FDI - Napochi

The Napochi were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe. They were located along the Black Warrior River. Early conflicts forced at least some of the Napochi into joining the Chickasaw. The Napochi may, on the other hand, be the original tribe of the Acolapissa.

Aboriginal Locations (# of Villages)

AL (?)

Present Locations

Probably confederated into the Chickasaw now in OK, and/or may be the ancestors of the Acolapissa who confederated into the Houma in LA

Year	*History*
1559	Name of tribe appears in account of Don Tristan de Luna
1560	De Luna assisted people of Coosa against Napochi reducing them to "allegiance", tribe possibly later joined Chickasaw
1700	Iberville identified what may have been Napochi ancestors among Chickasaw

Year	Total AL Population	Source
Arrival	1,000	NAHDB aboriginal estimate
1700	0	NAHDB calculation
1800	0	NAHDB calculation
1900	0	NAHDB calculation
2000	0	NAHDB calculation

Other speakers of the same language:

Acolapissa, Bayougoula, Chakchiuma, Chickasaw, Houma, Mobile, Okelusa, Pascagoula, Pensacola, Tohome

Napochi Sites:

Alabama Indian Tribes http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/alabama/

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

*Ethnie:*	NAPOCHI
*Language:*	Choctaw
*Family:*	Western Muskhogean
*Stock:*	Muskhogean
*Phylum:*	Algic
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands