PAKANA INDIANS IN ALABAMA

THESE PEOPLE INCORPORATED IN THE MUSKOGEAN CONFEDERATION WHICH WERE PROBABLY DISTINCT BODIES WHO DID NOT SPEAK A DIALECT. THE PAKANAS ARE KNOWN AS A TRADITION TO HAVE BEEN A DISTINCT PEOPLE AND THEIR ANCIENT TOWNS IN COOSA COUNTY. THE AU-BIN-KAS HAVE A TRADITION THAT THEY WERE A DISTINCT PEOPLE AND IN OLD TIMES WERE NUMEROUS . THEY INTERMARRIED WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS AND TRIBES.

THE CREEKS SAY THE PAKANA SEPARATED FROM THE ABIHKA. IT IS EVIDENT THAT IT WAS DUE TO THE PROXIMITY OF THE TWO PEOPLE IN ANCIENT TIMES AND THE NUMBER OF INTERMARRIAGES THAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN THEM. AFTER INDIAN REMOVAL THEY SETTLED IN THE CREEK NATION NEAR HANNAH, OKLAHOMA.

THE PAKANA HAVE MAINTAINED THEIR SQUARE GROUND HERE EVER SINCE. THE PAKANA WHO SETTLED NEAR FORT TOULOUWSE AND NEVER REJOINED THEIR KINDRED. IN 1764 THE GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA CALLS THEM PAKANAS DES ALIBAMOUS, FROM THE FRENCH OR AS THEY WERE RELATED TO THE ALABAMA INDIANS.

THE PAKANA ARE WITHIN MUSHOGEAN CONFEDERATION WHICH WERE PROBABLY DISTINCT BANDS AND DID NOT CERTAINLY POSSESS A PARTICULAR DIALECT. THE MUSKOGEE AND PAKANA ARE NEIGHBORS. THEIR ANCIENT TOWN IS IN THE COOSA COUNTY . THE ABBIHKAS HAVE A TRADITION THAT THEY WERE A DISTINCT PEOPLE AND THAT THEY WERE IN OLD TIMES VERY NUMEROUS. THEY WERE ASSIMILATED WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS WITHOUT DISTINCTION.

THE MODERN CREEKS SAY THE PAKANA SEPARATED FROM ABIHKA, HOWEVER THEY INTERMARRIED. AN OLD HILLIBIMAN TOLD ME THIS TOWN WAS FOUNDED BY WIOGUFKA INDIANS NAMED BAKNA. STIGGINS ACCOUNTED FOR THE PAKANAS AS THEY ARE A SMALL TRIBE OF ABOUT THIRTY MEN WHO ARE A DISTINCT PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN AN ANCIENT TOWN CALLED PUCCAN TALLAHASSEE, ALABAMA. IN THE OLD TIMES THEY WERE VERY DISTINCT AND HAD MANY PEOPLE IN THEIR TRIBE.

A TRADITION AMONG THE MODERN CREEKS IS THAT THE PAKANA SEPARATED FROM THE ABIHKA, AND IT IS EVIDENT THAT IT WAS DUE TO THE PROXIMITY OF THE TWO PEOPLE IN ANCIENT TIMES AND THEIR INTERMARRIAGES. WAKOKAI, THE MOTHER TOWN OF WIOGUFKI, AND THE PAKANA TOWN WERE CLOSE TO EACH OTHER.

THE PAKANA SETTLED NEAR FORT TOULOUSE AND MUSKOGEE OR OTHER INDIANS OCCUPIED THIS SITE. THE PAKANA ARE A SMALL TRIBE WHOSE VILLAGE IS 50 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF NATCHICHOCHES.

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