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below the Natchez, and were probably the Indians called Koroa 

 by La Salle's chroniclers, who were evidently distinct from the Koroa 

 they mention on and near Yazoo River. Afterward they moved in 

 near the Natchez towns and remained a constituent part of the 

 Natchez tribe during the rest of their existence. In May 1700, after 

 the Bayogoula had destroyed their fellow townsmen, the Mugulasha, 

 Iberville states that they called many families of Acolapissa and 

 Tiou in to take their places. What became of these Tiou we do not 

 know. When Fort Rosalie was built, the Tiou town was 1 league 

 south of it and 2 leagues west of the great village of the Natchez. 

 Later they sold their land to Sieur Roussin and went elsewhere. 

 December 9, 1729, they were sent by the Natchez on a mission to their 

 linguistic allies, the Tunica, to induce them to declare war against the 

 French, but in vain. In 1731 Charlevoix says they were completely 

 destroyed by the Quapaw and, while the completeness may well be 

 questioned, we hear nothing of them from this time forward. The 

 medicine men of this tribe apparently were in high repute. On the 

 map in Charlevoix's History, the Big Black is called the "River of 

 the Tioux," and on that of Ross their name is given to the Homochitto. 

 Tiou population, — Apart from the fact that this tribe was very 

 small within the historic period, we have no figures bearing upon 

 their numbers. Mooney includes the Tiou, Chakchiuma, Ibitoupa, 

 and Taposa in an estimate of 1,200 for the year 1650, which I would 

 reduce to 1,000. 



TOCOBAGA 



A tribe or "province" whose principal town was at the head of 

 Old Tampa Bay, evidently the town site in Safety Harbor. The 

 town was visited by Menendez in 1567, and he had with him the chief 

 of the Calusa, then at war with the Indians of Tocobaga. Thirty 

 soldiers were left there under Captain Martinez de Coz "to instruct 

 the Indians in the faith," but the latter were so unappreciative that 

 the following year they fell upon their guests and destroyed them 

 all. The Tocobaga seem to have been left alone after that until the 

 beginning of the following century, when we are informed that the 

 chiefs of Pohoy and Tocobaga had attacked Christian Indians and, 

 in consequence, an expedition was sent against them in 1612. After 

 this date they again disappear from history, but it is possible that 

 the "Tompacuas" who later appeared in the Apalachee country were 

 a part of them. The latter were probably the "Macapiras" or "Amaca- 

 piras," who were placed in a mission near St. Augustine called San 

 Buenaventura in 1726 and were associated later with the Pohoy in 

 a town called Jororo. The Indians of both of these tribes are said 

 to have been almost destroyed by pestilence in 1726, whereupon the 

 survivors returned to their old country. 



