The Chatot (also Chacato or Chactoo) were a
Native American tribe who lived in the upper
Apalachicola River and
Chipola River
The Chipola River is a tributary of the Apalachicola River in western Florida. It is part of the ACF River Basin watershed.
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basins in what is now
Florida
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. They spoke a
Muskogean language
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, which may have been the same as that of the
Pensacola people
The Pensacola were a Native American people who lived in the western part of what is now the Florida Panhandle and eastern Alabama for centuries before first contact with Europeans until early in the 18th century. They spoke a Muskogean language. ...
.
The
Spanish
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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
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province of the
Spanish mission system in Florida. The historian Maynard Geiger also places Asunción in the Apalachee province, but he places la Encarnación, San Nicolás and San Carlos in the
Apalachicola province.
[Hann.]
Geiger:128, 130-1 (Thomas:18, 20-1)
Notes
References
*Geiger, Maynard. (1940). "Biographical Dictionary of the Franciscans in Spanish Florida and Cuba (1528-1841)." ''Franciscan Studies.'' Vol. XXI. Reprinted in David Hurst Thomas, Ed. (1991). ''The Missions of Spanish Florida.'' Garland Publishing.
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*Milanich, Jerald T. (1995). ''Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe''. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.
Extinct Native American peoples
Native American tribes in Florida
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