JUNE  21:

 June 21, 1674: Chatot Indians have a mission established for them today west of the Apalachicola River.
 

BACKGROUND:
 

From http://seminolewar.freeservers.com/counties/c1howaby.html
 

The Choctawhatchee River was inhabited by early Floridians for thousands of years before the Spanish arrived. The Spanish mentioned Chatot or Chacato Indians who lived in the area. At first the Chatot resisted Spanish influence, but later many converted and settled around the Spanish mission at San Luis, south of Tallahassee. They were driven away or captured as slaves during English raids between 1695 to 1705. It is said that the Chatot were related to the Choctaws. After English South Carolina Governor Moore's raids around 1700, the Chatot moved to Mobile, and then to eastern Texas or Oklahoma.
 

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From http://www.choctawindian.com/
 

The Choctaw Indian Nation, a Muskogean tribe also known as Chakchiuma, or Chatot, traces its roots to the Mississippi Valley and some parts of Alabama.
 

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From http://www.hiddenhistory.com/PAGE3/swsts/florida1.htm
 

Chatot. Meaning unknown, but the forms of this word greatly resemble the synonyms of the name Choctaw.

Connections.-The language spoken by this tribe belonged, undoubtedly, to the southern division of the Muskhogean stock.

Location.-West of Apalachicola River, perhaps near the middle course of the Chipola. (See also Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana).

Villages:

From the names of two Spanish missions among them it would appear that there were at least two towns in early times, one called Chacato, after the name of the tribe, and the other Tolentino.

History.-The Chatot are first mentioned in a Spanish document of 1639 in which the governor of Florida congratulates himself on having consummated peace between the Chatot, Apalachicola, and Yamasee on one side and the Apalachee on the other. This, he says, "is an extraordinary thing, because the aforesaid Chacatos never maintained peace with anybody." In 1674 the two missions noted above were established among these people, but the following year the natives rebelled. The disturbance was soon ended by the Spanish officer Florencia, and the Chatot presently settled near the Apalachee town of San Luis, mission work among them being resumed. In 1695, or shortly before, Lower Creek Indians attacked this mission, plundered the church, and carried away 42 Christianized natives. In 1706 or 1707, following on the destruction of the Apalachee towns, the Chatot and several other small tribes living near it were attacked and scattered or carried off captive, and the Chatot fled to Mobile, where they were well received by Bienville and located on the site of the present city of Mobile. When Bienville afterward moved the seat of his government to this place he assigned to them land on Dog River by way of compensation. After Mobile was ceded to the English in 1763 the Chatot, along with a number of other small tribes near Hak City, moved to Louisiana. They appear to have settled first on Bayou Boeuf and later on Sabine River. Nothing is heard of them afterward though in 1924 some old Choctaw remembered their former presence on the Sabine. The remnant may have found their way to Oklahoma.