BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY


 Houjets" is certainly intended for "Avoyels," though it is at
the same time an awful example of the extreme to which misprinting
can be carried, and ch cre is as evidently adapted from chevreuil.
The last narratives would indicate a considerable body of Indians of
this tribe still in existence at the end of the eighteenth century, but
in 1805 Sibley thus remarks, in concluding his treatment of the
Indian tribes of lower Louisiana:
 At Avoyall there did live a considerable tribe of that name; but, as far as I
can learn, have been extinct for many years, two or three women excepted,
who did lately live among the French inhabitants of Washita.a
 In 1908 the writer found one Tunica Indian whose grandmother
was an Avoyel, called in Tunica Shi'xekaltq'ni, Stone-arrow-point
people,' but he knew nothing regarding them. He learned from
others, however, that this tribe claimed to have issued out of the
earth at a place now occupied by a certain lake. It is possible that
the group of mounds just south of Marksville, one of which is shown
in plate 12, a, was erected by them.

 MUSKHOGEAN TRIBES PROPER

 THE BAYOGOULA (" BAYOU OR RIVER PEOPLE")

 Unless the Pischenoa, encountered by Tonti, in 1686, 49 leagues
above the Quinipissa," and which subsequently disappear entirely
from history, were the above people, they were not seen by La Salle
nor any of his companions, and must have come to the river between
1686 and 1699. At the latter date Iberville found them living on the
west bank above Bayou la, Fourche, at a place which still bears their
name. The Mugulasha were then living with them. In February.
1699, shortly after Iberville's arrival in Biloxi bay, a Bayogoula and
Mugulasha hunting party discovered his people and came to make an
alliance with him.c The 13th of March, in ascending the Mississippi,
he encountered two canoes, one of the Washa and the other of the
Bayogoula, of which the latter went ahead to announce his arrival.
One league below the landing place some Mugulasha came by canoe
to offer him the calumet, and after his arrival both nations gave him
food and sang and danced for him. The calumet which he had given
them when they came to Biloxi had been planted on a forked stick
placed in the middle of the assemblage, and was continually watched
by a man appointed for this purpose. Next day, the 15th of March,
he went up to the village, which he describes as follows:
 I found this village a quarter of a league from the river, near which there
passes a little stream from which they get their drinking water. It was sur-
 "Ann. 9th Cong., 2d sess., 1097, 1852.
 bMargry, Decouvertes, !rI, 557, 1878; see also p. 37.
 SIbid., iv, 154, 1880,


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