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PARANA 



The earliest known home of these Indians was on Hatchet Creek in 

 what is now Coosa County, Ala. Shortly after the foundation of Fort 

 Toulouse at the junction of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Kivers, which 

 happened in 1717, a part of them moved to that neighborhood to enjoy 

 trade advantages, and they never reunited. Those who remained in 

 their old country settled on the southern border of the Creek Nation 

 after their removal to Oklahoma, and their Square Ground occupies 

 the same spot today as the one then chosen. The other division of the 

 tribe moved to Ked River in 1763 or 1764, along with the Taensa and 

 Apalachee. In 1805 Sibley found them on Calcasieu River, La., and 

 according to Alabama tradition, they subsequently united with the 

 Alabama in Texas, where the last of them died many years ago. 



PaJcana 'population. — The Spanish estimate of 1738 mentions only 

 the Pakan Tallahassee Indians, whom it credits with 60 men. The 

 French census of 1750 gives 10 men in the old town and 30 near Fort 

 Toulouse; that of 1760 mentions only the latter, to which it assigns 

 50 men ; and the Georgia estimates of 1761 give 45 in Pakan Tallahas- 

 see and 30 in the southern group. As has been stated above, the latter 

 moved to Louisiana soon after this date. We have only one later 

 figure regarding them, that by Sibley, in 1805, who says they then had 

 about 30 men. Those who remained with the Creeks had 20 gunmen 

 in 1772, according to Taitt; and 50 in 1792, according to Marbury; 

 while their total population in 1832, shortly before the emigration, 

 was 288. 



PAMLICO 



The earliest known home of this tribe was on the lower course of 

 Pamlico River, N. C, and the neighboring coast, where they were dis- 

 covered by the English in 1584-85. In 1696 they were nearly destroyed 

 by smallpox and in 1710 were confined to a single village. They sided 

 with the hostile Tuscarora in the war of 1711-13, and at its close, that 

 part of the Tuscarora under treaty with the English agreed to exter- 

 minate them. The remnant was probably incorporated as slaves in the 

 Tuscarora. The Pamlico are the only Algonquian people of North 

 Carolina from whom a vocabulary has been preserved. 



Pamlico population. — In 1709, after they had been reduced to a single 

 village, they numbered 15 fighting men, or a population of perhaps 75. 



PASCAGOULA 



In 1699 this tribe was living 16 to 20 leagues (43 to 54 miles) up 

 Pascagoula River. Iberville heard of them early that year very shortly 

 after his arrival on the coast, and in the summer of 1699 Bienville 



