﻿Powell.) 
  MUSKH0GEAN-NATCHE8AN 
  FAMILIES. 
  95 
  

  

  Upon 
  the 
  northeast 
  Muskhogean 
  limits 
  are 
  indeterraiuate. 
  The 
  

   Creek 
  claimed 
  only 
  to 
  the 
  Savannah 
  River; 
  but 
  upon 
  its 
  lower 
  

   course 
  the 
  Yaraasi 
  are 
  believed 
  to 
  have 
  extended 
  east 
  of 
  that 
  river 
  

   in 
  the 
  sixteenth 
  to 
  the 
  eighteenth 
  century. 
  1 
  The 
  territorial 
  line 
  be- 
  

   tween 
  the 
  Muskhogean 
  family 
  and 
  the 
  Catawba 
  tribe 
  in 
  South 
  Caro- 
  

   lina 
  can 
  only 
  be 
  conjectured. 
  

  

  It 
  seems 
  probable 
  that 
  the 
  whole 
  peninsula 
  of 
  Florida 
  was 
  at 
  one 
  

   time 
  held 
  by 
  tribes 
  of 
  Timuquanan 
  connection; 
  but 
  from 
  1702 
  to 
  1708, 
  

   when 
  the 
  Apalachi 
  were 
  driven 
  out, 
  the 
  tribes 
  of 
  northern 
  Florida 
  

   also 
  were 
  forced 
  away 
  by 
  the 
  English. 
  After 
  that 
  time 
  the 
  Semi- 
  

   nole 
  and 
  the 
  Yamasi 
  were 
  the 
  only 
  Indians 
  that 
  held 
  possession 
  of 
  

   the 
  Floridian 
  peninsula. 
  

  

  PRINCIPAL 
  TRIBES. 
  

  

  Alibamu. 
  Choctaw. 
  Seminole. 
  

  

  Apalachi. 
  Creek 
  or 
  Maskoki 
  proper. 
  Yamacraw. 
  

  

  Chicasa. 
  Koasati. 
  Yamasi. 
  

  

  Population. 
  — 
  There 
  is 
  an 
  Alibamu 
  town 
  on 
  Deep 
  Creek, 
  Indian 
  

   Territory, 
  an 
  affluent 
  of 
  the 
  Canadian, 
  Indian 
  Territory. 
  Mosi 
  of 
  

   the 
  inhabitants 
  are 
  of 
  this 
  tribe. 
  There 
  are 
  Alibamu 
  about 
  20 
  miles 
  

   south 
  of 
  Alexandria, 
  Louisiana, 
  and 
  over 
  one 
  hundred 
  in 
  Polk 
  County, 
  

   Texas. 
  

  

  So 
  far 
  as 
  known 
  only 
  three 
  women 
  of 
  the 
  Apalachi 
  survived 
  in 
  

   1886, 
  and 
  they 
  lived 
  at 
  the 
  Alibamu 
  town 
  above 
  referred 
  to. 
  The 
  

   United 
  States 
  Census 
  bulletin 
  for 
  1890 
  gives 
  the 
  total 
  number 
  of 
  pure- 
  

   blood 
  Choctaw 
  at 
  9,996, 
  these 
  being 
  principally 
  at 
  Union 
  Agency, 
  

   Indian 
  Territory. 
  Of 
  the 
  Chicasa 
  there 
  are 
  3,404 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  

   agency; 
  Creek 
  9,291; 
  Seminole 
  2,539; 
  of 
  the 
  latter 
  there 
  are 
  still 
  

   about 
  200 
  left 
  in 
  southern 
  Florida. 
  

  

  There 
  are 
  four 
  families 
  of 
  Koasati, 
  about 
  twenty-five 
  individuals. 
  

   near 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Shepherd. 
  Sau 
  Jacinto 
  County, 
  Texas. 
  Of 
  the 
  

   Yamasi 
  none 
  are 
  known 
  to 
  survive. 
  

  

  NATCHESAN 
  FAMILY. 
  

  

  >Natches, 
  Gallatin 
  in 
  Trans, 
  and 
  Coll. 
  Am. 
  Antiq. 
  Six-., 
  n. 
  95, 
  306, 
  1836 
  (Natches 
  

   only). 
  Prichard, 
  Phys. 
  Hist. 
  Mankind, 
  v. 
  402. 
  403, 
  1N47. 
  

  

  >Natsches. 
  Berghaus 
  (184."i). 
  Physik. 
  Atlas, 
  map 
  IT. 
  1S4X. 
  Ibid., 
  ls.V„>. 
  

  

  >Natehez. 
  Bancroft, 
  Hist. 
  U. 
  S.. 
  -'4s. 
  1S40. 
  Gallatin 
  in 
  Trans. 
  Am. 
  Etli. 
  Sue. 
  u. 
  

   pt. 
  1. 
  xcix. 
  77. 
  1848 
  (Natchez 
  only). 
  Latham, 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  Man. 
  340, 
  1850 
  

   (tends 
  to 
  include 
  Taensas. 
  Pascagoulas, 
  Colapissas, 
  Biluxi 
  in 
  same 
  family). 
  

   Gallatin 
  in 
  Schoolcraft, 
  Ind. 
  Tribes, 
  in. 
  401, 
  1853 
  (Natchez 
  only). 
  Keane. 
  App. 
  

   Stanford's 
  Comp. 
  (Cent, 
  and 
  So. 
  Am.), 
  460, 
  47:!. 
  1878 
  (suggests 
  that 
  it 
  may 
  in- 
  

   clude 
  the 
  Utchees). 
  

  

  >Naktche, 
  Gatschet, 
  ( 
  'reek 
  Mig. 
  Legend, 
  1,34,1884. 
  Gatschet 
  in 
  Science. 
  414. 
  April 
  

   39, 
  1887. 
  

  

  'Gatschet, 
  Creek 
  Mig. 
  Legend. 
  lss4, 
  vol. 
  1, 
  p. 
  63. 
  

  

  