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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]
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.
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.
Arkikosa was likely a corruption or misspelling of the word Akokisa. In the vernacular of another tribe, the Atakapa who settled in the Gulf Coast woodlands, Akokisa means “river people.” ...
During the early 18th Century, French traders first began trade with the Akokisa and the nearby Bidai tribes for furs. [16] In 1754 several traders including Joseph Blancpain established a trading post on the Trinity River a just north of the bay, near modern Wallisville. Spanish authorities quickly seized the post and transformed it into the ...
Many tribes in Texas, such as the Karankawan, Akokisa, Bidai and others, were destroyed by disease and conflicts with settlers. [69] The Akokisas may have been absorbed into other tribes at the wake of the Texas Revolution, [70] while members of the Bidai joined neighboring tribes after epidemics reduced their numbers by over half. [71]
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
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