Fushatchee was a band of

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Native Americans. They were located in

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and

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in the

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. The Fushatchee may have come out of three different Muscogee tribes: Kanhatki, Kolomi, and the Atasi. Europeans first recorded them in 1733. Traders tracked them as being in the same location until 1797. Some traders called them the "Coosahatchies of Swan." Indian agent

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wrote that the Fushatchee's village was on flat land on the south side of the

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. The tribe cultivated corn on each side of the river, and dug a moat for

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. Additional, older settlements were found down the river. After the

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, the Fushatchee relocated to northern

. They disappeared in census data after 1832. French censuses suggest the tribe merged with the Kanhatki.Swanton, 241 After the

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, the US federal government forcefully relocated them and the Seminole people further west, and eventually into

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. The tribe would be represented by the Seminole. The Fushatchee tribal town in the Alabama and Florida and their ceremonial ground in Oklahoma is called Liwahali.

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* Muscogee people Native American tribes in Alabama Native American history of Alabama Native American history of Florida Seminole tribe {{NorthAm-native-stub