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Wakokai population. — The following estimates of the number of 

 Wakokai warriors are found : 100 in 1738, more than 60 in 1750, 100 in 

 1760, 60 in 1761, 100 in 1772, 300 in 1792. There are no early figures 

 for Tukpafka, Wiogufki, or Sakapadai, and on the other hand, the 

 census of 1832-33, which omits Wakokai entirely, returned a total 

 population of 353 in Wiogufki, 391 in Tukpafka, and 198 in Sakapadai. 



WASHA (FRENCH: OUACHA) 



A small tribe living in 1699 on Bayou Lafourche, west of the present 

 city of New Orleans, La. Indians of this tribe may have fought 

 De Soto's Spaniards in 1543 (see Chawasha). In the year first men- 

 tioned, Iberville learned of it, and met a canoe containing people be- 

 longing to it when he was on his way up the Mississippi. In July 

 Bienville vainly attempted to establish friendly relations with the 

 Washa, but in 1718 they moved to the Mississippi and settled on the 

 south side 11 leagues above New Orleans. In 1739 an ofiicer with M. 

 de Nouaille reported that this tribe and the related Chawasha were 

 near the settlements called "Les Allemands," on the left bank of the 

 river. In 1758 De Kerlerec stated that they had been practically de- 

 stroyed, but as late as 1805 Sibley reported 2 men and 3 women still 

 living but scattered in French families, and without a knowledge of 

 their native tongue. In the French form, their name has been ap- 

 plied to Lake Salvador and to a small body of water on the edge 

 of the Gulf of Mexico. 



Washa population. — In 1699 La Harpe reported that the Washa, 

 the Chawasha, and the Okelousa together had perhaps 200 warriors, 

 but another figure for that year gives 200 warriors to the Washa alone. 

 In 1715 Bienville estimated 50, but in 1739 there were said to be only 

 30 warriors of the Washa and Chawasha, and in 1805, as we have seen, 

 there were but 5 individuals left. 



WASHITA OR OUACHITA 



A small Caddo tribe which has given its name to Ouachita River, 

 La. In 1700 Bienville passed through their village located near the 

 present site of Columbia on the Ouachita, but already by 1690 a part of 

 them had left and settled near the Natchitoches Indians. The French 

 governor of Louisiana, Perrier, wrote in 1730 that they had been 

 destroyed by the Taensa, but the greater part probably withdrew to 

 the Natchitoches or other Caddo tribes farther west. 



Washita population, — Bienville reported in 1700 that there were 

 5 cabins and about 70 men in their town on Ouachita River. 



