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Sweet Home Alabama: Evidence of an 18th Century Native American Village at the Chatsworth Plantation Site (16EBR192) in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana (2018)
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After the Seven Years War in 1763, French aligned Alabama Indians found their eponymous homeland jeopardized by conflicts with Native American neighbors. Over the next few years, groups of Alabama sought refuge in what is now Louisiana. In the early 1770s, one Alabama group moved to the east bank of the Mississippi River near Bayou Manchac in what was then British West Florida. Now an insignificant waterway, Manchac was an international boundary between the British and Spanish in the 18th...