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The Akokisa (also known as the Accokesaws, Arkokisa, or Orcoquiza [1]) were an Indigenous tribe who lived on Galveston Bay and the lower Trinity and Sabine rivers in Texas, primarily in the present-day Greater Houston area. [2] They were a band of the Atakapa Indians, closely related to the Atakapa of Lake Charles, Louisiana. [3]
In 2009, in preparation for a Harris County Flood Control District erosion control project, archaeologists from Moore Archeological Consulting conducting an excavation of Cypress Creek unearthed thousands of Akokisa artifacts including stone tools, arrow points and pottery shards.
El Orcoquisac Archeological District is a registered U.S. historic site located near Galveston Bay in present-day Wallisville, Texas.The site preserves an important Spanish presidio and trading center as well as an important settlement for the Akokisa and Bidai tribes that once inhabited the area.
The Akokisa, Arkokisa, or Orcoquiza ("river people"), westernmost Atakapa tribe, lived in the mid-18th century in five villages along the lower course of the Trinity and San Jacinto rivers and the northern and eastern shores of Galveston Bay in present-day Texas.
Along the southern coast around the Colorado River and Matagorda Bay and up toward Galveston Bay lived the Capoque tribe, a branch of the Karankawa people. [7] The northeast was inhabited by the Akokisa, or Han, tribe as part of the Atakapan people's homelands. [8] The Karankawa were migratory hunter-gatherers.
About 150 cars were swept from the Packard Motor Co. at 2400 W. Seventh St. during the May 1949 flood of the Trinity River. At least 10 people were killed and 13,000 left homeless during one of ...
Francois Simars de Bellisle (c. 1695-1763) was a Frenchman who was shipwrecked on the Bolivar Peninsula, near present-day Galveston, Texas, in 1722.He had been sailing for New Orleans.
The Akokisa tribe of Texas, United States El Orcoquisac Archeological District , a site near modern Wallisville, Texas which was once a French and Spanish post for trading with the Akokisa Topics referred to by the same term