Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 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.
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 ...
Mermentau is located at (30.187845, -92.582786 [6]According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km 2), of which 2.1 square miles (5.5 km 2) is land and 0.15 square miles (0.4 km 2) (7.39%) is water.
Osawatomie – a compound of two primary Native American Indian tribes from the area, the Osage and Pottawatomie; Tonganoxie – derives its name from a member of the Delaware tribe that once occupied land in what is now Leavenworth County and western Wyandotte County; Topeka – from Kansa dóppikĘ”e, "a good place to dig wild potatoes"
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Pointe-au-Chien Tribe is a state-recognized Native American Tribe, located in Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes, Louisiana.Pointe-au-Chien Tribe claim to be descendants of the Chitimacha; they also believe themselves to be descendants of other historical tribes located in the region, notably the Acolapissa, Atakapas, coastal Choctaw and Biloxi Indians.