Tomo-chi-chi and other Yamacraws Native Americans

Senauki was a prominent

Muscogee The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy ( in the Muscogee language), are a group of related indigenous (Native American) peoples of the Southeastern WoodlandsProvince of Georgia A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outs ...

in British America. Senauki was the wife of the influential Muscogee leader

Tomochichi Tomochichi (to-mo-chi-chi') (c. 1644 – October 5, 1741) was the head chief of a Yamacraw town on the site of present-day Savannah, Georgia, in the 18th century. He gave his land to James Oglethorpe to build the city of Savannah. He remains a p ...

. In 1734, Senauki traveled to London, England, as part of a Muscogee delegation. She also participated in negotiations between the Muscogee and early Georgia colonists. She is depicted in the William Verelst painting '' Audience Given by the Trustees of Georgia to a Delegation of Creek Indians'' (1734–35). After Tomochichi's death on October 5, 1739, Senauki and Tomochichi's nephew Toonahowi took charge of the Muscogee tribe. Senauki probably died in the late 1740s.

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{{reflist Year of birth missing 1740s deaths Muscogee people Female Native American leaders Native American people from Georgia (U.S. state) 18th-century Native Americans