THE MOWA BAND ARE STABLE RECOGNIZED IN SOUTH ALABAMA. THEIR RESERVATION IS ALONG MOBIL AND TOMBIGBEE RIVERS ON 300 ACRES. IN ADDITION ABOUT 3500 FOLKS LIVE NEARBY THE RESERVATION. THEY ARE DESCENDED FROM CHOCTAW TO INDIAN TERRITORY.
IN THE LATE 1900'S THEY WANTED TO GAIN RECOGNITION FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. SO FAR THEY ARE ARE UNSUCCESSFUL. THE AREA WAS SETTLED EARLY BY NATIVE AMERICANS AND LATE ANGLOS. SOME INTERMARRIED OF COURSE. SOME NATIVE AMERICANS WERE REFUGEES AFTER THE CREEK WAR. BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAD PERIODIC INDIAN ROUND UPS AND RAIDS BY SLAVE TRADERS. NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE SOUTH BECAME A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO DID NOT OFFICIALLY EXIST. SOME BLACKS MARRIED INDIANS. THEY HAD RECOGNIZED INDIAN SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTIES. BY 1979 THE CHOCTAW ORGANIZED THE MOWA BAND TO IDENTIFY NATIVE AMERICANS IN MOBILE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES WHO DESCENDED FROM A NUMBER OF TRIBES. THEY HAVE POWWOWS, ANNUAL FESTIVALS. THEY STILL PRESERVE THE CHOCTAW TRADITIONS AND RITUALS AND SURVIVE BY HUNTERS AND GATHERING AND FISHING AND USING MEDICINAL PLANTS.
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