SWANTON] INDIAN TRIBES OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY 335 



This would indicate tliat the tribe had forincrly lived farther 

 north, in the neighborhood of the Chickasaw, and the fact is satis- 

 factorily established by statements of Toiiti, (^oxe, and Iberville. In 

 his Account of the Koute from the Illinois by the River Mississippi to 

 the Gulf of Mexico the lirst-named author says, "The Tonica 

 [Tunica], Yazou, Coroa, and Chonipie are, one with the other, about 

 10 leagues from the Mississippi, on the river of the Yazou; the Sioux 

 [Tioux] 15 leagues above."" Coxe, who professes to give a list of 

 the Yazoo tribes in the order in which they were settled, places the 

 " Tihiou " above the Yazoo, Tunica, and Koroa and below the " Sam- 

 boukia '' and Ibitoupa.^ P'inally, Iberville in 1G99 was told of a tribe 

 called Thysia, which, if the names in the list in which it occurs are in 

 regular order, would have been that farthest up the Yazoo.'' This 

 agrees with the name of no known tribe unless it be the one under 

 discussion, of which it might well be a misprint. The mention of a 

 Natchez village called Tougoulas ("Tou people") at the same time 

 and by the same authority is proof, however, that part of the nation 

 had already removed.** Gatschet suggests its identity with the vil- 

 lage given as Thoucoue and gives Tougoulas a different interpreta- 

 tion,'' but the present writer does not believe his position well taken, 

 although Thoucoue may possibly have been a second Tioux village. 

 An interesting question presents itself in connection with the emi- 

 gration of this tribe from their earlier seats as to whether part of 

 these people were not perhaps identical with those Koroa encountered 

 by La Salle and Tonti 8 or 10 leagues below the Natchez, but who 

 afterward unaccountably disappear from history. '^ In the La Salle 

 narratives they are indeed never called anything else but Koroa, while 

 in later times they are always designated as Tioux. Yet there is evi- 

 dence, as Ave have seen, that the languages of the two were related, 

 and, furthermore, in a map dating from 1764 an '"• antient village 

 of the Tioux "' is located at about the point where the Koroa town 

 formerly stood — i. e., near Fort Adams, Miss.^ Combined with the 

 friendly relations existing between the Koroa and the Natchez in 

 La Salle's time and the subsequent disappearance of this particuhir 

 branch of the Koroa we have an interesting though by no means 

 complete body of circumstantial evidence pointing toward such an 

 identification. 



In May, 1700, when the Bayogoula tribe destroyed their fellow- 

 townsmen, the Mugulasha, Iberville states that they " called to fill 

 their places many families of Colapissa and Tioux, Avho had taken 

 possession of their fields and cabins." '' AVhat became of these Tioux 



« Fronch, Hist. Coll. La.. 82-8.3, 1846. <" Creek Mig. Leg., i, .37. 



"Ibid., 227, 1850. A See pp. 326-328. 



« Margry, Decouvertes, iv, 180. » .Teffery, Amer. Atlas, map 27. 1776. 



<« Ibid., 179. " Margi-y, Decouvertes. iv, 429. 



