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Who is the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town?

Prior to the removal of the Muscogee Confederacy from their Southeastern homelands in the 1820’s and 30’s, the Alabama and Quassarte people each had a distinct identity as a Tribal Town(or Tribe) of the Confederacy.  The Confederacy consisted of more than 44  of these “Towns” scattered throughout the Southeastern woodlands. 

Due to the logistics (or locations) of their towns which were in near proximity to one another in what is now known as the State of Alabama, they shared many similar cultural characteristics such as certain aspects of their language, religious practices and social/familial structures.

With the advancement of European settlers into the region, many members of these two groups, in an attempt to avoid contact with the “invaders”, migrated Southwest into Louisiana and Texas in the 1790’s and early 1800’s where they remain today (Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana & Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas).  Those members who did not leave formed an alliance and became the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town. Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town »»