Ichisi

Ichisi was a chiefdom in the Ocmulgee River country of central Georgia. Its principal town is usually associated with the Lamar Mounds and Village site. The settlement contained houses within a palisade and two distinctive monuments: a platform mound and a second mound with a spiral ascent. These earthworks belonged to a community with its own history of construction and occupation before the Spanish expedition arrived.

Hernando de Soto's party passed through the Ichisi country in the spring of 1540. On 1 April, members of the expedition erected a cross and held a religious service at the principal town, before continuing east. The town was densely occupied in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and its mounds were already old when the Spaniards came.