After years of isolation and poverty, Alabama ... to prove Native American ancestry; it requires that petitioners be able to trace their lineage to the Indians of the early 19th century through ...

(AP) — At the height of Muscogee power, thousands of people filled the tribe’s sprawling ... who called the land home and ...

The Choctaw were in Alabama when De Soto led his exploration into the Gulf region in the early 1540s and when the French arrived ... They were eventually joined by refugees from other Indian tribes, ...