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The Alabama-Coushattas are actually two tribes that combined to live togetheronce they got to Texas. They are both from the Southeast-Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. They were so closely linked, they were part of the same culture, the Southeastern Mound Building cultures. They were forced west by settlers that wanted land. The De Soto expedition found the Alabamas in cenral Mississippi and proceded to attack and kill many of them which forced them to Alabama. Later they had to move to Louisiana because the Americans wanted to live in Alabama. Then they moved to Texas. DeSoto also found the Coushattas by the Tennesse River. The Alabama-Coushattas settled along the Trinity River, but later some of them moved to the Big Thicket area. The Big Thicket area is in the Piney Woods subregion of the Coastal Plains region of Texas. In the Piney Woods, the climate is cool winters and warm summers.