Native American Nations of the Southeastern United States
83The Southeastern Nations
While these lists are not fully inclusive, they represent major nations, bands, and independent groups among Native Americans in the Southeastern States. Additional groups emerge and request recognition on the state and federal levels regularly. There are a number of state-recognized groups and other groups in the process of attaining either state or federal recognition in addition to those presented below.
As Native Americans moved eastward from the North and the Pacific Northwest Coast to fill the continent, they met Europeans that eventually drove them back foprm the East, many of them onto reservations in the West. The American West is home to the largest numbers of reservations in the 21st Century, and some eastern states have none.
- Photo credit and Link: Louisiana FolkLife Center @ Northwestern State | Home
Th ephot to the right is that of Mr. Roy Parfait, a Native American Wood Carver at his work. His Biography and additional photos are presented at this link.
Map of the Southeastern USA
SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI NATIVE BUSINESS
- Biloxi Nation - The original name in Biloxi language is Taneks-anya or first people. It was also known as Anaxis and Annocchy, gradually becoming Biloxi. Related to Sioux Nation.
- Capinans Nation - Related to Biloxi Nation, Pascagoula Nation; all related to the Sioux.
- Moctobi Nation - English speakers in 1699 made up this name for a group that lived with Biloxi Pascagoula Nations.
- Pascagoula Nation. - Name means bread people and they made specialty breads that are still available today. Also called Mfskigula, probably actually Muskhogeans to the Biloxi.
Native Americans in Southern Mississippi are successful in Native-owned businesses, Pow Wows, and partnerships with university study and research programs that lead to new job creation.
State by State Listings
- Arkansas
- Arkansas Band of Western Cherokee
- Chickamauga Cherokee Nation
- Chickamauga Cherokee Nation, the White River Band
Louisiana
- Adais Caddo
- Biloxi Chitimacha
- Chitimacha Tribe of Louisana
- Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb
- Clifton Choctaw Tribe
- Coushatta Tribe
- Four Winds Tribe LA Cherokee
- Indian Township Reservation
- Jena Band of Choctaws
- Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana
- United Houma Nation
Mississippi
- Biloxi Nation
- Capinans Nation
- CHOCTAW Nation: Mississippi Choctaw Reservation: Tribal Council of the Mississippi Band of Choctaws; Box 6010- Choctaw Branch, Philadelphia MS 39350
- Moctobi Nation
- Pascagoula Nation
Alabama
- Mowa band of Choctaw, Choctaw Agency. Route 1, Box 330-A, Reservation Rd. Mt. Vernon AL 36560
- Poarch band of Creek, Choctaw Agency. HCR69A, Box 85-B Atmore AL 36502
Georgia State Recognized Tribes
- American Cherokee Confederacy, Inc. 619 Pine Cone Road. Albany, Georgia 31705-6908
- Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee
- Lower Muscogee Creek Tribe Route 2, Box 370. Whigham, Georgia 31797
- The Cherokee of Georgia, Saint George, Georgia 31646
Florida Nations and Bands
- Ais
- Calusa
- Seminole
- Tequesta
- Timucua
- Tocobaga
Florida Reservations
- Big Cypress Reservation, Seminole Agency , 6075 Stirling Rd. Hollywood FL 33024
- Brighton Reservation, Seminole Agency. 6075 Stirling Rd. Hollywood, FL 33024
- Miccosukee Reservation, Eastern Area Office. Box 440021, Tamiami Station. Miami, FL 33144
- Seminole Reservation, Seminole Agency. 6300 Stirling Road, Hollywood, FL 33024
Bands of the Gulf Coast
- Atakapa
- Chitimacha
- Natchez
- Tunica
Southeast Native Americans in History
- Smallpox Epidemics
Smallpox was spread by Europeans through Native groups in Florida and Southeast. - Cherokee Nation
Tribal website. - Trail of Tears
Forced removal from Georgia of the Cherokee Nation. - US National Park Service
Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. - Seminole Tribe of Florida
Tribal website. - The Gullahs
Black Seminoles and Gullahs escaped from slavery in Florida.
PART II of Southeastern Nations
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Thank you both MrMarmalade and gabriella05!
Have you read Piers Anthony's "Tatham Mound"? It is a FANTASTIC source of information about Southeastern Tribes at the time of the arrival of the white man.
I also suggest that a tour of Mountville, AL. It's a great an informative restored pre-Columbian Muskogee Indian site.
I am a Creek Indian and a member of the Poarch Band of Creeks. The current address is 5811 Jack Springs Road, Atmore, AL 36502
Thank you for that infomration, bohica! Piers Anthony is a fantastic author and I will find that book. The next time I go thorugh Alamaba, I will surely visit Mountville. Thanks again.
Seems to me the most important Nation the Choctaws
are left off this website.
I am trying to locate the Choctaw Reservation in Georgia, the Mississippi Choctaw during Indian Removals.
Every website says Cherokee in reservations in georgia.
Could it be possible the Mississippi Choctaws are really Cherokee? Someone let me know your thoughts @ sweetascoco@yahoo.com
Oklahoma Choctaw nation: http://www.choctawnation.com/
Mississippi Choctaw nation: http://www.choctaw.org/
The Georgia band of Choctaw were moved to Mississippi; however, Choctaw had also lived in Alabama and Louisiana.
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MrMarmalade 4 years ago
Another great river of time from the past
Thank you again