Koasati people

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The Koasati people are a Native American tribe of the southeastern United States, closely related to other Muskogean-speaking groups and today primarily associated with the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Koasati people canonical 8

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
Native American people ⓘ
affectedBy Indian Removal policies of the United States ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Coushatta people ⓘ
associatedTribalEntity Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Alabama people ⓘ
Chickasaw people ⓘ
Choctaw people ⓘ
Muscogee (Creek) people ⓘ
linked to: Muscogee people

Seminole people ⓘ
linked to: Seminole
continent North America ⓘ
culturalPractice Green Corn Ceremony ⓘ
stomp dance ⓘ
culturalRegion Southeastern Woodlands ⓘ
currentReservation Coushatta Reservation, Louisiana ⓘ
endonymLanguage Koasati language ⓘ
ethnicGroupOf United States ⓘ
federallyRecognizedTribe Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana ⓘ
governmentType tribal government ⓘ
historicalPresenceIn Alabama ⓘ
Florida ⓘ
Georgia ⓘ
Mississippi ⓘ
historicalRegion Southeastern United States ⓘ
languageFamily Muskogean languages ⓘ
languageRevitalizationEfforts yes ⓘ
languageStatus endangered ⓘ
matrilinealDescent yes ⓘ
migration relocation to Louisiana in 18th and 19th centuries ⓘ
modernPresenceIn Louisiana ⓘ
Texas ⓘ
nameVariant Coushatta ⓘ
Koasati ⓘ
partOf Southeastern Ceremonial Complex ⓘ
primaryLanguage Koasati language ⓘ
religion Christianity ⓘ
traditional tribal religion ⓘ
sovereignStatus federally recognized tribe in the United States (via Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana) ⓘ
subgroupOf Muskogean-speaking peoples ⓘ
traditionalClanSystem yes ⓘ
traditionalEconomy agriculture-based economy ⓘ
traditionalHousing thatched dwellings ⓘ
traditionalPoliticalStructure village-based leadership ⓘ
traditionalSubsistence fishing ⓘ
gathering wild foods ⓘ
hunting ⓘ
maize agriculture ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana → hasPeople → Koasati people ⓘ
Busk → associatedWith → Koasati people ⓘ
Alibamu → closelyRelatedTo → Koasati people ⓘ
Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas → hasEthnicGroup → Koasati people ⓘ
subject linked to: Alabama-Coushatta