Artfuldodger
Senior Member
I remember reading something awhile back that some of these Yuchi groups are note even related to each other. That somehow they happen to have the same name but like the ones on the Savannah River have no recent connection to the ones in Yuchi Town in West Georgia.Some of that stuff from the links is pure fantasy and personal speculation. Some of it may be true, but I would take most of that with a grain of salt.
As for your quote, no, they haven't been erased from history or books or maps. And they didn't hold that vast of a territory at the time of European contact. The locations and sizes of the tribes they encountered were well-documented by the first European explorers. Most of them place the Yuchi/Suwali in a minor territory in the foothills of the NC mountains at time of contact, and later in east-central TN.
Oh, I definitely agree that a lot of it is pure speculation. Some of it seems to be people just looking for a group to identify with. Lots of politics even.
Plus when the Gambling casinos got popular, Native Americans came out the woodwork to get status.
I'm just trying to look at all the possibilities and go from there. Lots of mysteries that we'll never know the answers to.