Tohome

The Tohome were a people of the river country north of Mobile Bay, closely associated with their Mobile neighbours. When the French established Mobile in 1702, the communities around the bay had suffered raids by larger groups from the interior. That year Alabama chiefs asked the French leader Bienville whether they should continue fighting the Tohome and Mobile; he urged peace. The Tohome remained connected to the French settlement, where their history became intertwined with that of the neighbouring Mobile people.