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are the Tawasa and Chatot, respectively, but the remainder can not be
identified very satisfactorily. Mooney -i._',e.-t that Sowoolla is per-
haps what was afterward the Lower Creek town of Sawokli, PoIihka
the later Alibamu settlement of Pawokti, and Tomo6ka an exiled
village of the Timucua (called by the English Tomoco) which had
been driven out of Florida. Excepting this last suggestion, evidence
regarding these people points to relationship with the IIitchiti and
the Alibamu.l that is, to the Stinkard element among the Creeks.
Thus the Tawasa are known to have united with the Alibanm,
Pawokti was an Alibanm town, and Sawokli and Apalachicola were
IIitchiti towns. Reasons for classifying the Chatot as Muskhogean
have already been given." Unlike the others, they separated entirely
from the Creeks and followed the fortunes of the small tribes under
French protection.
 The relationship of Koroa, Yazoo, Tioux, and Grigra to Tunica
rests merely on circumstantial evidence. Du Pratz, whose inforna-
tion, in spite of slips here and there, is generally accurate, states that
the languages of all of these tribes contained an i', whereas none of
their neighbors could even pronounce that sound.' For the Koroa
this is confirmed by the tribal name itself, and the Yazoo and Koroa
tribes were always so closely associated that their relationship to
each other seems plausible. The Choctaw chief, Allen Wright,
whose grandfather was a Koroa, also affirmed that the language of
(hat people was entirely distinct from Choctaw.' In Du Pratz's day
the Tioiix were under Natchez protection, and this was true of at
least part of them as far back as Iberville's first voyage, 1699." There
is every reason to believe, however, that they had come there shortly
before from Yazoo river, where nearly all of the other tribes of this
group were situated." Of the Grigra we know nothing more than
the fact that their language possessed an r and that they had been
taken under the protection of the Natchez at a still earlier date.f
The relation of all of these to Tunica is indicated though not finally
proved by the following considerations. In the first place the lan-
guages of all contained the phonetic r. which was conspicuously ab-
sent from the speech of the tribes about them; all except the Grigra
are known to have lived along Yazoo river at some former time;
and the name of one of these tribes, the Koroa, resembles certain
Tunica words, as oroa, white,' 'white man.' In 1722 La Harpe
ascended from New Orleans to the Arkansas, and stopped for about
ten days at the Yazoo post. There he found, as he says, settlements
 See p. 27.
 Du Pratz, list. de La Louisiano, II, 222-226, 1758.
 Gatschet, Creek Mig. Leg., I, 48.
 "Margry, Dieouvrites. iv, 170.
 Du I'ratz, IHist. de I.a Louisiane, II, 2'?
 SIhid.. 222.
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