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and La Harpe place them in the same settlement as the Pascagoula 

 some miles farther up. A few years later they were induced by St. 

 Denis to locate on a small bayou between New Orleans and Lake 

 Pontchartrain, and while they were there 15 Biloxi warriors accom- 

 panied him in his Chitimacha expedition, March 1707. Penicaut 

 sets the date of their settlement near New Orleans as 1702-3 and, 

 although his chronology is apt to be unreliable, in this case he cannot 

 be far wrong. In 1722 they settled on Pearl Kiver on the site formerly 

 occupied by the Acolapissa, and between that year and 1730 they 

 seem to have drifted back to the neighborhood of the Pascagoula on 

 Pascagoula Kiver. They lived near the same tribe in this general 

 region until after 1763 when both moved across the Mississippi, the 

 Biloxi settling first, it would seem, near the mouth of Red River where 

 Hutchins locates them in 1784. If they actually were near the mouth 

 of the river, they must soon have moved to the neighborhood of Marks- 

 ville where later writers mention two villages, one of them on a 

 half -section adjoining the Tunica. Soon afterward they sold or 

 abandoned this site and moved to Bayou Rapides and thence to the 

 mouth of the Rigolet de Bon Dieu, from whence they crossed in 

 1794-96 to Bayou Boeuf and established themselves on the south side 

 below a band of Choctaw. The Pascagoula settled still farther down 

 2 years later. Soon after the beginning of the nineteenth century, the 

 two tribes sold their lands to William Miller and Colonel Fulton, but 

 though the sale was confirmed by the United States Government May 5, 

 1805, the Biloxi remained in the immediate neighborhood and grad- 

 ually died out there or fused with the Tunica and Choctaw. A large 

 body of these people, however, if we may trust the figures given by 

 Morse, went to Texas and established themselves on a stream in 

 Angelina County, still called Biloxi Bayou. Among the Alabama In- 

 dians in this neighborhood are a few descended from these; what 

 became of the rest is unknown. In 1829, Biloxi, Pascagoula, and 

 Caddo were said to be living near one another close to the Texas 

 boundary. Part of one or all of these bands emigrated to Oklahoma, 

 where some settled on Kiamichi River, a few near Atoka, and 40 

 years ago I discovered one representative of the tribe living on 

 Canadian River among the Creeks, but still able to recall a few Biloxi 

 words. In the fall of 1886 Dr. A. S. Gatschet, of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, discovered a few Biloxi on Indian Creek, 5 to 6 

 miles west of Lecompte, La., and collected enough words to establish 

 the Siouan connections of their tongue. January 14 to February 21, 

 1892, Dr. J'. O. Dorsey, Siouan specialist in the same Bureau, visited 

 this band and again in February 1893, collecting a considerable amount 

 of material, which was published under my editorship in Bureau of 

 American Ethnology Bulletin 47 (Dorsey and S wanton, 1912). 



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