Senauki

Senauki was a prominent Muscogee (Creek) woman in what was then the Province of Georgia in British America.

Audience Given by the Trustees of Georgia to a Delegation of Creek Indians (1734) by William Verelst. Senauki on the right, wearing pink.

Senauki was the wife of the influential Muscogee leader Tomochichi. 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).[1]

After Tomochichi's death on October 5, 1739, Senauki and Tomochichi's nephew Toonahowi took charge of the Muscogee tribe.[2]

Senauki probably died in the late 1740s.[3]

References
  1. Hanham, A. A. (2006-09-28). "Trustees for establishing the colony of Georgia in America [Georgia trustees; Georgia Society] (act. 1732–1752)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1 (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/95206. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. "Tomochichi". New Georgia Encyclopedia.
  3. Sweet, Julie Anne (2010). "Senauki: A Forgotten Character in Early Georgia History". Native South. 3: 65–88. doi:10.1353/nso.2010.0002. S2CID 161355961.
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