Koroa
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The Karoa were one of the groups of indigenous people who lived in Mississippi prior to the European settlement of the region. They lived in the northwest of Mississippi in the Yazoo River basin.
The Koroa may be the tribe identified by Hernando de Soto's expedition as the Coligua or Cologoa. They were met by Soto's company in the area of what is today Little Rock, Arkansas.[1]
Marguette referred to this tribe by the name Akoroa.[2]
The Koroa lived on both sides of the Mississippi River when the French encontered them. At least one of their villages was on the east bank of the river.[3]
In 1702 a French missionary named Foucault was killed while serving among the Koroa but the tribes leaders had the murder executed.[4]
The Koroa were taken as captives and sold to Carolina slave traders by the Chickasaws.
[edit] Sources
Gibson, Arrell M. "The Indians of Mississippi" in McLemore, Richard Aubrey, ed. A History of Mississippi (Hattiesburg: University and College Press of Mississippi, 1973) vol. 1
- ^ Swanton, John R. The Indians of the Southeastern United States. (United States Government Pringting Office: Washington, 1946) p. 147
- ^ Swanton. Indians of the Southeastern United States p. 147
- ^ Swanton. Indians of the Southeastern United States. p. 147
- ^ Swanton. Indians of the Southeastern United States. p. 147
