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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.
Historical sketches of the several Indian tribes in Louisiana, south of the Arkansas River, and between the Mississippi and River Grand [5 April 1805]. In T. Jefferson (Ed.), Message from the President of the United States communicating the discoveries made in exploring the Missouri, Red River, and Washita (p. 48–62).
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.
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").
Pages in category "Atakapa" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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.
The Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town in Wetumka, Oklahoma, achieved federal recognition in 1939, following passage of the 1936 Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act. Its people were descendants of a community that had moved as a group from their town in Alabama to Indian Territory in the 1830s. They settled together and maintained their tribal town identity.
Sapir's classification (or something derivative) is still commonly used in general languages-of-the-world type surveys. (Note that the question marks that appear in Sapir's list below are present in the original article.) "Proposed Classification of American Indian Languages North of Mexico (and Certain Languages of Mexico and Central America)"