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  2. Atakapa - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Mermentau, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Today, arrow points can be found here and there at the places where the Atakapa Indians once lived. Mermentau is especially known for where Captain James Campbell, pirate Jean Laffite's most trusted lieutenant, stashed $9,000 in gold coins. [4]

  4. Akokisa - Wikipedia

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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]

  5. Grand Bayou, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Opelousa - Wikipedia

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    From American State Papers, a member of the Appalousa and Atakapa region in 1814, said that both tribes had villages on the north and south parts of the bayou. [ 1 ] The Appalousa are referred to as also the Lopelousas and Oqué-Loussas by Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz , an 18th-century French historian and ethnographer, but it is still ...

  7. Atakapa Ishak Nation - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Karankawa people - Wikipedia

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    The Choctaw name for cannibal was "Atakapa" which was the western most band of the Karankawa Texas Indian group. The first person to document the Karankawa's cannibalism was French Jean Baptiste Talon who lived as a captive among the tribe for several years who stated in 1689:

  9. List of place names of Native American origin in the United ...

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    Anoka - A Dakota Indian word meaning "on both sides." Arapahoe; Hyannis - Named after Hyannis, Massachusetts, which was named after Iyannough, a sachem of the Cummaquid tribe. [51] Iowa; Kenesaw; Leshara - Named after Chief Petalesharo. Mankato - Mankota is from the Dakota Indian word Maḳaṭo, meaning "blue earth".