Albaamo

The Albaamo, better known as the Alabama or Alibamu, are a Muskogean people of the Southeastern Woodlands whose towns lay on the upper Alabama River within the Muscogee Creek Confederacy, and whose language is closest to Koasati.

Hernando de Soto's expedition crossed their country in 1540, and in the eighteenth century the French built a fort at what became Mobile. Their towns followed the Creek division into red towns for warfare and white towns for peace.

After the French ceded the Gulf coast to Britain following the Seven Years' War, British settlement and pressure from the Choctaw made the Alabama among the first Creek peoples to leave: they drifted west through Louisiana, and in 1805 nearly a thousand Alabama reached the Big Thicket of eastern Texas, where by 1820 they held three main towns beside their Coushatta allies.