306 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 43 



Morse, in his statistical tables of 1822, gives three bodies of Pas- 

 cagoLila Indians, one numbering 80, on Ked river, 100 miles from its 

 month and close to the Apalachee; a second of OO 2)crsons, lOO miles 

 higher up; and a third of 100 on Biloxi bayou, la miles above its 

 junction with the Xeches." In 1829, 111 Pascagoula are reported 

 living Avith 05 Biloxi in eastern Texas on Red river.'' For their later 

 history see pages 31-32. They now api:)ear to be entirely extinct, but 

 a group of Biloxi, their close comiDanions, is shown in plate 12, b. 



The JNIoctobi 



This tribe is scarcely referred to later than Iberville's first expedi- 

 tion, and there is some reason to think, since individuals belonging 

 to it make their first aj^pearance in company Avith the Biloxi, that 

 the name may have been that by which the Pascagoula were knoAvn to 

 their neighbors. At any rate they must have been a very small 

 group. In some places they are called Capinans, and Capinans Avas 

 the name of a plantation or small settlement in their neighl)orhood. 

 References to them occur in Margry, Decouvertes, iv, 154, 155, 193, 

 195, 311, 451, 002 ; v, 378, 547. 



The Mobile Bay and Apalachicola River Tribes 



These have been enumerated, so far as it is now possible to do so, 

 in the first part of this paper, and their linguistic affinities have been 

 carefully inquired into,'' Their history, however, is interwoven with 

 the histories of the Apalache and the Creeks and requires a study of 

 those peoples to bring out its full significance; therefore it will be 

 well to postpone it until a later occasion. 



THE TUNICAN GROUP 

 The Tunica 



The name of this tribe signifies simply " men " or " people " in 

 their language, but they prefer to call themselves as a nation by 

 another term, Yoron. They are perhaps referred to as the town of 

 " Tanico "' of the Elvas De Soto narrative,'* encountered somcAvhere 

 in northeastern Louisiana or southeastern Arkansas, Avhere the In- 

 dians mad(? salt. This is considerably north of their location in 1082. 

 but ChickasaAv and Choctaw tradition places " Tunica oldfields " on 

 the Mississippi riA^er near Friar point, not many miles beloAv the 



■" Morse, Rep. on Indian Affairs, 373. 



'' Porter in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, 596. 



' See pp. 32-33. 



"Bourne, Narr. of De Soto, i, 135, 1901. Cf., however, p. 307. 



