Alabama people

The Alabama Indians are a tribe of North America. At the time of first contact with the colonial immigrants, they lived on the upper reaches of the Alabama River, especially in today's U.S. state of Alabama, partly also in Florida, Louisiana and Oklahoma.

The Alabama is divided into the Tawasa and Pawokti.

Your Language, Alabama, belongs to the language family of Muskogee languages.

History

The Alabama became friends with the first French colonists. 1717 established the French Fort Toulouse in the area of ​​Alabama. However, the arrival of the French led to migrations. From 1763 many Alabama coated with the related and allied Coushatta from Alabama and Mississippi due to the pressure of the European settlers in the area of ​​today's Texas, where they now together the 1987 federally Recognized Alabama Coushatta Tribe of Texas with approximately 1,137 tribal members and a reservation of approximately 18 km ², form. Those Alabama and Coushatta ( Koasati, Coosauda or Quassarte ), who remained fought as members of the Creek Confederacy (also Muskogee ) against the United States. They lost in 1784 in the Treaty of Fort James Jackson all their land. Most Alabama and Coushatta accompanied the Muskogee to Oklahoma, where 350 tribal members today still considered federally Recognized tribe of Alabama Quassarte Tribal Town live.

Population

Iberville estimated in 1702 that 400 families of Alabama lived in two villages. The British census of 1715 counted 770 Alabama. For 1832, the population is estimated at 321, but this was the Alabama, who had moved to Louisiana, not counted. The U.S. census of 1910 gives 187 Alabama in Texas and 111 in Louisiana. According to the 1990 census spoke of 500-600 Alabama still 256 their traditional language.

Importance

Not only the Alabama River flow but also the state of Alabama was named after this people. Next took a railway station in Oklahoma tribal names, as well as the towns of Alabama City, Alabama and Alabama in Arkansas.

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