The Capinan (also called Capina[2]) were a small tribe of Native American people from Alabama and Mississippi.
[1] The Capinan lived along the Gulf Coast region along the Pascagoula River[1] [3] almost north to its headwaters.
They appear along the Pascagoula River, directly south of the Chickasaws in maps drawn by French cartographer Guillaume Delisle in 1703 and 1707.
[4] The Capinan may have been the same tribe as the Moctobi[4] and may have been a sub-tribe of the Pascagoula and Biloxi, both historically from Mississippi.
French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville visited the tribe in 1699, and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville in 1725.