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The Atapaka Ishak Nation, officially named the Atakapa Ishak Tribe of Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana, [1] is a cultural heritage organization of individuals who identify as descendants of the Atakapa people. The Atakapa Ishak Nation is an unrecognized organization. Despite using the word nation in its name, the group is neither a ...
Another group, the Atakapa Ishak Tribe of Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana, also called the Atakapa Ishak Nation, [35] based in Lake Charles, Louisiana obtained nonprofit status in 2008 as an "ethnic awareness" organization. [36] They also refer to themselves as the Atakapa-Ishak Nation and met en masse on October 28, 2006. [37]
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]
The coastal village is home to the Atakapa Ishak Chawasha tribe and is only accessible by water. It is primarily self-sustaining and relies heavily on fishing. [3] The village's population was around 1,000 in the 1940s. [1] Since then, coastal erosion and disasters such as Hurricane Katrina have drastically impacted the settlement.
Atakapa (/ ə ˈ t æ k ə p ə,-p ɑː /, [1] [2] natively Ishakkoy [3]) is an extinct language isolate native to southwestern Louisiana and nearby coastal eastern Texas. It was spoken by the Atakapa people (also known as Ishak , after their word for "the people").
The Atakapa-Ishak speaking people were largely decimated by European diseases in the late eighteenth century, with only a few descendants surviving today. About the same time as the collapse of the Atakapa-Ishak people, the Alabama-Coushatta , originally two closely associated tribes living in adjacent areas of Alabama, began a westward ...
Locations of American Indian tribes in Texas, ca. 1500 CE. Native American tribes in Texas are the Native American tribes who are currently based in Texas and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas who historically lived in Texas. Many individual Native Americans, whose tribes are headquartered in other states, reside in Texas.
Absentee Seminole Tribe of Texas, [170] American Cherokee Tribe of Texas [23] Apache Council of Texas, [171] Alice, TX [172] The Arista Indian Village. Letter of Intent to Petition 05/21/2002 [25] Receipt of Petition 05/21/2002 [34] Atakapas Ishak Nation of Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana. Letter of Intent to Petition 02/02/2007 [25]