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The Mobile tribes left to settle in Louisiana
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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About the time when the other Mobile tribes left to settle in Louisiana the Chatot departed also, as we know by Sibley's entry regarding them, though he is wrong in speaking of them as " aborigines" of the part of Louisiana they then inhabited. His statement probably means that they had been one of the first tribes to settle on Bayou Beauf. The entry is as follows: "Chactoos live on Bayau Beauf, about ten miles to the southward of Bayau Rapide, on Red River, toward Appalousa; a small, honest people; are aborigines of the country where they live; of men about thirty; diminishing; have their own peculiar tongue; speak Mobilian. The lands they claim on Bayau Beauf are inferior to no part of Louisiana in depth and richness of soil, growth of timber, pleasantness of surface, and goodness of water."3 Their last appearance in history is in the enumeration of Indian tribes contained in Jedidiah Morse's Report to the Secretary of War regarding the Indians, where they are referred to as the "Chatteau," and are located on Sabine River, 50 miles above its mouth.4 This report was published in 1822, but the information applies to the year 1817. What happened to them later we do not know, but it is probable that they are represented by or in a Choctaw band in the neighborhood of Kinder, Louisiana. (Swanton)
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