Original territory of the Yuchi Tribe

The Yuchi, also spelled Euchee and Uchee, are a Native American Indian tribe previously living in the eastern Tennessee River valley in Tennessee, northern Georgia and northern Alabama who now primarily live in the northeastern Oklahoma area. Their own name for themselves is Tsoyaha - "Children of the Sun". Their population plummeted in the 18th century due to foreign diseases and war with the Cherokee. In 2005 there are approximately 3,000 Yuchi people. Image File history File links Yuchi_lang. ... Image File history File links Yuchi_lang. ... An Aani (Atsina) named Assiniboin Boy. ... http://www. ... A riverboat passing under the Henley Street Bridge on the Tennessee River. ... Official language(s) English Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Largest metro area Nashville Area  Ranked 36th  - Total 42,169 sq mi (109,247 km²)  - Width 120 miles (195 km)  - Length 440 miles (710 km)  - % water 2. ... Official language(s) English Capital Montgomery Largest city Birmingham Area  Ranked 30th  - Total 52,419 sq mi (135,765 km²)  - Width 190 miles (306 km)  - Length 330 miles (531 km)  - % water 3. ... Official language(s) None Capital Oklahoma City Largest city Oklahoma City Area  Ranked 20th  - Total 69,960 sq mi (181,196 km²)  - Width 230 miles (370 km)  - Length 298 miles (480 km)  - % water 1. ... For other uses, see Cherokee (disambiguation). ...

In the early 19th century they were forcibly "removed" along with the Muscogee people to Oklahoma. Historically, the Yuchi have always been a separate people from other tribes though they have often been grouped with and treated with other people, most importantly, with the Muscogee. The Creek are an American Indian people originally from the southeastern United States, also known by their original name Muscogee (or Muskogee), the name they use to identify themselves today. ...

Now, most Yuchi are of mixed-tribe descent and many are citizens of and enrolled with the Muscogee Nation, although many are citizens of other tribes, such as the Shawnee or Sac-and-Fox. Yuchi people have tried to attain Federal Recognition from the United States in the last decades of the 20th century, but this doesn't appear to have been successful. There have been organizations which have striven to be representative tribal governments, however none have had near-universal support to date. The Shawnee, or Shawano, are a people native to North America. ... The Sac and Fox Nation is the modern political entity encompassing the historical Sac and Fox nations of Native Americans. ...

The Yuchi language is a linguistic isolate, unrelated to any other known Native American tongue. Their word tybee (salt) lives as the name of Tybee Island. The Yuchi pronunciation of this word is similar to "duh bee" as pronounced by a North American English speaker. Pre-contact distribution of the Yuchi Language The Yuchi language is the language of the Yuchi people living in the southeastern United States, including eastern Tennessee, western Carolinas, northern Georgia and Alabama, in the period of early European colonization. ... A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or genetic) relationship with other living languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common to any other language. ... A magnified crystal of a salt (halite/sodium chloride) A salt, in chemistry, is any ionic compound composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is neutral (without a net charge). ... Aerial View of Tybee Island Tybee Island is a city located in Chatham County, Georgia near the city of Savannah, Georgia. ...

The Yuchi people and language are the subject of a chapter in Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages, a book on endangered languages by Mark Abley. An endangered language is a language with so few surviving speakers that it is in danger of falling out of use. ...

See also

• Yuchi language

• Sam Story

Pre-contact distribution of the Yuchi Language The Yuchi language is the language of the Yuchi people living in the southeastern United States, including eastern Tennessee, western Carolinas, northern Georgia and Alabama, in the period of early European colonization. ... Sam Story, also named Timpoochee Kinnard, was Chief of the Walton County, Florida, band of Euchee (Yuchi) Indians in the early 1800s, who occupied the lands on and to the west of the Choctawhatchee River. ...

Bibliography

Mark Abley Spoken Here : Travels Among Threatened Languages. Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

Jason Jackson Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning, and Tradition in a Contemporary American Indian Community. University of Nebraska Press, 2003.

Frank Speck Ethnology of the Yuchi Indians (reprint). University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

External links

• Who Were the Mysterious Yuchi of Tennessee and the Southeast? at Yuchi.org