# Capinan

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{{Short description|Historical Indigenous tribe from Alabama and Mississippi, U.S.}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = Capinan
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| total            = extinct as a tribe
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| regions          = United States ([Alabama](/source/Alabama), [Mississippi](/source/Mississippi))
| languages        = [unattested](/source/unattested), possibly a [Siouan language](/source/Siouan_language)<ref name="Ricky2000"/>
| religions        = [Indigenous religion](/source/Indigenous_religion)
| related_groups   = possibly [Pascagoula](/source/Pascagoula) and [Biloxi](/source/Biloxi_people)<ref name="Ricky2000"/>
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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](/source/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Southeastern_Woodlands) people from [Alabama](/source/Alabama) and [Mississippi](/source/Mississippi).<ref name="Ricky2000"/> 

The Capinan lived along the [Gulf Coast](/source/Gulf_Coast_of_the_United_States) region along the [Pascagoula River](/source/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](/source/Chickasaws) in maps drawn by French cartographer [Guillaume Delisle](/source/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](/source/Pascagoula) and [Biloxi](/source/Biloxi_people), both historically from Mississippi. The Capinan's language is unattested, but they might have spoken a [Siouan language](/source/Siouan_language)<ref name="Ricky2000"/> like the Biloxi.

French explorer [Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville](/source/Pierre_Le_Moyne_d'Iberville) visited the tribe in 1699, and [Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Le_Moyne%2C_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

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