Tohome
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Tohome |
| Ethnie: | TOHOME |
| Language: | Choctaw |
| Family: | Western Muskhogean |
| Stock: | Muskhogean |
| Phylum: | Algic |
| Macro-Culture: | Eastern Woodlands |
| The Tohome were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe. They were located about McIntosh's Bluff on the west bank of the Tombigbee River, some miles above its junction with the Alabama. They united early with the Choctaw. |
| Aboriginal Locations (# of Villages) |
| AL Little Tohome or Nanaiba, Big Tohome (2) |
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| Year | History |
| 1559 | Mentioned in DeLuna narratives as being on Tombigee River |
| 1693 | Mentioned in survey of Pensacola Bay |
| 1702 | Iberville sent messengers to this tribe with whom he subsequently had friendly relations |
| 1705 | Tribe received protection from French against Alabama attack who also prevented tribe from declaring war on Mobile tribe |
| 1715 | Killed English trader Hughes |
| 1730 | Had moved to just north of Mobile per Du Pratz |
| 1771 | United with Choctaw soon after this date |
| Year | Total AL Population | Source | |
| 1700 | 300 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1702 | 300 | Iberville | |
| 1730 | 110 | Regin de Rouilet estimate | |
| 1800 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1900 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Acolapissa, Bayougoula, Chakchiuma, Chickasaw, Houma, Mobile, Napochi, Okelusa, Pascagoula, Pensacola |
| Tohome 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 |
| Tohome Indian Tribe History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/muskhogean/tohomeindianhist.htm |
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