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  2. 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]

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Atakapa language - Wikipedia

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    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").

  6. History of Lafayette, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    By 1812, the Attakapas Country was split into the St. Martin parish and the St. Mary parish. The original village which would become Lafayette, was laid out by Jean Mouton and his surveyor, John Dinsmore, Jr. in 1821 and was given the name "St. Jean du Vermilionville". [3] Later, the name would be shortened to "Vermilionville".

  7. History of Lake Charles, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Before European colonisation, the Lake Charles area was home to the Native American Atakapa Ishak tribe. [1] The first European colonizers arrived in the 1760s.. The Calcasieu River Bridge as seen from downtown Lake Charles.

  8. Atakapa Ishak Nation - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Attakapas County, Orleans Territory - Wikipedia

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    Map of Orleans Territory in 1804; Attakapas Parish is in the south Attakapas Parish , a former parish ( county ) in southern Louisiana, was one of the twelve parishes in the Territory of Orleans , newly defined by the United States federal government following its Louisiana Purchase in 1803.