed in the back by Americans while the Lower Creek Muskogee Free State conducted a war against the Spanish in Florida. See my article on the war in a past issue of Time Portal Passages.

TimePortal31 Mar 2024 6:26 a.m. PST

So more on the Gaelic comment. Sorry to be delayed.
Entirely possible since the treaties were signed in Georgia. Georgia was settled mainly by Scots. So since their was no written Muskogee language, the names were spelled based on phonics.
I read one history which had multiple spelling of the same group of towns. Early Creeks were Hitatachi speakers. Later groups were Muskogee speakers.

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