Native American Tribes in Louisiana: History of the Tunica People, Natchez People, Tunica Language, Tunica-Biloxi, Caddo, Atakapa, Houma Tribe baixar o livro de graça

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: History of the Tunica People, Natchez People, Tunica Language, Tunica-Biloxi, Caddo, Atakapa, Houma Tribe, Chitimacha, Taensa, Biloxi Tribe, Coushatta, Kadohadacho, Adai, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Doustioni, Natchitoches, Tangipahoa, Okelousa, Avoyel. Excerpt: Adai (also Adaizan, Adaizi, Adaise, Adahi, Adaes, Adees, Atayos ) is the name of a people and language that was spoken in northwestern Louisiana and were a Southeastern culture of Native Americans . The name Adai is derived from the Caddo word hadai meaning 'brushwood'.The Adai were among the first peoples in North America to experience European contactand were profoundly affected. In 1530 lvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca writes of them using the name Atayos . The Adai subsequently moved away from their homeland. By 1820, there were only thirty persons remaining.Language The Adai language is a language isolate . Adai is very poorly documented (known only from a list of 275 words): classification is probably impossible. It was previously proposed that there was a connection between Adai and the Caddoan languages (due to proximity), but this now seems unlikely.Adai is now extinct .Bibliography A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at The Atakapa (U'tkpu), also spelled Attakapa, Attakapas, Attacapa, called themselves the Ishaks, pronounced "ee-SHAKS," translated as "The People." ) They were a Southeastern culture of Native American tribes with a common language who lived along the Gulf of Mexico . They lived in rivers valleys, lake shores, and coasts from Galveston Bay, Texas to Vermilion Bay, Louisiana . After 1762, when Louisiana was transfer to Spain, little was written about the Atapakans. Epidemics of the late 18th century reduced their numbers considerably. Survivors joined the Caddo, Koasati, and other ...