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Chewacla – from the Hitchiti phrase sawackla, meaning "raccoon village". [19] Shared with Chewacla State Park. Chickasaw - named for the Chickasaw tribe. [20] Coosada - named for the Coushatta tribe. Cusseta - a Muscogee tribal town. [21] Eastaboga, Alabama - from Muscogee este (person), ak (in water, a low place), pokv (from the work vpoketv ...
Natchez, Louisiana – present-day village in Natchitoches Parish; after the Natchez people; Opelousas – for the native Appalousa people who formerly occupied the area; Ponchatoula is a name signifying "falling hair" or "hanging hair" or "flowing hair" from the Choctaw Pashi "hair" and itula or itola "to fall" or "to hang" or "flowing".
By the close of the 16th century, most of the core area of the Coosa was abandoned. The surviving population withdrew to a few villages along the Coosa River in Alabama. One such settlement was the King site, a small heavily fortified village of 277 to 517 people and 47 houses. [1]
A state designated American Indian reservation is the land area designated by a state for state-recognized American Indian tribes who lack federal recognition. Legal/Statistical Area Description [ 2 ]
Indian Springs Village (often simply called Indian Springs) is a town in Shelby County, Alabama, United States, in the Birmingham metropolitan area. It incorporated effective November 14, 1990. [ 2 ] At the 2010 census the population was 2,363, up from 2,225 in 2000.
Established as a federal reservation in 1984, the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation is governed by a nine-member tribal council and provides police, fire, judicial, and social services. A " bingo hall" has been wholly owned by the tribal government since 1990, along with some small industrial plants and a restaurant and motel.
Map of Alabama during the War of 1812. Hillabee is located in the center right. [1] Hillabee was an important Muscogee (Creek) town in east central Alabama before the Indian Removals of the 1830s. Hillabee was the center of a cluster of towns and villages, known as the Hillabee complex or, simply, Hillabee.
The most significant earthworks are a burial mound and the Copena Ceremonial Mound, the largest ceremonial mound surviving in present-day Alabama. The latter is 27 feet (8.2 m) high, with a base of 1.8 acres (7,300 m 2). The platform top has an area of 1-acre (4,000 m 2). The Copena culture developed from the complex Hopewell tradition, whose ...