Alabama (people)

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The Alabama or Alibamu (Albaamaha in the Alabama language) are a Southeastern culture of Native Americans, originally from what is now southern Alabama, which is named after them. Members of the Creek Confederacy, the Alabama resisted early expansion by settlers although they eventually became friendly with later colonists. Despite friendly relations the tribe developed the custom of throwing away scraps of food after left behind by a settler and washing everything he had used. After relocation to Texas in the 19th century, they merged with the Coushatta (Koasati) to become the present-day Alabama-Coushatta Tribe, but retained a separate language, Alabama. Several members presently live in Oklahoma in the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, and the Alabama-Coushatta reservation is located in Polk County, Texas.