Infotopia Presents: Texas Indians-The Alabama Coushatta

The moiety of these two tribes have a great shared history between Alabama and Texas.

The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas calls its reservation home in Southeast Texas located 17 miles east of Livingston in Polk County Texas. Although recognized as two separate tribes, the Alabamas and Coushattas have been closely associated throughout their history. Both of Muscogean language stock, they lived in adjacent areas in the present state of Alabama, followed similar migration routes westward after 1763, and settled in the same area of Southeast Texas.

Culturally, these two Tribes have always been one people, in spite of minor differences. Their languages are mutually understandable, although some differences occur in individual words. The closest tie has been that of blood, as intermarriage has been the rule since earliest times.

Prior to 1859, Alabamas and Coushattas established and occupied several prominent villages in the present counties of Polk, Tyler, and San Jacinto. In 1854, the Alabamas received a grant of 1,110.7 acres of land in Polk County for a reservation. Since a grant of land for the Coushattas was never patented, State Agent James Barclay wrote that in 1859 the Coushattas, with the permission of the Alabamas, began moving onto the Alabama’s Polk County reservation.

http://alabama-coushatta.com/chief-history.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama%E2%80%93Coushatta_Tribe_of_Texas

Word of the Day : April 6, 2019

moiety

noun MOY-uh-tee

Definition :

1 a : one of two equal parts : half.

b : one of two approximately equal parts.

2 : one of the portions into which something is divided : component, part.

3 : one of two basic complementary tribal subdivisions.

Did You Know ?


Moiety is one of thousands of words that English speakers borrowed from French. The Anglo-French moité (meaning "a half" or "part of something") comes from Late Latin medietat-, meaning "a half." Around the same time that moiety was borrowed from Anglo-French, medietat- was also borrowed directly from Latin as mediety, a word which can also mean "a half." Medietat- comes from Latin medius (meaning "middle"), which has contributed to such English words as medium, meridian, and milieu.

Examples .

"They came from the sea—these members of the Eagle moiety—paddling their ceremonial canoes, singing traditional songs. Waiting on the shore were members of the Raven moiety, counterparts to the Eagles in the traditional world of the Haida Indians." — Doug O'Harra, The Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, 15 Sep. 1996.

"Most of the glucose in the body goes directly into cells where it's modified to produce the energy source ATP. However about 5 percent of all glucose is converted to another sugar moiety, O-GlcNAc, one of the sugar types that can modify proteins." — ScienceDaily.com, 12 May 2009.