Abihka
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History
Origins
The Abihka[3] were the remnants of the 16th century "Chiefdom of Coosa."[4] The bulk of the Natchez people settled with the Abihka after being dispersed by the French in the 18th century.
By 1771, white traders had settled in the village with the indigenous peoples.[5]
Etymology
The name "Abihka" (meaning unknown), is sometimes used to refer to all the Upper Creek peoples.
Territory
The members of the Abihka were Upper Creek Indians. Their main place of residence was along the banks of the Upper Coosa and Alabama rivers,[6] in what is now Talladega County, Alabama.[7] Besides the town of Abihka, the Creek had established other important towns in their territory: Abihkutchi, Tuckabutche, Talladega, Coweta, and Kan-tcati. Selocta Chinnabby was a famous member of the Abihka Clan.
The town of Abihka lay about 159 miles to the south of the Chickasaw territory.[8]
Ceremonial grounds
After the removal to the Indian Territory, refugees from the Abihka mother-town established a ceremonial stomp dance ground which they call Abihka (or sometimes, Arbeka). It is located near Henryetta, Oklahoma.[9]
Alice Brown Davis and her husband, George Rollin Davis, operated a trading post, post office, general store and the Bar X Bar ranch in Arbeka until George's death. She succeeded him as postmistress in the 1890s.[10] There is an Arbeka Road in the area.
Notes
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- ^ Digital Alabama, The Creek Confederacy, s.v. Abihka
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Clark, Patricia Roberts (21 October 2009). Tribal Names of the Americas: Spelling Variants and Alternative Forms, Cross-Referenced. McFarland. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-7864-5169-2.
- ^ Also Abcha, Abeca, Abecaes, Abecka, Abeica, Abeika, Abeka, Abica, Abi'hka, Abihki, Abika, Abikaw.[2]
- ^ Waselkov and Smith; Upper Creek Archaeology; p. 244.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Romans, B. (1775). A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida. New York: Printed for the author. p. 309. OCLC 745317190.
- ^ Encyclopedia of North American Indians —Creek (Muskogee); retrieved Sept 8, 2010.
- ^ Isham, Theodore; and Blue, Clark; Creek (Mvskoke) Script error: No such module "webarchive". "Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture;" retrieved Aug 20, 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Romans, B. (1775). A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida. New York: Printed for the author. p. 313. OCLC 745317190.
- ^ Nabokov and Easton; p. 109.
- ^ Rechenda Davis Bates, "Alice Brown Davis" Script error: No such module "webarchive"., Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, accessed 18 April 2013
References
- Nabokov, Peter and Robert Easton; Native American Architecture.; New York; The Oxford University Press; 1989; Template:ISBN.
- Swanton, John R.; The Indians of the Southeastern United States; United States Government Printing Office; Washington, DC; 1946; p. 81-82.
- Waselkov, Gregory A.; and Smith, Marvin T.; Upper Creek Archaeology; referenced in McEwan, Bonnie G.; edition Indians of the Greater Southeast: Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory; Gainesville; University of Florida Press; 2000; p. 244.
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