FDI - Biloxi

The Biloxi were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe with the main body residing on the lower course of the Pascagoula River. They apparently arrived in the area late from north, and may have been the Capitanesses which appear on the Susquehanna River in early Dutch charts. Some absorbed into the Choctaw but most confederated with the Tunica in Louisiana.

Aboriginal Locations (# of Villages)

Had villages in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi

Year	*History*
1699	Encountered by Ibervile in Louisiana
1707	15 Biloxi warriors accompanied St. Denis to visit Chitimacha
1722	Settled on Pearl River
1730	Had settled on the Pascagoula River
1733	De Crenay map shows Biloxi village on Alabama River
1800	Some moved to Biloxi Bayou, Texas
1886	All moved to Oklahoma with the Choctaw with whom those persons are now enumerated or to Rapides Parish, Louisiana and confederated with the Tunica

Year	Total Population	AL	LA	MS	Source
1699	500				LaHarpe
1700	400	100	100	200	NAHDB calculation
1800	50		50		NAHDB calculation
1805	70				Sibley
1829	65				Schoolcroft
1900	50		50		NAHDB calculation
1908	7				Census
2000	50		50		NAHDB calculation

Biloxi Sites:

Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw of Louisiana http://www.biloxi-chitimacha.com/

Biloxi Indians http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/BB/bmb8.html

Biloxi Indian Tribe History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/siouan/biloxihist.htm

Biloxi Language http://www.native-languages.org/biloxi.htm

Biloxi-Ofo Language http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=BLL

Biloxi-Ofo Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=92395

Louisiana Folklife Festival http://www.louisianafolklifefest.org/craftsman.html

Paragon Casino and Resort http://www.paragoncasinoresort.com/about/about_us.asp

Singing River Legend http://www.etv.state.ms.us/Singing_River_Website_20031204/Singing_River_Website/tg_legend.htm

Tunica-Biloxi Authors http://www.louisiana101.com/hotlinks_wayback_TunicaBiloxi_Tribe.html

Tunica-Biloxi Folklife http://www.nsula.edu/folklife/database/cultures/NativeAmer/TunicaBiloxi.html

Tunica-Biloxi Master Plan http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/pd/projectsList/home.asp?projectID=70&directoryFilePath=ProjectData%5C

Tunica-Biloxi Today http://www.crt.state.la.us/crt/ocd/arch/tunica/today.htm

Tunica-Biloxi Tribe http://users.aol.com/donh523/navapage/tunica.htm

Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana http://www.tunica.org/

*Ethnie:*	BILOXI
*Language:*	Biloxi-Ofo
*Family:*	Southeastern Siouan
*Stock:*	Siouan
*Phylum:*	Macro-Siouan
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands
Speakers	Extinct