Tamahita

The Rickohockens were prominently featured on 17th-century British maps as the sole inhabitants of the Virginia and northwestern North Carolina mountains. Despite this, little academic attention has been given to them since John Swanton’s misidentification of their name as an alternative for the Yuchi. The term Rickohocken first appeared in Virginia colonial records in 1644 and was associated with territorial claims extending into Kentucky and Tennessee. By the early 1700s, references shifted to the Charaqui, with subsequent confusion linking the Rickohockens to the Creek and Cherokee communities.