Capinan
Historical Indigenous tribe from Alabama and Mississippi, U.S.
title: "Capinan" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["extinct-native-american-tribes", "native-american-tribes-in-alabama", "native-american-tribes-in-mississippi", "pre-statehood-history-of-mississippi"] description: "Historical Indigenous tribe from Alabama and Mississippi, U.S." topic_path: "history" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capinan" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Historical Indigenous tribe from Alabama and Mississippi, U.S. ::
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| Field | Value |
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| group | Capinan |
| total | extinct as a tribe |
| total_year | |
| total_source | |
| total_ref | |
| regions | United States (Alabama, Mississippi) |
| languages | unattested, possibly a Siouan language |
| religions | Indigenous religion |
| related_groups | possibly Pascagoula and Biloxi |
| :: |
| group = Capinan | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | image_caption = | image_alt = | image_upright = | total = extinct as a tribe | total_year = | total_source = | total_ref = | genealogy = | regions = United States (Alabama, Mississippi) | languages = unattested, possibly a Siouan language | religions = Indigenous religion | related_groups = possibly Pascagoula and Biloxi The Capinan (also called Capina) were a small tribe of Native American people from Alabama and Mississippi.
The Capinan lived along the Gulf Coast region along the Pascagoula River almost north to its headwaters. They appear along the Pascagoula River, directly south of the Chickasaws in maps drawn by French cartographer Guillaume Delisle in 1703 and 1707.
The Capinan may have been the same tribe as the Moctobi and may have been a sub-tribe of the Pascagoula and Biloxi, both historically from Mississippi. The Capinan's language is unattested, but they might have spoken a Siouan language like the Biloxi.
French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville visited the tribe in 1699, and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville in 1725.
References
References
- Patricia Roberts Clark. (31 July 2009). "Tribal Names of the Americas: Spelling Variants and Alternative Forms, Cross-Referenced". McFarland.
- "Indian Tribes of Mississippi". Mississippi Department of Archives & History.
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=Fp6eAwAAQBAJ Hodge, p. 203]
- Donald B. Ricky. (2000). "Encyclopedia of Mississippi Indians: Tribes, Natives, Treaties of the Southeastern Woodlands Area". North American Book Dist LLC.
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