Wakokai

Wakokai was an Upper Creek town in the country east of the Coosa River. Its name refers to a place where herons breed. Eighteenth-century maps and town lists record it near the Pakana settlements, and the communities of Wiogufki and Tukpafka regarded Wakokai as their mother town. When the Indian agent Benjamin Hawkins listed Creek towns in 1796, he recorded those branches rather than Wakokai itself, preserving evidence of the ties between the older town and its offshoots.