FDI - Koroa

The Koroa were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe first met in Arkansas and then eventually removing to Mississippi. The Koroa decision to join the Natchez in their outbreak against the French was their undoing. The survivors absorbed into the Choctaw.

Aboriginal Locations (Subdivisions, #of villages)

AR Possibly near present Little Rock in 1541

Year	*History*
1541	Possibly visited by De Soto in Arkansas, called "Coligua" or "Coligoa"
1672	Called Akoroa on Marquette's map; La Salle placed them on the east side of the Mississippi
1686	Living near Yazoo
1690	Visited by Tonti on the Red River and on the Koroa River
1702	French missionary Foucault killed by tribe member who was in turn slain by order of Koroa chiefs
1704	Suffered severe defeat at the hands of the Quapaw, removed to Yazoo River
1729	Outbreak of Natchez War against the French, Koroa murdered missionary P. Seuel and along with the Yazoo, massacred the garrison at ft. St. Peter, later attacked by Chakchiuma and Choctaw and still later by the Quapaw
1731	Occupying a fort on the Tensas River along with the Yazoo; took part with the Natchez in an attack on the Tunica; eventually joined Choctaw and possibly Chickasaw (Choctaw Chief Allen Wright claimed Koroa descent)

Year	Total MS Population	Source
1700	300	NAHDB calculation
1730	300	Le Page du Pratz (40 cabins)
1800	0	NAHDB calculation
1900	0	NAHDB calculation
2000	0	NAHDB calculation

Ethnie:	KOROA
Language:	Tunican
Family	Tunican
*Stock:*	Tunican
*Phylum:*	Algic
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands