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The Atakapa /əˈtækəpə, -pɑː/ or Atacapa were an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, who spoke the Atakapa language and historically lived...

Atakapa (/əˈtækəpə, -pɑː/, natively Ishakkoy) is an extinct language isolate native to southwestern Louisiana and nearby coastal eastern Texas. It was...

USS Atakapa (ATF-149) was an Achomawi class of fleet ocean tug. It was named after the Atakapa Native American tribe that once inhabited territory which...

The Atapaka Ishak Nation, officially named the Atakapa Ishak Tribe of Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana, is a cultural heritage organization of...

misspelling of the word Akokisa. In the vernacular of another tribe, the Atakapa who settled in the Gulf Coast woodlands, Akokisa means “river people.”...

likely comes through French from the Atakapa language Katkōsh Yōk ('Crying Eagle'), the name of a local Atakapa leader. The Calcasieu rises in Vernon...

Isolates Haida Karuk Kutenai Washo Zuni Alsea Atakapa Chimariko Chitimacha Esselen Natchez Salinan Siuslaw Taensa Takelma Tawasa Timucua Tonkawa Tunica...

Muskogean languages, along with four language isolates: Natchez, Tunica, Atakapa, and (possibly) Chitimacha. Gulf was proposed as a language family by Mary...

bin Ahmed, the forefather and common ancestor of the Isaaq clan-family Atakapa, a Native American people who call themselves the Ishak Ishak, Iran, a...

US state, at 54.7 percent. Several American Indian tribes such as the Atakapa and Caddo inhabited Louisiana before European colonization, concentrated...

grouped together the Comecrudo, Cotoname, Coahuilteco, Karankawa, Tonkawa, Atakapa, and Maratino languages into a Coahuiltecan grouping. Edward Sapir (1920)...

Costas), Florida Amacano, Florida west coast Apalachee, northwestern Florida Atakapa (Attacapa), Louisiana west coast and Texas southeastern coast Akokisa,...

(1996), Campbell (1997), and Mithun (1999). Adai † Algic (30) Alsea (2) † Atakapa † Beothuk † Caddoan (5) Cayuse † Chimakuan (2) † Chimariko † Chinookan...

for unrestrained emigration. Many Acadians moved to the region of the Atakapa in present-day Louisiana, often travelling via the French colony of Saint-Domingue...

Gulf of Mexico and Bayou Nezpique, occupied by the Atakapas Indians (Eastern Atakapa), was named Atakapas Territory. In 1764, France established the Opelousas...

present-day Greater Houston area. They were a band of the Atakapa Indians, closely related to the Atakapa of Lake Charles, Louisiana. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca...

community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. The coastal village is home to the Atakapa Ishak Chawasha tribe and is only accessible by water. It is primarily self-sustaining...

parish are at the heart of Acadiana. The earliest settlers in the area were Atakapa Native American tribespeople. Several burial mounds exist along the Vermilion...

in the 18th century. At various times, they allied with the neighboring Atakapa and Chitimacha peoples. Michel De Birotte, who lived in Louisiana from...

California. He is of Louisiana Creole descent. Jolivette is a member of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation of Louisiana, a nonprofit organization based in Lake Charles...