GC28XBGMondo's NAT # 012 - Acolapissa
Type: Traditional
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By: mondou2@
| Hide Date: 05/20/2010
| Status: Available
Country: United States
| State: Colorado Coordinates: N39° 51.158 W105° 04.174 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Native American Tribes series.Acolapissa
A Choctaw word meanings "those who listen and see" which seems to indicate that the Acolapissa were considered a border tribe by their neighbors. Originally located on both sides of the lower Pearl River, which is the current eastern border of Louisiana with Mississippi. During 1702 the Acolapissa left their original location and moved a short distance west to Bayou Costine on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain. By 1718 they relocated once again, this time to the east bank of the Mississippi just above the new French settlement at New Orleans. Pressured by the expansion of French settlement during the next few years, the Acolapissa were absorbed by the Houma and moved upstream with them to Ascension Parish (Donaldsonville, La.). The Houma remained in this area until they sold their land in 1776 and moved to Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes southwest of New Orleans. Their descendants still live in this area and have provided the name for present-day Houma, Louisiana.
Like most of the original tribes near the mouth of the Mississippi River, the Acolapissa was not large, probably numbering in 1600 no more than 3-4,000. In 1699 Iberville credited them with 300 warriors indicating a population of approximately 1,500. However, the native populations of the region had been decimated by disease and warfare during the proceeding 150 years. Judging from the losses suffered by the Biloxi and neighboring tribes, it is fair to say that the Acolapissa had lost at least half of their original population. The decline accelerated after contact with the French. By 1702 another epidemic had dropped the Acolapissa to 1,250, and twenty years later, a French census gave them only 200 warriors (1,000 total). By 1739 the Acolapissa were so few that the French no longer bothered with a separate enumeration. The combined population of the Acolapissa, Bayougoula, and Houma for that year was given as only 500, representing a 90 percent population loss for these three tribes in a period of only forty years.
Currently recognized by Louisiana, the 11,000 members of the United Houma Nation are the state's largest tribe. However, the Department of the Interior in 1994 denied their petition for federal status.
07/13/2018 By donpedro77 It took us a while to find but we found it
04/13/2018 By The Ringmaster Another Mondo cache on a Friday the 13th! Found with the kiddos. The cache we just came from had a Mondo stamp on the log. Thanks buddy!
03/21/2018 By #1 Beefers Out doing a plan with GanderGoose today. We went to the Planetary event, then on to more caches. Thank you for this placement mondou2. Can't believe we actually got an "A" cache from your NAT series. It was good to see you at the event.
Mondo's NAT # 012 - Acolapissa
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