{{Short description|Native American tribe}} {{For|the village in Louisiana|Tangipahoa, Louisiana}}
The '''Tangipahoa''' were a Native American tribe that lived just north of Lake Pontchartrain and between the Pearl River and the Mississippi River.
==Etymology== The name Tangipahoa is derived from the Muskogean words ''(tonche pahoha)'' which translates to "corncob people" or "people of the corn" or "corncob".<ref>{{cite book|title=Bulletin - Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y675oZ4RPrQC&pg=PA2|year=1909|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=2}}</ref> It is from this Native American tribe that the modern Tangipahoa Parish gets its name, as well as the Tangipahoa River and the village of Tangipahoa.
==Population== Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville wrote that in the year 1650 the population of both the Acolapissa and Tangipahoa combined consisted of 250 families and around 150 men. However the research by James Mooney determined that a more accurate count was proposed by Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe when he found that the tribe population was around 1500 people.<ref name="Denevan1992">{{cite book|author=William M. Denevan|title=The Native Population of the Americas in 1492|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J_wzOoGtYQoC&pg=PA264|date=1 March 1992|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-13433-4|pages=264–}}</ref>
==Language== The Tangipahoa language was closely related to Choctaw and Chickasaw, which are both Muskogean languages.<ref name="Read2008">{{cite book|author=William A. Read|title=Louisiana Place Names of Indian Origin: A Collection of Words|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MSbUOTHeSWoC&pg=PA61|date=12 October 2008|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=978-0-8173-5505-0|pages=61–}}</ref>
==History== On March 31, 1682, Henri de Tonti on a journey with René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle wrote that they camped at Maheoula, a Tangipahoa settlement.<ref name="French1875">{{cite book|author=Benjamin Franklin French|title=Historical Collections of Louisiana and Florida: Including Translations of Original Manuscripts Relating to Their Discovery and Settlement, with Numerous Historical and Biographical Notes|url=https://archive.org/details/historicalcolle06frengoog|year=1875|publisher=A. Mason|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historicalcolle06frengoog/page/n47 23]–}}</ref> Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville claimed that the Tangipahoa settlement was an Acolapissa settlement and that they were of the same tribe. The Tangipahoa settlement was destroyed sometime in the 17th century. When La Salle reached the village he said he saw that it was burned and that there were bodies laying in the village. La Salle wrote that when he asked the Bayogoula tribe what had happened they claimed that the Tangipahoa village was destroyed by the Houma people.<ref name="Hodge1910">{{cite book|author=Frederick Webb Hodge|title=Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico: N-Z|url=https://archive.org/details/handbookamerica02unkngoog|year=1910|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=[https://archive.org/details/handbookamerica02unkngoog/page/n699 685]}}</ref> The remaining Tangipahoa tribe members are believed to have reunited with the Acolapissa and eventually merged with the Bayogoula and then the Houma.<ref name="Heard1987">{{cite book|author=Joseph Norman Heard|title=Handbook of the American Frontier: The southeastern woodlands|url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofameric0003hear|url-access=registration|year=1987|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-1931-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/handbookofameric0003hear/page/5 5]}}</ref><ref name="Tangipahoa Indians">{{cite web|author=Native Languages of the Americas website|url=http://www.native-languages.org/tangipahoa.htm |title=Tangipahoa Indians |publisher=Native Languages of the Americas website |accessdate=2018-04-24}}</ref><ref name="Acolapissa History">{{cite web|author=Native Languages of the Americas website|url=http://www.dickshovel.com/acol.html |title=ACOLAPISSA HISTORY |publisher=Jordan S. Dill. |accessdate=2018-04-24}}</ref>
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==Further reading== * Swanton, John R. ''[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014433802;view=1up;seq=9 The Indians of the Southeastern United States]'' as ''U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 137'' (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1946) [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014433802;view=1up;seq=228 p. 190]
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Category:Native American tribes in Louisiana Category:Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands