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The term '''Mobilian''' has various meanings: |
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* [[Mobilian jargon]] - An informal [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] trade [[language]] used among the tribes of the US Southeast, primarily along the coast of the [[Gulf of Mexico]]. May have originally been the language of one particular tribe, such as the [[Choctaw]]. |
* [[Mobilian jargon]] - An informal [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] trade [[language]] used among the tribes of the US Southeast, primarily along the coast of the [[Gulf of Mexico]]. May have originally been the language of one particular tribe, such as the [[Choctaw]]. |
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* One of the [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] people with [[Chief Tuscaloosa]] in [[Alabama]] |
* One of the [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] people with [[Chief Tuscaloosa]] in [[Alabama]].<ref name="maubilianind">{{cite web|title="The Old Mobile Project Newsletter"|work="University of South Alabama Center for Archaeological |
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Studies"|url=http://www.usouthal.edu/archaeology/pdf/issue-17.pdf|accessdate=2007-11-19}}</ref> The later tribe by this name who were encountered by the [[French]] are theorized by scholars to be descended from inhabitants of the [[Mississippian]] town of Mauvila (also Maubila) which [[Hernando de Soto (explorer)|Hernando de Soto]]'s [[Spanish]] expedition destroyed in 1540.<ref name="maubilianind"/> |
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* The Mobilians were a Native American tribe present in the area of [[Mobile Bay]] in [[Alabama]] when the area was first settled by the French.<ref name="maubilianind"/> The city of [[Mobile, Alabama]] was named after this tribe.<ref name="maubilianind"/> |
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* A resident of the city of [[Mobile, Alabama]].<ref> |
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"ADAH: Alabama Moments (Mobile as a Confederate City--Details)" |
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(history), State of Alabama, webpage: |
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[http://www.alabamamoments.state.al.us/sec15det.html AL-US-s15]: |
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states "fashionable homes where Mobilians entertained" (topic). |
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* A resident of the city of [[Mobile, Alabama]].<ref name="mobilian">{{cite web|title="Mobilian Search"|work="City of Mobile"|url=http://www.cityofmobile.org/search.php?query=mobilian|accessdate=2007-11-19}}</ref> |
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==Other meanings== |
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* Mobilian is also a wifi-tech company founded in 1999 in Oregon, USA, and acquired by [[Intel Corporation]] in November 2003.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} |
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* Mabila, Alibamu which is the origin of the term "Mobilian" and means the "Mabila" Indians who were members of the Alibamu tribe (the name Alibamu means "brush gatherers" in the Choctaw Indian language). Thus, when we combine the names Mabila and Alibamu we have "paddlers" and "brush gatherers" which seems very appropriate for the local Indians that paddled canoes and gathered brush and other items (such as Palmetto leaves) along rivers and streams for their villages. |
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==Notes== |
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Revision as of 09:25, 19 November 2007
The term Mobilian has various meanings:
- Mobilian jargon - An informal Native American trade language used among the tribes of the US Southeast, primarily along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. May have originally been the language of one particular tribe, such as the Choctaw.
- One of the Native American people with Chief Tuscaloosa in Alabama.[1] The later tribe by this name who were encountered by the French are theorized by scholars to be descended from inhabitants of the Mississippian town of Mauvila (also Maubila) which Hernando de Soto's Spanish expedition destroyed in 1540.[1]
- The Mobilians were a Native American tribe present in the area of Mobile Bay in Alabama when the area was first settled by the French.[1] The city of Mobile, Alabama was named after this tribe.[1]
- A resident of the city of Mobile, Alabama.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d ""The Old Mobile Project Newsletter"" (PDF). "University of South Alabama Center for Archaeological Studies". Retrieved 2007-11-19.
{{cite web}}: line feed character in|work=at position 55 (help) - ^ ""Mobilian Search"". "City of Mobile". Retrieved 2007-11-19.