Koroa
The Koroa were a Native American tribe who were native to the southeastern United States and no longer exist. The tribe settled on the lower reaches of the Yazoo River , a tributary of the Mississippi River , not far from other tribes such as the Yazoo , the Tunica and the Natchez .
history
The Koroa settled north of today's city of Vicksburg on the lower reaches of the Yazoo River, a tributary of the Mississippi River , in the 17th and 18th centuries . It is possible that the Koroa originally came from a western region in Arkansas , because a report by the Marquette and Joliet Expedition from 1682 describes a tribe called Akoroa who settled on the upper reaches of the Arkansas River . Additional reports from missionaries, travelers, and researchers such as de la Salle from the following decades provide evidence of various Koroa settlements on the Yazoo River and in other regions in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Due to the different spelling, for example Coloa, Kourea and Currous , a clear attribution is sometimes difficult. Catholic missionaries lived in the region from around 1700, and the French built a fort at the mouth of the Yazoo River in 1718 to monitor the waterway to the Chickasaw settlement area . In 1729 the Koroa and the Yazoo rose against the French, following the example of their neighbors, the Natchez, and destroyed the fort. Both tribes were driven from the region, the surviving warriors probably joined the Chickasaw and the Choctaw .
Language and culture
Little is known about the Koroa language, but it is said to have had similarities with that of the Yazoo and the Tunica, as they used the consonant "R" unlike the other tribes in the region. Certain references in historical sources indicate that the Koroa farmed land and lived in well-organized villages and village communities. Their religious and spiritual customs and social structure are likely to have differed only slightly from those of the other smaller tribes in the region, but there is no evidence for this.
See also
List of North American Indian tribes
literature
- Goddard, Ives, Patricia Galloway, Marvin D. Jeter, Gregory A. Waselkov, John E. Worth: Small Tribes of the Western Southeast. In Raymond D. Fogelson (Ed.): Handbook of North American Indians. Volume 14: Southeast, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2004.
- John R. Swanton: Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Adjacent Coast of the Gulf of Mexico , Courier Dover Publications, 1998. ISBN 0486401774
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barry Pritzker: Native Americans: an encyclopedia of history, culture, and peoples, Volume 1 , ABC-CLIO, 1998, ISBN 0874368367 , p. 554
- ^ Ann M. Early (Arkansas Archeological Survey): Koroa In: The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture