Fourche Maline culture

Map of the Fourche Maline, Mill Creek, Marksville, and Mossy Grove cultures

The Fourche Maline culture (pronounced foosh-ma-lean)[a] was a Woodland Period Native American culture that existed from 300 BCE to 800 CE,[2] in what are now defined as southeastern Oklahoma, southwestern Arkansas, northwestern Louisiana, and northeastern Texas. They are considered to be one of the main ancestral groups of the Caddoan Mississippian culture, along with the contemporaneous Mill Creek culture of eastern Texas.[3] This culture was named for the Fourche Maline Creek, a tributary of the Poteau River.[b] Their modern descendants are the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma.

  1. ^ Wright, Muriel. "Some Geographic Names of French Origin in Oklahoma." Chronicles of Oklahoma. Vol. 7, No. 2, June 1929. Archived 2017-02-02 at the Wayback Machine Accessed November 14, 2016.
  2. ^ "The McCutcheon-McLaughlin Site." Oklahoma Archeological Survey. November 15, 2016.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference TejasWoodland was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Fourche Maline Fishing near Wister, Oklahoma." Hook and Bullet. Accessed November 15, 2016.


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