The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13

the Indian words being inserted to show the exact meaning:
 There are in the forks of Rcd rivel (We-cha -te- hat-che au-fus-ke) west ot Mississippi (We-o-coof-ke, Muddy water) two mounds of earth. Al this asplace the Cussetuh. Cowetuh and Gthickassw found themselves. They were al, loss for hre Here they were visited by the Hi-you- yul-gee four men who came from the four corners of the earth One of these asked the Indians where they would have their fire (tote-kit-caU. They pointed te | a place: it was made: and they sat down | around it. One of these visitors showed | them the pas-sau: another showed theh | mic-co-ho yon-ejau. then the au-chen- | au (cedar) and tooloh (sweet bay), the sacred plants. seven in all. After this l the four visitors disappeared in a cloud going from whence they came. After this some other Indians came from the west met them and had a great wrestle witt l the three towns; they made ball sticks and played with them, with bows and arrows and the war clpb (au-tus-sau) They fell out and fought and killed eacf other After this warning Ithe three towns moved eastwardly, and they met the Au- be-cuh at Coosa river. Here they agreed 1 to go to war for four years against theii 1 first enemy.
 l It will be noted that Tus-se-kiah Mic, | co begins his story back at time wheI | the Cussetuh, Cowetuh and Chickasav | towns were together in the forks of a | river known to them as the Red river, v where they have two mounds of earth, and that this river was located beyond the stream known as We-o-koof- Ike, identi fled by Hawkins as the Mississippi. When they arrived at the Coosa river they met the Au-be-cuh, evidently the O-be kaws referred to by Tonlochi-chi in his account as given to Governor Oglethorpe No mention is made of any mounds here, nor in fact of any town. They also were evidently of the same race, for they al
 once entered into an agreement to go to
 war not to fight among themselves. but
 against their first enemyI" probably ths
 white race their common enemy who had
 driven them from their ancestral homes
 beyond the Mississippi By agreement
 ehey piled their scalps in four separate
 oiles the Aube-cuh pile being the small,
 est the Chickasaw next, ICowetuh next
 and Cussetuh the highest 'of all On this
 showing the two towns last. named
 aised each scalp pole Gtlo-chate, Red B Aood) The Choctaws are, not named as
 part of this crowd of Indians. and Bar
 tram may be right in his Conjecture that
 hey came at a little later date
 After it had been settled as to which
 If the tribes were to be allowed to raise
 the scalp pole. and which was first in
 rank. CussetgA claiming that honor
 rus-se- -kiah Niece say;s, They then
 commenced their settlements on the Coo
 aw and Tallapoosaw. anI crossing the
 falls of Tal-la -poo-saw above Tool-cau
 3atche they visited the Chat-ta- -ho- che md found d race of peDp,e with fla
 reads in possession of the mounds in the
 Gus tuh fields.
 These people they attacked and de. feated and later found another town neal by known later and possibly then. az "Palachacola' or ''Apalacflacola." It was below "PalacheF and .Apalachaco- la." Fla, that DeSoto on landing found Ucita, an "Isdian lord whose house stood near the shore upon very higf mount made by hand for strength. | "The town was of seven or eighi l huoses." It might be added that Apa | lache is Creek word and means Help 1 CT or ito help" and Apalachacola | 1 identified as corruption of this same name with the word okla (meanns 1 .people'D added, But the flat headed i, udians may have been Wchees. who il l is agreed spoke different snguagt l from the Creeks, a language which nt i Creek Indian ever learned, and who Vel
 lived as a. part of the great Creek ma
 tion