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Capinan
Historical Indigenous tribe from Alabama and Mississippi, U.S. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Capinan (also called Capina[2]) were a small tribe of Native American people from Alabama and Mississippi.[1]
The Capinan lived along the Gulf Coast region along the Pascagoula River[1] [3] 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.[4]
The Capinan may have been the same tribe as the Moctobi[4] 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[1] 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.[3][1]
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