Biography on acolapissa indian

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Looking back on Native American history in Pearl River County, part 1

Published am Tuesday, July 7,

: Photo by Laurel Thrailkill; These arrowheads are among the Native American artifacts recovered in Pearl River County.

Pearl River County was formed in when parts of Hancock and Marion counties were combined, but some of the first residents of the Pearl River County area left evidence of their existence that dates back to the earliest recognized archaeological periods.
These early people, the “Paleo-Indians,” left behind a spear point found in the eastern edge of central Pearl River County which was used by humans 12, years ago, according to a pamphlet from the Pearl River County Historical Society and the Pearl River Chapter of the Mississippi Archaeological Association titled Recognizing and Rejoicing in our Indian Heritage.
In more recent and well-documented history, a tribe known as the Acolapissa settled along the Pearl River in Pearl River County, said Jerry Stough

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Acolapissa facts for kids

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.

Early history

The Acolapissa had at least six villages. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville claimed that the Tangipahoa settlement was an additional Acolapissan settlement. In , a band of Chickasaw, led by two English slave traders, attacked several Acolapissa villages, intending to take captives as slaves to be sold in Charleston, South Carolina.

Around the Acolapissa moved from Pearl River and settled on a bayou on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain. Shortly afterward, Louis Juchereau de St. Denis sent the Natchitoches tribe to live with the Acolapissa, who welcomed the

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In July, the Tangipahoa probably were watching as sju makeshift boats, carried the battered remnants of dem Soto's army of conquistadors past them to the Gulf of Mexico. For four years, the Spanish had crisscrossed the southeast United States running roughshod over its native peoples, but bygd they were beaten dock. De Soto had died the previous year, and after failing to reach Mexico overland across Texas, his successor, Luis dem Moscoso, returned to the "Great River" (Mississippi) for a gods desperate effort to escape the interior by following it to the Gulf. After building seven boats from local materials, the Spanish headed downstream in May, but their grim reputation had preceded them. Forced to fight his way past the Natchez in southwest Mississippi, Moscoso was in no mood to meet the Tangipahoa, Acolapissa, or any other tribe nedströms who, beneath the circumstances, most likely were also hostile.

However, the Acolapissa and their neighbors did not have to meet the Span