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An Indian Prince Who Visited King George’s Court Pretend you are a 14 year old boy, leading a typical life for a 14 year old boy, when a group of visitors arrive to your village from another country. Your uncle, the prestigious leader of your village welcomes these strange looking foreigners with open arms. And suddenly you realize nothing in your life will ever be the same again.
Tomochichi was a tall figure of a man. It has been written that he was more than six feet tall and at least 80 years old when the first British settlers arrived in Georgia. Tomochichi was a wise man, he had heard of the arrival of the English from European traders. He also had lived through a great war, between the English and the Yamassee tribe of Indians that lived in the Carolina’s and along the Savannah river. He had seen what happened in the great Yamassee War and saw how the colonists had outwitted the Indians by dividing them against each other. He discovered how a tribe that made enemies of the English could be wiped out and banished from their land. He wanted the Yamacraw to live and flourish on the banks of the great river and he knew the way to accomplish a peaceful existence for his people was through friendship with the English. |
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happened to a boy named Toonahowi. Toonahowi lived with his uncle, Tomochichi.
Tomochichi was chief or Mico of the Yamacraw Indians who lived along the
coast of Georgia. It was common in those days for the Mother’s brother
to be the father figure and model for a child under the Creek Indian laws
and traditions. But Tomochichi was both uncle and father to Toonahowi,
for Toonahowi’s parents had been killed by Europeans when he was
only an infant. Tomochichi had been the only father the child had ever
known. 
