Tomahittan

For many years, scholars accepted that the Tomahittans were either Yuchi or Cherokee and that the town visited by Needham and Arthur was somewhere west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

[citation needed] Other sources record that Tomahitan was the name of the main town of the Nottoway people in Southside Virginia.

[1] According to archaeologist Gregory Waselkov, the Tomahittan are "a Hitichiti-speaking group, probably a splinter from the Ocute paramount chiefdom on the Oconee River who moved to this vicinity in the late seventeenth century after the fall of Ocute.

"[2] Gabriel Arthur claimed that the Tomahittans kept men of the "Weesock" tribe as warrior slaves.

[4] Using linguistics, Dave Kaufman believes that the Tomahittans are the Siouan speaking Biloxi people, and their name translates to "Big Town".