Kaskinampo

The Kaskinampo lived in the lower Tennessee and Cumberland river country, where broad bottomlands and river islands gave good ground for corn and beans. French accounts of the early eighteenth century placed an earlier home on the Cumberland, and around 1701 the people appear on an island in the Tennessee. Both rivers carried forms of their name, and the Tennessee kept the name long after the people had moved. After the early eighteenth century the Kaskinampo no longer appear as a separate community; they merged with the Koasati and other Muskogean-speaking groups who travelled the river routes between the Mississippi and the southern Appalachians.