Acolapissa

The Acolapissa were a Native people of the Pearl River between present-day Louisiana and Mississippi. In 1699 Chickasaw raiders led by English slave traders attacked their villages.

The Acolapissa moved to Lake Pontchartrain around 1702 and to the Mississippi near New Orleans in 1722. Disease and pressure from French settlement reduced their numbers; by 1739 their remnants had joined the Houma.