Chatot
Tribal territory of Chatot during the 16th century highlighted
Total population
Extinct as a tribe
Regions with significant populations
United States (Florida)
Languages
Muskogean
Religion
Native
Related ethnic groups
Pensacola, Choctaw and other Muskogean tribes

The Chatot (also Chacato or Chactoo) were a Native American tribe who lived in the upper Apalachicola River and Chipola River basins in what is now Florida. They spoke a Muskogean language, which may have been the same as that of several other peoples in western Florida, including the Amacano, Chine, Pacara, and Pensacola. Patricia Galloway, author of Choctaw Genesis, 1500–1700, posited that the Chatot were connected with the Choctaw. The Chatot were involved in a war with the Apalachee and Amacano people in 1639.[1]

The Spanish established three or four missions to the Chatot by 1675; Asunción/Asumpción del Puerto, la Encarnación (also called Santa Cruz de Sábacola el menor), San Nicolás de Tolentino (listed only in Geiger, 1940) and San Carlos de los Chacatos. These missions were located near the upper Apalachicola River. The historian John Hann places the missions of Asunción, la Encarnatión and San Carlos in the Apalachee Province of the Spanish mission system in Florida. The historian Maynard Geiger also places Asunción in Apalachee Province, but he places la Encarnación, San Nicolás and San Carlos in the Apalachicola Province. Milanich places San Carlos de Chacatos in Apalachee Province, serving Chacatos who had moved into the province.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Milanich 1995, p. 96; Hall 2000, p. 128; Hann 2006, p. 11; Galloway 1995.
  2. ↑ Hann 1990, pp. 420, 490, 494; Geiger 1940, pp. 128, 130–1; Milanich 1995, pp. 178, 221.

References

  • Geiger, Maynard (1940). "Biographical Dictionary of the Franciscans in Spanish Florida and Cuba (1528-1841)". Franciscan Studies. 21: V–IX, XI–XII, 1–117, 119–140. JSTOR 43900081.
  • Hall, Joseph (2000). "Confederacy Formation on the Fringes of Spanish Florida". Mediterranean Studies. 9: 123–141. ISSN 1074-164X. JSTOR 41166915.
  • Hann, John H. (April 1990). "Summary Guide to Spanish Florida Missions and Visitas with Churches in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries". The Americas. 46 (4): 417–513. doi:10.2307/1006866. JSTOR 1006866.
  • Hann, John H. (2006). The Native American World Beyond Apalachee. University Press of Florida. ISBN 9-780-8130-2982-5.
  • Milanich, Jerald T. (1995). Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe (paperback ed.). University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-1636-8.
  • Galloway, Patricia. "Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700". Nebraska Press. Retrieved 2023-03-08.


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