5. Chaquesauma. This important tribe, written also Chokeechuma,
Chactchioumas, Saques'húma, etc., are the Saquechuma visited
by a detachment of de Soto's army in their walled town
(1540). The name signifies "red crabs." Cf. Adair, History,
p. 352: "Tahre-hache (Tallahatchi),[61] which lower down is
called Chokchooma river, as that nation made their first
settlements there, after they came on the other side of
Mississippi.... The Chicasaw, Choktah and also the
Chokchooma, who in process of time were forced by war to
settle between the two former nations, came together from
the west as one family," etc. Cf. B. Romans, p. 315. _Crab,
crawfish_ is sóktchu in Creek, sáktchi in Hitchiti.
[Footnote 61: A large northern affluent of Yazoo river, in
northern parts of Mississippi State.]