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Chactoo - A
band of Indians, possibly related to the
Atakapa, who were documented
in 1753 as living in Louisiana. In 1805 they were living on Bayou
Boeuf, about ten miles south of Bayou Rapide, toward Opelousas, and
numbered 30 men. They were not
Choctaw, and in addition to their own
language, they they also spoke the Mobilian trade language.
Chakchiuma -
A
tribe speaking a
Choctaw-Chickasaw dialect, that formerly lived on
the Yazoo River in Mississippi. At that time they were probably the
most populous of the Yazoo
tribes. During Hernando de Soto's
Expedition in 1540-41, they lived in a walled town. During the 18th
century they were included in the
Chickasaw confederacy, and had a
reputation of being warlike. Later, they moved to the east side of the
Mississippi River with the
Choctaw and
Chickasaw and settled on the
Tallahatchie River.
Chakankni - A Molala band formerly
settled in the Cascade Range, northwest of upper Klamath lake, on the
headwaters of Rogue River in
Oregon. By the 1880's, they were rapidly
becoming absorbed by the neighboring
tribes and had practically given
up their own language for that of the Klamath.
Chatot -
Related to the
Choctaw, this band was living south of Fort St. Louis
in Mobile Bay, Alabama in 1709 when French colonizer, Sieur de
Bienville wanted to establish a settlement in the area. The Chatot
spoke both the French and
Choctaw languages.
Another band by the same name also lived in the
upper Apalachicola River and Chipola
River basins in Florida. This group a Muskogean language, which may
have been the same as that of the Pensacola
tribe. By 1675, the
Spanish had established several missions for the Chatot.
Chaui - A
tribe of the Pawnee
Confederacy, they held a a prominent place in the Council of the
Confederacy, their head chiefs outranking all others. In 1833 they
ceded to the United States their lands south of Platte River,
Nebraska, and in 1857 all lands on the north side of of the river when
the Pawnee Reservation on Loup River in mid-central
Nebraska was
established. After the state of
Nebraska was admitted into the Union,
the state government extinguished the
tribe's rights to their land. It
soon sold the land and used the proceeds to defray expenses to obtain
lands in Indian Territory for a new reservation in 1876. The
tribe was
then relocated to Oklahoma. In 1892, their land was again taken in
severalty and tribal members became citizens of the United States.
Later, in 1964, the Pawnee Nation
was $7,316,096.55 for undervalued ceded land from the previous century.
Chaushila - A Yokut
tribe that formerly
lived in central California, north of Fresno River, probably on lower
Chowchilla River,. Their neighbors on the north were of Moquelumnan
stock. Extinct today, they are often confused with, but are distinct
from, the Chowchilla
tribe.
Chawasha -
An Indian
tribe of Louisiana, the formerly lived on the Bayou La Fourche and eastward to the Gulf of Mexico and across the
Mississippi River. Today, they are part of the federally recognized
tribe of the Chitimacha, along with the Washa and Yagenachito
tribes, the
confederation once occupied about fifteen villages. The name Chawasha
is a
Choctaw term meaning "Raccoon Place." When Columbus first came to
America, the combined strength of the four groups was estimated to be
about 20,000. However, as more and more European settlers came to the
area, the
tribes suffered greatly from infectious diseases which
reduced their number in half by 1700. At that time, the Chawasha had
about 700 people.
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