Blewmouth Tribe

Blewmouth Indians, Blewmouths. Mentioned in a Georgia tract of 1740 1 apparently as a tribe west of the Choctaw. “According to the French Indians [Choctaw] there is a large city where a blue-lipped people live, of whom they have often heard it said that if any one tries to kill them he becomes insane” 2 Nothing further is known of them.


Citations:

  1. Force Tracts, I, 3, 1836[]
  2. Brinton, Nat, Leg. Chahta-Muskokee Tribes, 10, 1870.[]

Collection:
Hodge, Frederick Webb, Compiler. The Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Bureau of American Ethnology, Government Printing Office. 1906.

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