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#REDIRECT [[Mobilian Jargon]] |
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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]]. |
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* One of the [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] people with [[Chief Tuscaloosa]] in the fortified [[Mississippian culture|Mississippian]] town of Mauvila (also Maubila) which [[Hernando de Soto (explorer)|Hernando de Soto]]'s [[Spain|Spanish]] expedition destroyed in 1540.<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 [[France|French]] around [[Mobile Bay]] are theorized by scholars to be descended from this group of people.<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 in the early 1700s.<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 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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