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The Okelousa ('' Black AVater ") 



There are but two references to this tribe. The first of these is by 

 La Harj)e in the quotation given on page 298, simply to the effect 

 that they were allied with the Washa and Chawasha. The second is 

 by Du Pratz, and is as follows: 



The Oque-Lonssas form a little nation which is concealed to the west of and 

 above Pointe Coupee, of which the French did not even know thj name. I one 

 day encountered a man of this nation who informed me that they lived on the 

 shores of two little lakes, whose water appeared black on account of the quan- 

 tity of leaves which cover the bottoms of these lakes, from whence they receive 

 the name of Oque-Loussas, which signifies " Black Water." « 



If this tribe was Muskhogean, as the writer supposes, it probably 

 united with some better-known tribe of the lower Mississippi, such 

 as the Houma or the Acolapissa. 



The Pascagoula (" Bread People ") 



This small tribe was heard of by Iberville in 1699 at the same time 

 as the Biloxi,^ but he did not visit the Pascagoula village until his 

 second expedition. Sauvolle, however, who had been left in charge 

 of the new post at Biloxi, sent Bienville thither some time in the 

 summer of 1699. If we were to judge from his own letter this was 

 late in June. On their return the explorers reported to him that 

 " the villages of the Pascoboulas, Biloxi, and Moctobi " were 16 

 leagues inland on Pascagoula ri^^er and that they did not number 20 

 cabins in all.^ " The 13th [of July]," he notes— 



the chief of the Pascoboulas came to sing the peace calumet to us. He had in 

 his following seven men of the same nation. I have never seen savages less 

 embarrassed. They embraced us, a thing I have never seen the others do. 

 They only pass the hand over the breast on their arrival, after having raised 

 their arms to heaven. They brought me a present of deer skins, which I at 

 once gave to our hunters in order to make Indian shoes (i. e., moccasins), 

 a little dried meat, and part of a deer. They parted after having received 

 their presents, like the others.*^ 



On the 21st four other savages of this nation came,^ and on the 8th 

 of August seven more,*' on errands which were really begging expedi- 

 tions. Of this latter party Sauvolle says : 



There arrived on the 8th a pirogue, in which there were seven savages of the 

 Pascoboula nation, among whom was the chief of this same nation, whose 

 name is Chenoua. They are established on the river of the Mobile. I had 

 it in my instructions to treat these nations kindly if any of them came, and to 

 give them a gun, which I did. They undoubtedly go to visit the Spaniards, 

 for this chief had one of their muskets ; besides the gun, I gave him a saber, 

 an embroidered hat, a hooded cloak, a plume, and other presents for his peo- 



<• Du Pratz, Hist, de La Lonisiane, ii, 241, 1758. * Ibid., 45.3. 



^Margry, D&ouvortes, iv, 154, 155, 1880, « Ibid., 454. 



" Ibid, 451, 



