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- Hopothla means "Crazy War Hunter".
The Muscogees- we call them Creeks to identify them from other Native groups of the area -- the Southeastern United States -- the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Choctaw-- were really a group of tribes. Kashitas, Koasati, Yammassee, Tuckabatchee, Coosa, Coweta, Alibamo are some tribes associated with Creeks. They mainly lived along waterways of (now) Alabama and Georgia, in villages connected by paths-- trading paths. And threaded among the trading paths were hunting paths. Crisscrossing the trading and hunting paths were war paths. A telling pattern.
Menewa's (1765 - 1843) boyhood name was Yoholo; the name given to him
by his father was Othlepoya Yoholo. When the Creeks chose him as chief
in 1820, he became known as Menewa. On April 26, 1826, he was chosen
as the principle chief of the Creek Indian tribes. (This information
is from a letter written by Mary Ann Campbell Peigh of Bessemer,
Alabama, on December 28, 1970, to her uncle, Joshua Banks Campbell.)
Menewa married Hannah Cornell, also a Creek. They had two children,
Katee Ann (1786 - 1865) and Little Warrior (1785 - 181?). Katee Ann
married Reuben Weed (Creek, ? - 1814; died in Battle of Horseshoe
Bend), and they had Katee (1804 - 1890), Hannah (died 1880), and
Charity Yoholo (died 1872). Charity, Menewa's grandaughter, married
Robert David Campbell (1767 - 1835), and they had twins Asa and
Nathan, and two girls and another son who seem to have disappeared
with their mother. Asa and Nace were raised by their father's brother,
Calvin, upon their father's death. (Source: Amanda Givens. Ancestry
Post 4 May 2005)
(Note: His name given by his peers was "Hopothla". His parents are not known. MCM-2005)
In 1835 he sent his oldest son to serve against the Seminoles in Florida.
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