PREFATORY NOTE.

PREFACE.

CONTENTS. FIRST PART. PAGE THE SOUTHERN FAMILIES OF INDIANS 9 I. Linguistic Groups of the Gulf States.

FIRST OR GENERAL PART. THE SOUTHERN FAMILIES OF INDIANS.

SECOND OR SPECIAL PART. THE KASI'HTA MIGRATION LEGEND. INDIAN MIGRATION LEGENDS.

FOOTNOTES:

Transcriber's Notes:

Owing to the absence of the Author on official duties in the Indian Territory, the Map which should accompany this volume has not been prepared. It will therefore be issued with the second volume.

BRINTON'S LIBRARY OF
ABORIGINAL AMERICAN LITERATURE.
NUMBER IV.

A
MIGRATION LEGEND
OF THE
Creek Indians,

WITH A LINGUISTIC, HISTORIC AND ETHNOGRAPHIC INTRODUCTION,

BY
ALBERT S. GATSCHET,
OF THE U. S. BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY, WASHINGTON, D. C.

VOLUME I.

Νᾱφε καὶ μέμνας' ὰπιστεῑν
ᾰρθρα ταῦυτα τῶν φρενῶν.
Epicharmus.

PHILADELPHIA:
D. G. BRINTON.
1884.