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Kaskinampo

*Ethnie:*	KASKINAMPO
*Language:*	Koasati
*Family:*	Muskhogean
*Stock:*	Muskhogean
*Phylum:*	Algic
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands
Speakers	Extinct

The Kaskinampo were a sedentary hunter/farmer nation. They were located along the Mississippi in present Phillips County, Arkansas when De Soto arrived. The belligerence of the larger neighbor nations apparently forced many relocations and ultimately forced them to confederate with their close relatives, the Coushatta.

Aboriginal Locations

AR Probably several villages near Helena

Present Locations

TX Ancestors probably absorbed into the Alabama-Coushatta in Texas

Year	*History*
1541	Appear in De Soto narratives under name of Casqui or Casquin as found near present Helena. Arkansas
1673	Visited by Marquette and Joliet
1701	Had moved to the Cumberland River and then on to the Tennessee River on the lower end of Pine Island [?] where the Coushatta were living on the upper end.
1800	Had probably joined the Coushatta

Year	Total Population	TN	Source
1700	1,000	1,000	NAHDB calculation
1701	1,000		Canadian estimate of 150 warriors
1800	0		NAHDB calculation (had merged into Alabama tribe)
1900	0		NAHDB calculation
2000	0		NAHDB calculation

Other speakers of the same language:

Alabama, Coushatta, Muklasa, Pawokti, Tuskegee

Kaskinampo Sites:

Alabama-Coushatta Indians http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/AA/bma19.html

Koasati Language http://www.native-languages.org/koasati.htm

Koasati Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=cku

Koasati Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=cku

Public Anthropology http://www.publicanthropology.org/Archive/Aa1930.htm