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The Atakapa language was a language isolate, once spoken along the Louisiana and East Texas coast and believed extinct since the mid-20th century. [9] John R. Swanton in 1919 proposed a Tunican language family that would include Atakapa, Tunica, and Chitimacha.
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 origin story, which they shared with neighboring tribes, describes two forbidden lovers from different tribes, one an elite woman and the other a warrior. The women's father did not approve and followed them to swamplands where they met and killed the warrior.
Tendong Lho Rumfaat: means Prayer of the Tendong Mountain, is a festival of the Lepcha people of north-east India. Thai Pongal: celebrated by Tamilians. Coincides with Makara Sankranthi celebrated throughout India as the winter harvest. Tokhu Emong: a festival in Nagaland celebrated by the Lothas in November. This festival is associated with ...
Over the millennia of its development, Hinduism has adopted several iconic symbols, forming part of Hindu iconography, that are imbued with spiritual meaning based on either the scriptures or cultural traditions. The exact significance accorded to any of the icons varies with region, period and denomination of the followers.
Atakapans and neighboring groups. In R. D. Fogelson (Ed.), Handbook of North American Indians: Southeast (Vol. 14, pp. 659–663). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. Sibley, John. (1806). Historical sketches of the several Indian tribes in Louisiana, south of the Arkansas River, and between the Mississippi and River Grand [5 April 1805].
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The Atakapa Ishak Nation is an unrecognized organization. Despite using the word nation in its name, the group is neither a federally recognized tribe [ 4 ] nor a state-recognized tribe . [ 5 ] Louisiana has 11 state-recognized tribes [ 5 ] but rejected the Atakapa Ishak Nation's application for state recognition.