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Acolapissa 'population. — In 1699 Bienville gave the number of 

 Acolapissa warriors as about 150, but La Harpe places it at 300. 

 Iberville's census of families made in 1702 assigns 250 to this tribe, 

 and Charlevoix in 1722 says there were 200 warriors. In 1739 the 

 Acolapissa, Bayogoula, and Houma together were reported to have 

 90-100 warriors and a total population of 270-300. After that all are 

 called Houma. Mooney's estimate of this tribe as of the year 1650 

 is 1,600, including the Tangipahoa, and is, if anything, somewhat too 

 high The mixed-blood group still bearing the Houma name locally 

 evidently formed the bulk of the 1,089 Indian population of Louisiana 

 according to the census of 1930, whose tribal affiliations were not re- 

 ported, since 899 of them were in Terrebonne Parish. 



ACDERA 



A Timucua tribe probably located along the upper course of Ockla- 

 waha River, Fla. It appears first in the De Soto narratives, and 

 Garcilaso de la Vega identifies it with the province of Ocale where the 

 Spaniards sojourned for a month in the summer of 1539, but Ranjel, 

 who may usually be relied upon, speaks of it as a province to which 

 they sent for corn while they were staying at Ocale, and Gallegos 

 reported to De Soto that Acuera and Ocale were 2 days' journey apart. 

 After the Spaniards settled in Florida permanently, we hear of an 

 encounter between Acuera Indians and members of an expedition sent 

 from Havana in 1604. The Governor of Florida had some difficulty 

 in overcoming the effects of this, but by 1655 two missions, San Luis 

 and Santa Lucia, had been established in the Acuera country. As 

 we do not hear of these again, it may be assumed that they were given 

 up in consequence of the Timucua rebellion in 1656. 



Acuera population. — No figures seem to have come down to us. 



Adai 



A Caddo tribe living when first discovered by Europeans near the 

 present site of Robeline, La. There were Adai Indians at the Fran- 

 ciscan Mission of San Francisco de los Tejas, the first in eastern 

 Texas, founded by Capt. Alonso de Leon and Father Damian Massanet 

 in June 1690. In 1699 Iberville seems to have been given the name 

 of this tribe under the form Natao. In 1717 the Mission of San 

 Miguel de Linares was established among them. Two years later 

 it was destroyed by the French, with Natchitoches and Caddo allies, 

 but rebuilt in 1721, and near it was located the Presidio of Nuestra 

 Seiiora del Pilar de los Adaes. For 50 years this was the capital 

 of Texas, but presidio and mission were both abandoned in 1773. In 

 1778 Mezieres states that the tribe was almost extinct, but Sibley re- 

 ported in 1805 that there was a small settlement on Lake Macdon 



