Sawokli

Sawokli, recorded by the Spanish as Sabacola, was a Hitchiti-speaking tribal town on the lower Chattahoochee River in Georgia, and one of the towns of the Apalachicola Province. Its material culture grew out of the Lamar culture that developed along the river between about 1300 and 1400.

Franciscan friars visited from 1679, and the mission town of San Carlos de Sabacola existed by 1686, disappearing from Spanish records after 1690. Shortly after 1690 Sawokli moved with the other Apalachicola towns to Ochese Creek in central Georgia, where English traders called them the Ochese Creek Indians.

After the Yamasee War of 1715 the towns returned to the Chattahoochee and formed the Lower Towns of the Muscogee, or Creek, Confederacy, of which Sawokli long remained a member.