The Hitchiti were an indigenous tribe formerly residing chiefly in a town of the same name on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River, 4 miles below Chiaha, in western present-day Georgia. The natives possessed a narrow strip of good land bordering on the river. These people had a reputation of being honest and industrious. Their autonym was possibly Atcik-hata, while the Coushatta knew them as the At-pasha-shliha, "mean people".