- as "the people."
Their name was also
spelled Atacapaze, Atalapa,
Attakapa,
Attakapas, or Attacapa.
Atakapa is
either a
Choctaw or
Mobilian term meaning...
- area. In addition,
France established the
Attakapas Post (near the present-day St. Martinville) in the
Attakapas Territory, in 1765.
France gave land grants...
- name to the
Attakapas Council (#208) in 1921. In 1923 the
council changed its name to
Rapides Parish Council (#208), and back to
Attakapas (#208) in 1925...
-
Poste des
Attakapas trading post,
which developed as the
current city of St. Martinville.
Attakapas Parish was
formally created from the
Attakapas and Opelousas...
-
divided into
Ascension and St.
James parishes.
Attakapas County –
Parish of St. Martin. In 1807,
renamed Attakapas Parish. In 1811, it was
subdivided into St...
-
census showed a po****tion of 409
inhabitants for the
Attakapas region. In 1767, the
Attakapas Post had 150
inhabitants before the
arrival of the 15 families...
- in what is now south-central Louisiana—an area
known at the time as
Attakapas, and
later the
center of the
Acadiana region. As Br****eaux wrote, "The...
- area in the
region of Acadiana,
along the Gulf Coast. In 1811,
parts of
Attakapas Parish were
taken out to
create St.
Martin and St. Mary parishes. In 1824...
-
Attakapas Wildlife Management Area, also
known as
Attakapas Island Wildlife Management Area, is a 27,962-acre
tract of
protected area
located in St. Mary...
- down from an
Attakapas Indian.
Duralde wrote: "Many
years before the
discovery of the
elephant in the
bayou called Carancro [sic] an
Attakapas savage had...
