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there cain have been alny connection between the names of a Natchez
and an Arkansas town, nor is the resemblance convincingly close.
Margry notes that instead of Thbloel we should perhaps read Th6coel,
in which case Gatschet's suggestion regarding the identity of Thou-
coue with it becomes rather strong, especially in view of the fact
that the other name for the entire people, Natchez, is also taken from
that of a town. But, if this be the case, it is quite certain that it
does not refer to the tribe of Thioux, or Tioux, a small subject group,
which certainly would not give its name to the entire body. It is
more likely that the Tioux town is represented by the next in the
list, Tougoulas, which would then be translated Tioux people in-
stead of wood or forest people.' Possibly Thoucoue also refers to
the Tioux, but in that case it was not the same as Th6coel. Of the
remaining names with one exception it is impossible to judge of the
interpretations at the present time, especially since the designations
given by later writers differ entirely. The exception is in the case
of the third name on the list. Ousagoucoulas, interpreted as hickory
people,' which is evidently that referred to by M. de Richebourg in
his memoir on the first Natchez war" along with White-earth, and
the village of the (rigra as the village of the Walnuts." The cor-
rectness of Wright's interpretation in this instance seems better as-
sured than in most other cases, because the Natchez and the Choctaw
words for hickory are very similar-aca (Natchez), i'ssak or
o'ssakl (Choctaw). By the first French colonists of Louisiana the
hickory was always called walnut (noyer), although sometimes
distinguished as the white walnut in contradistinction to the
true or black walnut." Therefore de Richebourg undoubtedly
refers to the hickory. Outside of the Tioux village or villages which
seem to have been added to the Natchez nucleus in comparatively
late times, all authors after P6nicaut speak of but five settlements,
of which two were usually on friendly terms with the French,
while the other three, though not always in open enmity, were uni-
formly the authors of disturbances between the two peoples and
ultimately furnished the incentive for the last great Natchez war.
The two first mentioned were the Great village and Flour village,
the three latter, as given by Dumont, the White Apple, or Apple,
village, Jenzenaque or Jansenac, and the village of the Gris.
These three hostile towns are mentioned by De Richebourg under
the names of the village of the Walnuts (or Hickories), White-
earth, and the village of the Grigas." This last is evidently the same
as that of the Gris, and it was occupied by a small -iili..i tribe called
Grigra, probably as Du Pratz says. because they often pronounce
 French, Hist. Coll. La., 248, 1851.