Bayagoula

The Bayagoula were a people of the lower Mississippi valley, near Bayou Goula in present-day Louisiana. In 1699 they shared a village with the Mugulasha and met the French explorer Iberville.

After a Houma attack that winter, the Bayagoula destroyed the Mugulasha in 1700. In 1706 Taensa refugees attacked the Bayagoula and burned their village; survivors moved near New Orleans and later to the area of present-day Ascension Parish. By 1739 they had settled between the Houma and Acolapissa.