Pascagoula
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Pascagoula |
| Ethnie: | PASCAGOULA |
| Language: | Biloxi-Ofo |
| Family: | Southeastern Siouan |
| Stock: | Siouan |
| Phylum: | Macro-Siouan |
| Macro-Culture: | Eastern Woodlands |
| Speakers | Extinct |
| The Pascagoula were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe. They lived about 50 miles inland on the Pascagoula River. There is little historical information about tribe except that they were early allies of the Biloxi. |
| The Singing River Legend about a mass suicide of the tribe into the Pascagoula River is not possible since the tribe continued to exist long after they removed from Mississippi. |
| Aboriginal Locations |
| MS Several villages along Pascagoula River |
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| Year | History |
| 1699 | Living 20 leagues up the Pascagoula River per Iberville, visited by Bienville |
| 1700 | Visited by Iberville |
| 1764 | Removed to Louisiana, settled on the Mississippi near the mouth of the Red River |
| 1787 | Moved to confluence of Rigolet du Bon Dieu and the Red River |
| 1795 | Moved to Bayou Boeuf on lands granted by Choctaw |
| 1822 | Three bodies of Pascagoula, two on Red River and one on a branch of the Neches in Texas |
| 1908 | Two, living near the Alabama in Texas, claimed their mother was Pascagoula |
| Year | Total Population | LA | MS | Source | |
| 1650 | 1,000 | Mooney estimate | |||
| 1700 | 200 | Iberville (20 families[?]) | |||
| 1700 | 200 | 200 | NAHDB calculation | ||
| 1800 | 200 | 200 | NAHDB calculation | ||
| 1805 | 150 | Sibley (25 warriors) | |||
| 1822 | 240 | Morse | |||
| 1829 | 111 | Swanton | |||
| 1900 | 0 | NAHDB calculation | |||
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Biloxi, Ofo |
| Pascagoula Sites: |
| Biloxi Language http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/11650454.htm |
| Biloxi-Ofo Language http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=BLL |
| Biloxi-Ofo Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_lang_family.asp?code=BLL |
| Legend of the Singing River http://www.etv.state.ms.us/Singing_River_Website_20031204/Singing_River_Website/tg_legend.htm |
| Pascagoula http://www.cityofpascagoula.com/profiletrivia.htm |
| Pascagoula Indian Tribe History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/pascagoula/pascagoulahist.htm |
| ... Singing River Legend http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/11650454.htm |
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