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The modern "Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe" live in Mississippi and east central Louisiana. The modern tribe is composed of Tunica, Biloxi (a Siouan speaking people from the Gulf coast), Ofo (also a Siouan people), Avoyel (a Natchezan people), Mississippi Choctaw (formerly Muskogean speaking), [ 2 ] European and African ancestry. [ 2 ]
The modern tribe is composed of Tunica, Biloxi (a Siouan-speaking people from the Gulf coast), Ofo (also a Siouan people), Avoyel, and Mississippi Choctaw. Many live on the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Reservation in central Avoyelles Parish, just south of the city of Marksville, Louisiana. A part of the city extends onto reservation land.
Location of Tunica-Biloxi Indian Reservation in Louisiana. The Tunica treasure is a group of artifacts from the Tunica-Biloxi tribe discovered in the 1960s. Their discovery led to a protracted legal battle over their ownership, and the eventual passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
The merchants wanted to conduct fur trading with the Tunica Tribe and the missionaries hoped to convert the natives to Christianity. The trading post was built near the Avoyel/Tunica settlement; it was preserved until the mid-1960s. Historic roadside markers on LA 1 identify the site of the historic Catholic mission school.
Tunica-Biloxi Reservation: Louisiana: 121: ... A state designated American Indian reservation is the land area designated by a state for state-recognized American ...
Today, remaining Biloxi descendants have merged with the Tunica and other remnant peoples. Together they were federally recognized in 1981; today they are called the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe and share a small reservation in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. Descendants of several other small tribes are enrolled with them.
The Tunicas were unable to obtain either attention or services. Not until the 1970s did they actively resume their attempts to gain recognition. Toward this end, the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Indians of Louisiana was incorporated on October 26, 1974. The organizers were Joseph Pierite Jr., Horace Pierite Jr., Sam Barbry Jr., and Rose Marie Gallardo.
Chief Sesostrie Youchigant, former chief of the Tunica-Biloxi tribe and last Tunica native speaker, provided information about the Tunica language to researchers. Horace Pierite, former chief of the Tunica-Biloxi tribe. Earl Barbry, an American politician and Native American leader, former chairman of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe.