Casiste

Casiste was a town recorded by the chroniclers of Hernando de Soto's expedition as it travelled through the Alabama interior in 1540. It lay on a stream along the route between Talisi and the country of the chief Tuskaloosa. The name has been connected with Kasihta, a community that later moved east to the Chattahoochee valley. There Kasihta became one of the towns of the Creek confederacy, whose constituent communities retained their own leaders and identities.