Apalachicola people

The Apalachicola (or Pallachacola ) were a tribe allied with the Muskogee North American Indians. They used a language from the family of Muskogee languages ​​called Hitchiti. They originally lived along the Apalachicola River in present-day Florida and Georgia, some of them settled but about 1706 into the region around the Savannah River near the colony of South Carolina. This relocation may not have been voluntary, but forced by the English slave traders who hunted down the Indians.

A census in 1708 described the Apalachicola at the Savannah River as " Naleathuckles " who lived with 80 people in a village by the river. A more accurate count in 1715 by John Barnwell described the tribe as a distributed on two villages group of 214 people, 64 of them men, 71 women, 42 boys and 37 girls.

During the Yamasee War in 1715 she took part in the attacks on South Carolina. The survivors returned to the Apalachicola River and settled near the confluence of the Chattahoochee River and the Flint River. Later some of them migrated to the Chattahoochee River along and settled in what is now Russell County in Alabama down.

After two negotiations under the Indian Removal Act in 1833 and 1834, the Apalachicola taken place in the years 1836 to 1840 in what is now Oklahoma.

The river " Apalachicola River" is named exactly like the Bay " Apalachicola Bay ," the city " Apalachicola ", and the National Forest Apalachicola National Forest in Florida by this strain.