Definition of Koasati

1. Noun. A member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Alabama; a member of the Creek Confederacy.

Generic synonyms: Muskhogean, Muskogean

2. Noun. The Muskhogean language spoken by the Koasati.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Koasati

Knossos
Know-Nothing
Know-Nothing Party
Know-Nothingism
Knowledge Interchange Format
Knowlton's cactus
Knox
Knoxville
Knuckles
Knudsen flow
Knudsen flows
Knut
Knut Hamsun
Knut Pedersen
Koasati (current term)
Kobarid
Kobashigawa
Kobe
Kobelt's tubules
Kobenhavn
Kober test
Koblenz
Kobner's phenomenon
Koboti
Kobotion
Kobuk Valley National Park
Kobus
Kobus kob
Kobus leche

Literary usage of Koasati

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 2/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"During the middle and latter part of the 18th century the Koasati lived, ... Florida was ceded to Great Britain, in 1763, "two villages of Koasati" moved ..."

2. Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors by John Reed Swanton (1922)
"THE Koasati The Koasati Indians, as shown by their language, are closely related to the Alabama. There were at one tune two branches of this tribe—one close ..."

3. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 1/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"7 distinct languages, viz, Musco- gee, Hitchiti, Koasati, ... The people speaking the cognate Hitchiti and Koasati were contemptuously designated as ..."

4. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North (1918)
"A great many pages of texts were secured from the Koasati. This language, although closely related to Alabama, differs from it more than has been supposed. ..."

5. A History of Oklahoma by Joseph Bradfield Thoburn, Isaac Mason Holcomb (1908)
"... and one branch of the Shawnee, all speaking different languages. The Koasati had absorbed a part of the ancient tribe ..."

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