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 TIHE OKELOUSA ( BLACK WATER ")

 There are but two references to this tribe. The first of these is by
La Harpe in the quotation given on page 298, simply to the effect
that they were allied with the Washa and Chawasha. The second is
by Du Pratz, and is as follows:
 The OquL-Loussas form a little nation which is concealed to the west of and
above Pointe Coupie, of which the French did not even know the name. I one
day encountered a man of this nation who informed me that they lived on the
shores of two little lakes, whose water appeared black on account of the quan-
tity of leaves which cover the bottoms of these lakes, from whence they receive
the name of Oqud-Loussas, which signifies Black Water." a
 If this tribe was Muskhogean, as the writer supposes, it probably
united with some better-known tribe of the lower Mississippi, such
as the Hounma or the Acolapissa.

 THE PASCAGOULA (" BREAD PEOPLE )

 This small tribe was heard of by Iberville in 1699 at the same time
as the Biloxi,b but he did not visit the Pascagoula village until his
second expedition. Sauvolle, however, who had been left in charge
of the new post at Biloxi, sent Bienville thither some time in the
summer of 1099. If we were to judge from his own letter this was
late in June. On their return the explorers reported to him that
" the villages of the Pascoboulas, Biloxi, and Moctobi were 16
leagues inland on Pascagoula river and that they did not number 20
cabins in all.c The 13th [of July]," he notes-
the chief of the Pascoboulas came to sing the peace calumet to us. He had in
his following seven men of the same nation. I have never seen savages less
embarrassed. They embraced us, a thing I have never seen the others do.
They only pass the hand over the breast on their arrival, after having raised
their arms to heaven. They brought me a present of deer skins, which I at
once gave to our hunters in order to make Indian shoes (i. e., moccasins),
a little dried meat, and part of a deer. They parted after having received
their presents, like the others.a
 On the 21st four other savages of this nation came,c and on the 8th
of August seven more,c on errands which were really begging expedi-
tions. Of this latter party Sauvolle says:
 There arrived on the 8th a pirogue. in which there were seven savages of the
Pascoboula nation, among whom was the chief of this same nation. whose
name is Chenoua. They are established on the river of the Mobile. I had
it in my instructions to treat these nations kindly if any of them came, and to
give them a gun, which I did. They undoubtedly go to visit the Spaniards,
for this chief had one of their muskets; besides the gun, I gave him a saber,
an embroidered hat, a hooded cloak, a plume, and other presents for his peo-
 a Du Pratz. Iist. de La Louisiane, It, 241, 1758. Ibid., 453.
 b Margry, Derouvertes, IV, 154, 155, 1880. e Ibid., 454.
 Ibid, 451.


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