Yes, folks, that's right the Tvmv were NOT Muskogees. They were Hitchiti speakers like most Georgia Creeks, and would have looked something like Chief Tomachichi ... whose real name in Hitchiti was Tama-chiki - A member of the Royal House of Tama. They would have not looked like Muskogees. So I guess if one wanted to be ethnologically correct, the state recognized Creek tribe in SW Georgia should be called the Tawmaw Hitchiti-Creek Tribal Town in English - not the Tama Lower Creek-Muscogee Tribal Town. What my recent research has uncovered is that there was a schism in the Tama-tli due to the repeated attempts of Spanish soldiers and priests to invade the Tama-tli's territory near the juncture of the Oconee and Ocmulgee Rivers that form the Altamaha. A small minority of Tama-tli converted to Catholicism and relocated to a mission near the Georgia Welcome Center on I-75 in SW Georgia. HOWEVER, there are also numerous Tama-tli town sites in Western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. I think that the Tama-tli always had mountain trading stations, because the Tama-tli site east of Murphy, NC has a good-sized mound. Probably, more Tama-tli fled to the mountains during the English slave-raiding period. These mountain Tama-tli communities eventually joined the Cherokee Alliance. Their descendants are known as Cherokees. The exact locations of the Tama-tli communities are preserved in such place names as Tamatley, Tomatly, and Tomatla. It is clear from Spanish records, that the Tama-tli never allowed the Spanish to build a mission or fort in their ancestral land. The Forks of the Altamaha continued to be pure Muskogean territory until the early 1800s. That is why it is hilarious that the Fernbank Museum continues to promote the search of for the Mission Santa Isabel de Utinahica in Telfair County, GA on the Ocmulgee River (Middle Georgia). Utinahica is a Timucua (Arawak) word. The Utinahica were based near Cumberland Island, GA. at the Florida State Line. People of One Fire member and Lumbee historian Michael Jacobs, HAS found Spanish records describing a chain of small forts and missions reaching northeastward out of the Okefenokee Swamp along the Satilla River. If one extends that line a little further, it intersects with the OTHER Forks of the Altamaha - the juncture of the Altamaha and Ohoopee Rivers. Now this area was known to be the northern most frontier of Timucua influence. We know that the Timucua inland forts and missions only lasted a short time, before the Tama-tli destroyed them - so juncture of the Ohoopee and Altamaha is where some European archaeologist, I guess, will find the remains of Mission Santa Isabel de Utinahica. Richard T. **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)