The Chisca were a tribe of Native Americans living in present-day eastern Tennessee [1] and southwestern Virginia in the 16th century. Their descendants, the Yuchi lived in present-day …

Feb 19, 2022 · Who were the Chiska? The Chiska People are recorded by the chroniclers of the De Soto and Pardo Expeditions as living in the interior of the Southeastern United States, west …

Dec 30, 2019 · The chief United States Agent to the Southeastern Indians, Benjamin Hawkins, wrote that they established a tribal town named Chiska Talufa in present-day Chattahoochee …

Sep 2, 2022 · The Tennessee Chiska warrior was almost identical in every detail to the Chiska warrior in Peru. Chiska means “bird” in Panoan. He is wearing a conical hat!

Shiksa (Yiddish: שיקסע, romanized: shikse) is an often disparaging [1] term for a gentile [a] woman or girl. The word, which is of Yiddish origin, has moved into English usage and some Hebrew …

Jan 25, 2017 · Located at the corner of Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue and South Main Street in the South Main District, the Hotel Chisca, now known as The Chisca on Main, has stood as a …

Nov 15, 2016 · 1757: Chiska Talofa is the only town in the area of present-day southeast Alabama located on the 1757 Bonar Map (DeVorsey 1971). Swanton (1922) equated this with …

Oct 8, 2017 · The earliest mention of Yuchis in Tennessee is found in the Spanish de Soto expedition narratives (1539-43), where they are referred to as the Chisca and located in the …

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In Muskogee and Hitchiti, chiska means the base of a tree or colloquially, the foundation of a building. It is also the archaic word that the Chickasaw called themselves. Both meanings are …