Yuchin.
/ˈjuːtʃi/ a. (A member of) an Indian people formerly inhabiting the region of the Savannah river in Georgia and South Carolina, and now incorporated into the Creek nation in Oklahoma.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of South-Eastern America > [noun]
Floridian1589
Chickasaw1674
Yamasee1699
Alabama1708
Natchez1708
Santee1709
Cherokee1721
Choctaw1722
Coushatta1722
Creek1725
Yuchi1738
Muskogee1751
Floridan1763
Muskogee1789
Mikasuki1791
Opelousa1805
Karankawa1806
Tunica1806
Melungeon1813
Alabamian1817
Ozark1819
Alabaman1829
1738 W. Stephens Jrnl. 1 Feb. in Jrnl. Proc. Georgia (1742) I. 97 He understood they were a Party of the Euchies.
1741 in South Carolina Hist. Soc. Coll. (1887) IV. 40 Thomas Jones..was Employed..as a Linguist to the Creeks and Euchees.
1744 in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1840) I. 145 Their cattle..had strayed away and eat the Uckee's corn.
1818 Lynchburg (Va.) Press 25 Dec. 3/1 The captain..reports to have taken three warriors, a Creek, a Choctaw, and a Uchee.
1893 Amer. Anthropologist 6 280 The Yuchi believe themselves to be the offspring of the sun.
1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 145 The Yuchi..were conquered by the Creeks... All the Yuchi are bilingual, and there couldn't be two languages further apart than Creek and Yuchi.
1975 W. L. Ballard in J. M. Crawford Stud. Southeastern Indian Lang. 163 I spent approximately six weeks in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, interviewing Yuchis.
b. The language of this people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Sioux language family > languages of
Sioux1776
Missouri1804
Osage1804
Mandan1805
Winnebago1831
Yuchi1836
Crow1846
Otoe1848
Yankton1849
Dakotana1856
Assiniboine1872
Teton1877
Santee1882
Kansa1933
Oglala1933
Lakota1939
Omaha1957
Hidatsa1964
Ho-Chunk1997
1836 Trans. & Coll. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. II. 96 These five languages, the Muskhogee and the Hitchittee, the Uchee, the Natches, and the Alibamon or Coosada are, it is believed, the only ones spoken by the different tribes of the Creek confederacy.
1909 F. G. Speck Ethnol. Yuchi Indians 15 It is quite certain now that Yuchi is spoken in only one dialect.
1975 W. L. Ballard in J. M. Crawford Stud. Southeastern Indian Lang. 163 A number of tapes of conversations in Yuchi were made.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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