Capinan

{{Short description|Historical Indigenous tribe from Alabama and Mississippi, U.S.}} {{Infobox ethnic group | 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<ref name="Ricky2000"/> | religions = Indigenous religion | related_groups = possibly Pascagoula and Biloxi<ref name="Ricky2000"/> }} The '''Capinan''' (also called '''Capina'''<ref name="Clark2009">{{cite book|author=Patricia Roberts Clark |title=Tribal Names of the Americas: Spelling Variants and Alternative Forms, Cross-Referenced |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mpRrp_PJnFIC&pg=PA43 |accessdate=18 November 2012 |date=31 July 2009 |publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-3833-4|page=43}}</ref>) were a small tribe of Native American people from Alabama and Mississippi.<ref name="Ricky2000"/>

The Capinan lived along the Gulf Coast region along the Pascagoula River<ref name="Ricky2000"/><ref name=MAT>{{cite web |title=Indian Tribes of Mississippi |url=http://trails.mdah.ms.gov/tribes.htm |work=Mississippi Archeology Trails |publisher=Mississippi Department of Archives & History |accessdate=18 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325055336/http://trails.mdah.ms.gov/tribes.htm |archivedate=25 March 2012 }}</ref> 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.<ref name=hodge/>

The Capinan may have been the same tribe as the Moctobi<ref name=hodge>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Fp6eAwAAQBAJ Hodge, p. 203]</ref> 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<ref name="Ricky2000"/> 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.<ref name=MAT/><ref name="Ricky2000">{{cite book|author=Donald B. Ricky|title=Encyclopedia of Mississippi Indians: Tribes, Natives, Treaties of the Southeastern Woodlands Area|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nca4e2mZzWgC|accessdate=18 November 2012|year=2000|publisher=North American Book Dist LLC|isbn=978-0-403-09778-4|page=56}}</ref>

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Category:Extinct Native American tribes Category:Native American tribes in Alabama Category:Native American tribes in Mississippi Category:Pre-statehood history of Mississippi