By tacit agreement some of the Creeks who
had settled within the Cherokee bounds were permitted to remain.
Among these were several families of Uchee — an incorporated tribe
i Treaties at Fort Gibson. February 14. 1833, with Creeks and Cherokee, in Indian Treaties, pp.
56] "■'.'. 1837.
s Treaty of 1833, Indian Treaties, pp. 561-665,1837; Etoyce, Cherokee Nation, Fifth Ann. Rep. Bureau
of Ethnology, pp. 249-253. 1888; see also Treaty of New Eehota, 1835, ante, pp. 123-125.
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY
NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. VII
SPRING-FROG OR TOOANTUH DU'TSU'i
i From McKcnney and Ball's copy of the original painting ol aboul L830)
THE SPANISH GKAN1 143
of the Creek confederacy who had fixed their residence al the spot
where the town of Tahlequah \\:i- aftei'ward established- They
remained here until swept off by smallpox some sixty years ago. '
THE TEXASBAND L817 1900
As already stated, a band of western Cheixikee under Chief Bowl,
dissatisfied \\ itli the delay in fulfilling the terms of the treaty of L817,
bad Left Arkansas and crossed Red river into Texas, then under
Mexican jurisdiction, where the} were joined a few years later by
Tahchee and other- of the western band who were opposed to the
treat} of L828. Here they united with other refugee Indians from
the United States, forming together a loose confederacy known after-
ward as "the Cherokee and their associated bands," < sisting of
Cherokee, Shawano, Delaware, Kickapoo, Quapaw, Choctaw, Biloxi,
"Iawanie" (Heyowani, Yowani), "Unataqua" (Nada'ko or Ana-
darko, another Caddo subtribe), "Tahookatookie" (?), Alabama (a
(reek subtribe), and "Cooshatta" (Koasa'ti, another Creek subtribe).
The Cherokee being the largest and most important band, their child'.
Bowl — known to the whites as