While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Moctobi. A
small tribe formerly residing in south Mississippi. They are mentioned by
Iberville, in 1699, as living at that time on Pascagoula river, near the
Gulf coast, associated with the Biloxi
and Paskagula, each tribe having its own village (Margry, Dec., iv, 195,
1880). Sauvole, who was at Ft Biloxi in 1699-1700, speaks of the "villages
of the Pascoboulas, Biloxi, and Moctohi, which together contain not more
than 20 cabins." Nothing is known respecting their language, nor has
anything more been ascertained in regard to their history, but front their
intimate relations with the Biloxi it is probable they belonged to the
same (Siouan) linguistic stock.
The name Moctobi appears to have disappeared from Indian memory and
tradition, as repeated inquiry among the
Choctaw and Caddo has tailed to
elicit any knowledge of such a tribe. What seems to be a justifiable
supposition, in the absence of further knowledge, is that the three or
four small bands where the remnants of a larger tribe or of tribes which,
while making their way south ward, and been reduced by war, pestilence, or
other calamity, and had been compelled to consolidate and take refuge
under the Choctaw.
Consult Mooney, Siouan Tribes of the
East, Bull. B.A.E. 1894)
