My sister recalls asking our maternal grandmother if she remembered any of her native tongue. Granny responded with something that sounded like “Acha Kacha.” This is my spelling based on my sister's pronounciation.
Our grandmother, born 1916 CE, said she remembers coming to the USA on the boat from Africa [I suspect possibly by way of the Caribbean or eastern South America or eastern Central America]. She then lived in Florida, then Cairo Georgia and then West Virginia. We know she has Creek Indian branches in her genealogy. It is possible that Africans, by force of intentional conscious habit, continued to sail from Africa to the Americas, the way they had long since done numerous times before lost Africans turned white, by way of Europe, were shown how to make the journey.
After hearing this story and information several times, spirit-soul, using its great magic ur heka power, has continued to reveal pieces of the puzzle, moving the restore point of thousands, closer to a better last known good configuration.
Messages found elsewhere within this inner network weblog, touch upon the even earlier origin of word Indian, word Creek, word Muskogee, word Chichimec, word Yamasee.
Notes And Documents, The Origin Of The Name Of The Creek Indians
The most recent portion of khi revelations comes from paraphrased, quoted and stitched together excerpts from the article that is the title of this section. My comments are in [brackets]. The full article can be found at https://www.jstor.org/stable/1888814?seq=4
The name, Creek Indians, [according to white Europeans of a particular skew, sku and slant] is the result of first contact in North America between the eastern Muskogee and the English of Carolina.
From the beginnings of settlement in South Carolina the English were aware of the importance of the "Cussitaws" whom they knew only vaguely as a "powerful Nation" seated somewhere inland beyond the Savannah river. Although the English in 1677 CE reserved to themselves a monopoly of the trade
with the " Cussatoes", as well as with the Westo [called Chichimeco by other sources], it was probably not until after the destruction of the Westo (1680 CE - 1681 CE) by whites and other indians, that continuous relations were developed with their more distant rivals, the Creek, located southwest of Carolina. [We are reminded that the number of US states, and their borders, at that time, were different from the 50 states and their borders.]
The center of the southern trade remained around the forks of the Altamaha. The Indians of that region, the "Cussetas and Kaweetas," became the central factor in the South Carolina Indian system. [As backstabbers have a habit of doing,] the English referred to the Creek as “our friends.” As "friends" of the English they were engaged, in the last decade of the century, in raids upon the Florida Indians [some called Seminoles], a fact which gave the authorities [white folks] at St. Augustine frequent occasion for complaint, and which brought numerous Indian slaves to the Charles Town market [another group of profit-seeking by any means necessary white folks, even by stealing from each other from what they stole].
Ocheese (meaning "people") was the Hitchiti term for their Muskhogean neighbors.
Prior to the Yamasee war, the chief towns of the Ocheese, Kawita, and Kasihta were located on the upper Ocmulgee river. As was frequently the case, the stream took the name of the folk, so that the Ocmulgee river above the approximate site of Macon, Georgia, was known to the English as "Ochese Creek." [ Word Macon is related to word Makhosa, which is related to word Ocha-sa. Word Macon also related to word Makom, meaning place. Word Macon also related to word Major from Makhon from Makhen, meaning heaven, paradise.]
In January, 1702 CE, Governor James Moore asked the assembly to "think of some way to confirm the Cussatoes live on Ocha-sa Creek & the Savannos live in the place they now live, and to confirm our friendship since they are the only people by whom we may expect advice of an Inland Invasion. Such was. the importance of this locality in the South Carolina Indian system, not only as the center of the trade with the Indians between the Savannah and the Chattahoochee rivers, but also as a stage on the path to the Talapoosa, Alibamu, Abihka, and Chickasaw of the Louisiana frontier, and as the key to the defense of the southern border of the province, that Ochese creek was, to Carolinians at that time, the "Creek" par excellence [and so were the Creek people by admission of earlier English statements and actions; however, this acknowledgment was also used as ego-stroking to divide and conquer, i.e., you are not like them, you're one of the good ones].For example, the English commissioners [assigned to focus on Indians as an English resource] set down in their journal in 1713 CE the proposal of the Yamasee that "the Cheehaws [Chiaha] who were formerly belonging to the Yamassees, and now settled at the Creek, might return. In consequence, the term " Ochese Creek Indians " often became, by abbreviation, often simply “Creeks.” The expressions were at first synonymous; and for a time the name Creek was strictly confined to the easternmost Muskogee. Their western kinsfolk and allies were called specifically "Alabamas," "Talapoosas," "Abihkas."
When, in 1707 CE, an elaborate intrigue [scheme] was set in motion by the provincial government to convert the Choctaw and Yazoo from the French to the English alliance, the Indian agent was warned by the assembly that the league would not be lasting unless formed "with the consent of the Creek and Talabushees Indians."
Again, when the English assembly was planning, in 1709 CE, to collect a force of Indians to protect the settlements in an expected emergency, provision was made for raising 150 Indians "among the Several Towns of the Creek Indians proportionally," and in addition " 50 from the Talibouses and Alabamas. Soon however, the western Muskogee, with whom the English were in close alliance against the French and their allies in the period of Queen Anne's war, came to be included in the popular designation of Creeks. As early as 1712 CE a distinction in term was made between the western and eastern Creeks, which became thereafter the stereotyped English usage, when the Indian commissioners instructed their agent to adjust affairs among "the upper and lower Creeks."
It is apparent the name Creek was first applied by the English to those members of the Muskhogean group with whom they were first in contact, the Indians who lived on or near the upper Ocmulgee, i. e., "Ochese on Creek;" that it was derived from the expression Ochese Creek Indians; and that as the familiarity of the Carolinians with the western members of the great southern confederacy increased, the popular name was extended to them, losing in the process its original specific connotation [original in the sense of, “as far as the white English understood”].
Forms Of Acha Kacha
1. Ocha-sa Kashita2. Ocha-sa Kasihta
3. Ocha-sa Kawita
4. Ocha-sa Kaweeta
5. Ocha-sa Abihka
6. Ocha-sa Cheehaw
7. Ocha-sa Chiaha
8. Ocha-sa Hitchiti
9. Ocha-sa Muskogee
10. Ocha-sa Cussitaw
11. Ocha-sa Cussatoe
12. Ocha-sa Cusseta
13. Ocha-sa Cursitaw
14. Ocha-sa Cowataw
15. Ocha-sa Cussetaw
16. Ocha-sa Ogamulgee
17. Ochese Kashita
18. Ochese Kasihta
19. Ochese Kawita
20. Ochese Kaweeta
21. Ochese Abihka
22. Ochese Cheehaw
23. Ochese Chiaha
24. Ochese Hitchiti
25. Ochese Muskogee. Possibly word Muskogee is a reordering of word Ocmulgee [Mulcogee]. Likewise then so would be word Ochese, word Ocheese.
26. Ochese Cussitaw
27. Ochese Cussatoe
28. Ochese Cusseta
29. Ochese Cursitaw
30. Ochese Cowataw
31. Ochese Cussetaw
32. Ochese Ogamulgee
Ocheese, Further Info
according to an online Creek dictionary, word Ocheese is from:Ocēse (ocí:si) noun [pronounced O-Gee-See]
Ocheese: a band within the Seminole Nation
This entry shows the likely origin of “sa” as used in the article above in the spelling of Ocha-sa.
Si, in this instance, is likely the Egyptian Si or Sif or Khi meaning child. Thus Oci:si is likely a short form of Muscogee-si, likely meaning child of the Muscogee.Oci:si is also possibly a short form of Mucogee Yamasi.
Since Mus and Uskh are related to water, the core name is likely Cogee, Hoochee or similar spelling. Thus Katta-Cogee results in Chattahoochee, those of north and south Aethiopia and Cassiopeia. See Khatti and Catta.
Cogee is related to the Khoi and the Chikokee, a form of Cherokee from Kher-Rekh-Khe to word Creek, a short form of word Cherokee.
Thus we can have Mes-Kho-Kho-Khi, end up as Muskogee, Muscogee, Ocheese, Ochese and Oci:si.
Chichimec, as Mecchichi as Meccheche as Mecchoche, becomes Muscogee and related forms.
Additional understandings can be obtained through Chi, Che, Khi, Khe.
Muskogee
Phillip Deere Archival Footage”Use of Word Muskogee found at Min 5:30