The Acolapissa were a small tribe of Native Americans of North America, who lived in the Southeast of what is the present-day United States. They lived along the banks of the Pearl River, between present-day Louisiana and Mississippi. They are believed to have spoken a Muskogean language, closely related to the Choctaw and Chickasaw spoken by other Southeast tribes of the Muskogean family.
The Acolapissa were a small tribe of Native Americans of North America, who lived in the Southeast of what is the present-day United States. They lived...
Moyne d'Iberville wrote that in the year 1650 the population of both the Acolapissa and Tangipahoa combined consisted of 250 families and around 150 men....
estimated 40 warriors. By 1739, they settled in between the Houma and Acolapissa. The Tunica tribe moved into the community soon thereafter. In 1706, the...
Bayou Lacombe bands. Though, the Houma people, Bayougoula people, and Acolapissa people, were documented as separate tribes. By 1699–1700, the Houma tribe...
that the Mougoulacha may have been the same tribe as the Quinipissa, Acolapissa, and the Tangipahoa. John Reed Swanton suggests that the Quinipissa merged...
Helena Parish, St. Tammany Parish and Washington Parish. Comes from an Acolapissa word meaning ear of corn or those who gather corn 138,064 823 sq mi (2...
North America (PDF). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 134. Acolapissa History "Sekani Indians of Canada". www.canadiangenealogy.net. Retrieved...
groups were Caddoan and Muskogean, besides a number of language isolates. Acolapissa (Colapissa), Louisiana and Mississippi Ais, eastern coastal Florida Alafay...
populations Louisiana Languages Southern Muskogean language Religion Indigenous religion Related ethnic groups Acolapissa, Okelousa, Quinapissa, Tangipahoa...
below) Tangipahoa River – for the Tangipahoa tribe, closely related to the Acolapissa people; the name is said to refer to those who grind corn. Tensas Parish...
Oklahoma and Wendake, Quebec Most of these no longer exist as tribes. Acolapissa (Colapissa), Louisiana and Mississippi Ais, eastern coastal Florida Alafay...
of the town named for them). The Okelousa in Pointe Coupee parish. The Acolapissa in St. Tammany parish. They were allied with the Tangipahoa in Tangipahoa...
("Blueberry Hill") had lived on the plantation. In the early 1700s, a large Acolapissa village called Tabiscanja, meaning "long river view," was located on high...
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