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Apalachicola |
| Ethnie: | APALACHICOLA |
| Language: | Mikasuki |
| Family: | Eastern Muskogee |
| Stock: | Muskogee |
| Phylum: | Algic |
| Macro-Culture: | Eastern Woodlands |
| Speakers | None |
| The Apalachicola were a hunter/farmer tribe located along the Apalachicola River in Georgia. They allied with the Spanish and Muskhogee, but were victims of attacks by the British and other tribes. The tribe ultimately joined the Creek Confederacy |
| Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions (Villages) |
| GA (2 0r 3) |
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| Year | History |
| 1690 | Did not allow two Franciscan missionaries to remain with tribe |
| 1706 | Heavy losses in English and Indian attacks, tribes scattered |
| 1757 | Moved to near Lower Creeks |
| 1836 | Moved to Oklahoma, and absorbed by Creek |
| Year | Total Pop. | AL | GA | Source | |
| 1700 | 500 | 500 | NAHDB calculation | ||
| 1738 | 315 | Spanish census | |||
| 1792 | 100 | American estimate | |||
| 1800 | 250 | 250 | NAHDB calculation | ||
| 1832 | 239 | Census | |||
| 1900 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |||
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Chiaha, Hitchiti, Miccosuki, Oconee, Ocmulgee, Sawokli, Tamathli, Yamasee |
| Apalachicola Sites: |
| Apalachicola River Reservations http://fcit.usf.edu/FLORIDA/maps/nat_am/nat_am02.htm |
| Miccosuki Language http://www.native-languages.org/mikasuki.htm |
| Mikasuki Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=mik |
| Mikasuki Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=92336 |
| Northwest Florida Place Names http://www.snyderweb.com/placenames/book03.htm |
| Observations on the Seminole Indians - 1823 http://www.seminolenation-indianterritory.org/observations.htm |
| Oklahoma Seminole Towns of 1900 http://www.seminolenation-indianterritory.org/seminole_towns_of_1900.htm |
| Seminole and Apalachicola Records http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~texlance/seminoles/ |
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