THESE GEORGIAN INDIANS WERE CALLED ATCIKHATA AND THIS APPLIED TO ALL OF THE INDIANS WHO SPOKE HITACHI LANGUAGE. THIS NAME IS SAID TO REFER TO WHITE ASHES. BY THEIR CEREMONIAL GROUNDS. THE HITACHI BELONG TO MUSKHGEAN THE MOTHER TOWN OF THE ATCIKHATA GROUP. THEY ARE LOCATED PRESENTLY ON THE CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER IN THAT COUNTY. DURING AN EARLIER PERIOD THEY WERE ON THE LOWER COURSE OF THE OCMOLGEE RIVER.
THEIR VILLAGE OF HITCHITOOCHEE IS ON FLINT RIVER BELOW IT'S JUNCTION WITH KINCHAFOOTEE CREEK. THEY ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE OCUTE OF DE SOTO'S RIVER. CHRONICLER'S WHO WERE ON THE OCUMUGLEE RIVER. EARLY ENGLISH MAPS SHOW THEIR TOWN ON THE SITE OF PRESENT MACON, GEORGIA. BUT AFTER 1715THEY MOVE TO THE CHATTAHOOCHEE, SETTING IN HENRY COUNTY ALABAMA. LATER THEY MOVED TO OKLAHOMA WHERE THEY MERGED WITH THE REST OF THE CREEK CONFEDERACY. IN 1812 THEIR ENTIRE POPULATION WAS 380 PEOPLE. THE SEMINOLES ARE THOUGHT TO BE HALF CREEK AND HALF HITCHITI. THE HITACHI WERE ABSORBED INTO THE CREEK NATION AND PRESERVED A LARGE PART OF THEIR OWN LANGUAGE. THEY GAINED FEDERAL RECOGNITION AS THE MUCCOSUKEE TRIBE IN 1962.
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