Date published: 1922-01-01
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Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors (ID121)Author: Swanton, John (ID85)
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1763-01-01 - 1763-12-31
The Tohome merged with the Choctaw
The Tohome and Naniaba come to the surface still later in a French document dated some time before the cession of Mobile to Great Britain (1763)3 and in a list of Choctaw towns and chiefs compiled by the English, 1771-72.' It is probable that the languages spoken by them were so close to Choctaw that they afterwards passed as Choctaw and, mingling with the true Choctaw, in time forgot their own original separateness. And this probability is strengthened by a Choctaw census made by Regis du Roullet, a French officer, in 1730, who classes the Tohome, Naniaba, and some Indians "aux mobiliens" as "Choctaw established on the river of Mobile." 4
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