Alabama people

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Alabama people are a Native American tribe historically based in the southeastern United States, culturally related to other Muskogean-speaking groups.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Alabama people canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American people
indigenous ethnic group
associatedWithRiver Alabama River
ceremonialPractice Green Corn Ceremony
continent North America
culturalArea Southeastern Woodlands
culturallyRelatedTo Chickasaw people
Choctaw people
Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana
surface form: Koasati (Coushatta) people

Muscogee people
surface form: Muscogee (Creek) people

Seminole
surface form: Seminole people
currentStatePresence Alabama
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Texas
encounteredColonialPower France
Great Britain
Spain
ethnicGroupOf United States of America
surface form: United States
federallyRecognizedTribeIn United States of America
surface form: United States
historicalPeriodOfContact 16th century
historicalRegion Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
languageFamily Muskogean languages
linguisticBranch Muskogean languages
surface form: Eastern Muskogean
modernCommunity Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas
nameGaveRiseTo Alabama
surface form: U.S. state of Alabama
nameLanguageOrigin Muskogean languages
partOfBroaderGroup Southeastern Indigenous nations
surface form: Southeastern Native American tribes
primaryRegion Southern United States
surface form: Southeastern United States
relatedEthnonym Alabama-Coushatta
Alibamu
spoke Alabama language
traditionalEconomy horticulture
trade
traditionalHousing thatched structures
wooden houses
traditionalLanguage Alabama language
traditionalPoliticalOrganization town-based chiefdoms
traditionalReligion southeastern Native ceremonialism
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering wild foods
hunting
maize agriculture

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Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Southeastern Woodlands includesPeople Alabama people
Koasati relatedEthnicGroup Alabama people
Alabama language spokenBy Alabama people
Koasati people closelyRelatedTo Alabama people