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Chatot Indian Tribe
History
Chatot. A
tribe or band which the French settled south of Ft St Louis, on Mobile
bay, Ala., in 1709. Bienville, wishing to change his settlement, "selected
a place where the nation of the Chatots were residing, and gave them in
exchange for it a piece of territory fronting on Dog river, 2 leagues
farther down" (Pcnicaut,1709, in French, Hist. Coll. La., 1, 103, 1869).
According to Baudry des Lozieres (Voy., 1794) the Chatot and Tohome tribes
were related to the Choctaw and spoke the French and Choctaw languages.
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