Apalachicola (people)
The Apalachicola , also Pallachacola , were a North American Indian people who lived on the Apalachicola River in northwestern Florida today . They spoke a dialect of the Muskogee languages that was similar to the Hitchiti . Their name comes from this language and means people from the other side , which is believed to refer to the river.
residential area
The Apalachicola settled in the 17th century on the Savannah River opposite today's Mount Pleasant, in a village that bore their name. After the Yamasee War around 1716, they retired to their former residential area at the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers . They later moved west to what is now Russell County, Alabama, and stayed there until they were forcibly relocated to Indian Territory from 1836 to 1840.
history
The name Apalachicola appears for the first time in Spanish documents of the seventeenth century, namely in 1675 as a name for a city and, in a broader sense, for all members of the Muskogee in this area. Around 1706 the tribe moved from the Apalachicola River to the Savannah River , which would later partially form the border between South Carolina and Georgia . One reason could have been the slave hunts financed by the British colonists, which killed numerous tribal members. A census in 1708 named the Apalachicola of the Savannah River as Naleathuckles and yielded the number of 80 warriors who settled 30 km upstream on the Savannah River. A more precise census was made in 1715, which identified the Apalachicola as a tribe that lived in two villages on the Savannah River. They had a total population of 214 people, made up of 64 men, 71 women, 42 boys and 37 girls.
During the Yamassee War from 1715 to 1717, the Apalachicola participated in the attacks by neighboring tribes on settlements of the British colonists in South Carolina. The Yamasee and the Apalachicola carried out raids on settlements in South Carolina until well into the 1720s, despite the peace treaties. The survivors then moved to the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers and later along the Chattahoochee River to what is now Russell County in Alabama. As a result of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Apalachicola were also forced to sign two treaties in 1833 and 1834 in which they had to swap their tribal territory in the southeast for land west of the Mississippi. In the years 1836 to 1840 the Apalachicola moved to the northern Indian territory , what is now Oklahoma . There they settled in the Creek Reservation and were gradually absorbed by the neighboring Creek. Today, her descendants are enrolled members of the state-recognized Muscogee (Creek) Nation .
The Apalachicola River, Apalachicola Bay, and the city of Apalachicola in Florida were named after the tribe.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Apalachicola Indians. Retrieved January 23, 2017 .