Coosha

It was a member of the larger community known commonly as the "Coosha towns," which made up part of the Eastern division of the Choctaw Nation in pre-colonial America.

The village, which has been abandoned since the mid-nineteenth century, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1978.

The reeds were so tall that the native Choctaw were able to and often would hide horses stolen from plantations by white thieves, prompting a creek nearby Coosha to be named "Issuba in Kannia bok" (English: "Lost Horse Creek").

"[6] On John R. Swanton's 1931 map included in his book Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians, the town's name is spelled "Kunshak."

According to Patricia Galloway, the Choctaw region of Mississippi was slowly occupied by Burial Urn people from the Bottle Creek Indian Mounds area in the Mobile, Alabama delta, along with remnants of people from the Moundville chiefdom (near present-day Tuscaloosa, Alabama), which had collapsed in the mid-14th century.

[3] The village was home to orchards of peaches and plums and contained fauna such as bear, deer, turkey, squirrels, and wild cats.

[3] Perhaps the most notable person to be associated with the village is the chief Pushmataha, who served as mingo of the Coosha towns for a short period.