FDI - Mobile

The Mobile were a sedentary hunter/farmer nation. They lived on the west side of the Mobile River below the junction of the Alabama and Tombigbee. Their aboriginal numbers may be inflated or they took large losses from conflict and/or disease. They eventually absorbed into the Choctaw.

Aboriginal Locations (# of Villages)

AL (40)

Year	*History*
1540	Chief Tuscaloosa attacked the Spanish and De Leon inflicting heavy losses losing and 2,500 or more
1559	Visited by Spaniard De Luna at village of Nanipacna
1686	Spanish letter speaks of them at war with Pensacola
17XX	Moved to near present Mobile before being absorbed into the Choctaw tribe

Year	Total AL Population	Source
1540	6,500	per De Leon
1650	2,000	Mooney estimate
1700	400	NAHDB calculation
1725	200	Bieville estimate
1800	0	NAHDB calculation
1900	0	NAHDB calculation
2000	0	NAHDB calculation

Other speakers of the same language:

Acolapissa, Bayougoula, Chakchiuma, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Houma, Napochi, Okelusa, Pascagoula, Pensacola, Tohome

Mobile Sites:

Choctaw Indians http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/CC/bmc57.html

Choctaw Language http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Virtual_Books/Keeping_It/creole_book_keep_choc.html

Choctaw Language http://www.angelfire.com/al2/gasaguali/CHOCTAW.HTM

Choctaw Language http://www.turtle-tracks.org/issue84/i84_10.html

Choctaw Language http://www.native-languages.org/choctaw.htm

Choctaw Language http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=CCT

Choctaw Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=CCT

Choctaw Vocabulary http://www.native-languages.org/choctaw_words.htm

De Soto: A Savage Quest in the Americas http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3880/is_199804/ai_n8791149

De Soto's Southeastern Trails http://www.floridahistory.com/inset91.html

DeSoto's Southern Trail http://1st-history-of-the.us/inset94.html

Mobile Indian Tribe History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/muskhogean/mobilehist.htm

*Ethnie:*	MOBILE (MABILA)
*Language:*	Choctaw
*Family:*	Western Muskhogean
*Stock:*	Muskhogean
*Phylum:*	Algic
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands