Atcik-hata

The Atcik-hata, recorded by the English as the Hitchiti, were a collection of tribal towns, among them Apalachicola, whose Hitchiti speech was a Muskogean language mutually intelligible with Mikasuki. Their towns lined the lower Chattahoochee River in Georgia and Alabama as part of the Apalachicola Province, and the Spanish first mentioned the town of Hitchiti in 1675.

Shortly after 1690 they moved east to the Ocmulgee River, but in 1715, during the Yamasee War, they returned to the Chattahoochee and became members of the Muscogee, or Creek, confederacy.

Through the eighteenth century Hitchiti-speaking bands drifted south into Florida, where they joined the Seminole, formed there from Creek refugees, and Mikasuki became one of the principal Seminole languages. Their ancient speech was remembered as having a separate female dialect.