Taliepacana

Taliepacana was one of the Indigenous towns recorded in the Alabama interior by the chroniclers of Hernando de Soto's expedition. It lay in the country of the Black Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, among communities connected to the Mississippian world of mound centres and farming settlements. The Spaniards reached the area after the destructive battle at Mabila in 1540. In later generations, people from several communities of this region became part of the Alabama people, who moved east toward the upper Alabama River.