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82 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 103
Chikashahe, "Chickasaw potato(?)," said by one informant to have
been east of Mashulaville, but anciently, at all events, on the headwaters
of the Chickasawhay River; Kii°shak, " reedbrake people"
(though by one informant affirmed to have been the name of a bird
found in the reedbrakes), said to have been north of Mashulaville,
but anciently much farther south ; Okla falaia, " long people," ac-
cording to some Mississippi Choctaw about 16 miles north of Phil-
adelphia, according to others near Harperville in Scott County; ^*^
Spani okla, " Spanish people," 25 to 40 miles east of Jackson, Miss.
Obala chaha iksa, along Turkey Creek, in the northeastern part of
Scott County and the southeastern part of Neshoba; Koe chito,
" Panther," not located ; Bok falaia, " Long Creek," not located ; and
Yanabe, Yashu, Abeka, Lukfata, and Haiyowani, which were also
names of well-known Choctaw towns and may easily be located.
Mr. Bushnell adds the Shunkwane ogla (Shu°kani okla), "Ant peo-
ple," and Cushman, as we have seen, speaks of one known as Apela,
" to help," " to assist." Gatschet mentions a few groups besides
which may belong in this category, Cofetalaya, " quail are there,"
Pineshuk Indians, " on a branch of Pearl River, in Winston County,"
the name perhaps transposed from " pishannuk," the bass or linden
tree ; Sukinatchi or " Factory Indians," in Kemper County ; the
Cobb Indians, called after their leader. Colonel Cobb, but also known
as Hopahka Indians ; and the Shuqualak, in Noxubee County. Simpson
Tubby spoke of a band in the Sixtown country called Tashka
himmita. Some of these may have been temporary or town groups
instead of true iksa, and it is difficult to find out where the application
of the term iksa begins or ends. Sometimes it seems to have
been identical with a town, sometimes it appears to have embraced
several towns, but more often I believe that each town was composed
of several iksa.
Later local applications have been given to the names of the
dual divisions and clans, as follows. A band called Kashapa okla
lived at Bayou Lacomb, La,, in a village called Butchu'wa, another
known as I°holahta okla was considered the largest in southeastern
Louisiana, their principal settlement being on Hatcha, or Pearl
River. The Shakchi homa okla lived " near Chinchuba, some 12
miles west of Bayou Lacomb," and also west of Louisville, Miss.
Imo"klasha continue to live to this day about seven miles south of
Philadelphia, Miss., where they have been missionized by the
Catholic Church ; some Chufan iksa lived in Noxubee County, Miss.,
and there was a body of Tula iksa okla in Louisiana.
" It is said the name of this clan had its origin in a Choctaw family who, both parents
and children, were uncommonly tali."—Cushman, Hist. Choc, Chic, and Natchez,
p. 336. This is, of course, a folk etymology. Cushman mentions a chief of this iksa
named Amosholihubih, who was connected with the family of the old head chiefs.