Monday, August 8, 2011

TUSKEGEE INDIANS IN TENNESSEE

THE TUSKEGEE WERE A SEDENTARY HUNTING AND FARMING TRIBE LOCATED ON COOSA AND TALAPOSSA RIVER. THEY HAD TWO BANDS AND A FEW FOLKS MIGRATED TO FLORIDA AND JOINED THE SEMINOLES THEY SPOKE ALABAMA.

THE MEANING OF THEIR NAME WAS 'WARRIOR'. THEIR LANGUAGE IS UNKNOWN. SOME OF THEM BELIEVED ON THE UPPER PART OF TENNESSEE. IN 1540 DE SOTO PASSED THROUGH TOWN BEFORE HE ENTERED COOSA. BY THE DOSE OF THE 17TH CENTURY THE TUSKEGEE DIVIDED INTO TWO BANDS ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER.

IN 1832 THEY HAD A POPULATION OF 216.

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