Kasihta

Kasihta, also written Cusseta, was one of the principal Muscogee towns whose history joined the Ocmulgee country to the Chattahoochee valley. Muscogee oral traditions placed Kasihta among the founding communities of their people. These traditions describe migrations and relationships between towns, preserving a political past that cannot be reduced to the history of a single fixed settlement.

After the Yamasee War of 1715–1716, the Lower Creek towns were established along the Chattahoochee. Cusseta appears among them on the Herbert map of 1725 and again on the Mitchell map of the mid-eighteenth century, alongside Coweta and other neighbouring communities. The maps record a river landscape occupied by distinct towns, rather than an undifferentiated frontier. Kasihta's identity thus combined its own community and traditions with participation in the larger Muscogee confederacy. Its name survived changes of settlement and the growing colonial pressure upon the river country, retaining the memory of a town central to Muscogee accounts of their origins.