The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-14

1 Half a Century e.-.--=
 himself at the crossing of Line Creek near where Walter Lucas once. had a stand and it was at that 6lace on I.ine Creek where the celebrated negro interpreter, John Mcqueen was born.
 The Tallasseees quit their old settle menta In the TaHadsEa country and they were immediately occupied by q band of nux iiste, m sF fl frf . chief called Chenubby and Hol- lander by ths nanns of Moniac. This man was the father of Sam Monfc. whom, in your book you call McNac thinkinx that he was Scotch. The chief Chenubby lived to be avery old man I knew him well as did any Indian in the nation. He was with General 1ackson in the Creek war:
 he was with mo in Florida in 1913; have often over camp Ire sat and listened to him tell over hts trouble kmong the French on the Mississippi and how the French had driven them | from their old homes and how he had I helped to drive the French from their l trading post at the fork of the Taila- I poosa and Coosa. It was his son. 1 young Chsnubby or serlotta Fixico | | General Jackson's camp. The story of the hos skin over the Indian Is all a
 But to return to the spaniards: You I see they speak of Coosa and Taltse I those names are easy to pronounce and I they no doubt visited those towns; | but you never hear Tuckabatchy nam sd for they were not ct the place. F i was nt Tfsisa. w&sia tisst the Indians | s9ntxDS 4ka nnxx.ANs MuH hrA nfafeN l that you have heard spoken of The l Indians say that after De Soto failed to l find gold In northern Georgia and | Alabama he sfeered his'icourse 6 iik- | tie mort of west for the Mississippi: | some starved and many died with dis ease. end that De Soto himself with Is small portion of men some Creeks.
 choctaws and others trisd to reach
 DE SOTO LIED INDIANS
 l TO THE WEST. | He promised ths indians that ac-
 companied him that he cou1d make I peace with CoFtas or the Spaninrds who had driven them from their old homes.
 And not lar from q small lake and l west of Red River be built a fort to protect hilnsslf from the Nakhitoches
 and Nagodaehea Tndians: that he there I died. This Is the account given by l ali Tndians ana those that were &C., I quafnted with their traditions rela-
 tive to the march of Ds. Soto across the
 country.
 Ths fort is yet visible t is known \ as sAxadyse. It is In in Natchltochcs 1 Parish in this state. This was Colo: l mel siias Dinsfuors's account obtained from the chectaws and Chicssaws
 who wes their agent ct Rn early date
 and man of great intelligence. Il ] wAs also the account that old @r
 Peecheland aMva. who lived aEaonn
 them for a great many years. The Creek Indians aRy that they once had 6 giant waFrior called Tuotenugga Lust, or Black Warrior. But Tusca Isoosa. is { mixed word of Greek .ant . Chocthw. Tuaea is Creek ana sikni. .l fss awaFEIor. Lsopna Ia chocktaw aut |. 1iwnfilAa .haack. But whether ial wal } | this zssn that fought De Soto I nevei heard but have always understood thal at Thlea Wslla swasy thss piaee thes The old French ana spahish set tiers on Rsd River sald that the ds , | seendants of De soto's men s--wer' 1 among the natives when those na , l tiOns, France and Spalns began settl , | ing Loulsiana. Ali this has sattsfiet 1 mo that Indians were more reltahl. . in their traditions of 4this light thar men that have written so much. ar' in 70 few instances hawe given th'
 true Indian character as vel as shsi \ modes of living. And why am bek ter satisned that the Mauhiie fight tool s it's origin from the Thlea Walla fight | ta that there were but few remains o ] Indian settlements on the Alabama river below the mouth of the Cahawbi The Coosa, T&iiapoosa. ChaktAhOOches I I and their waters ware thickiy settled with Indians at, an early date. Th' 1 Maubiie er Movillas were once wes tern people. but visited and settle, s Alabama before the Greeks did. Ther, is yet q language that the Texas In dians cal1 Mobiiian, that has been thi trading language of almost all thi 1 Indians that have inhabited the coun
 try. I know white men that nov speak 1t. It lB . mixture of Creek
 Chootaw, Chickasew, Netches and Apa. lash.
 From she time Columbus, discovered this country. until De Soto's expadi
 ton was near half a century; and al most ell the nations that had any ship ping had became acquainted with th l New World and no GAubt that mos
 of Dc Soto's men that survived ant reached the coast picked up by coast ing vessels as the Indians have said l This is much more probable than tha II pose. And no doubt that there wef. ] occasional settlements. on the coast a that time of Europeans for pr. Turn.
 bull on settling colony of Minorcan or Greeks on the eant coast. below
 St. Augustine found the FemainR of al ancient elviiizatioA that the oldest q the natives then could give no accoun
 og. Turnbuil made this settlement
 while the English claimed Florida
 And when LAsafIs settled small co.
 iony in Texas. he found the remain L.bf civilization that he never could learn from the States at what time or by whom they executed read thes,
 accounts in little book picked uI
 at the house of one Fashaw in Eas
 Florida some forty-six years ago.
 kept the book many years. It con
 tained much valuable information ant
 treated much of the early settlement in the southwest by and much of whai
 1t contained have heard, it corrobOrat
 ed by others.
 yours,
 T s. W: