Koroa

The Koroa, called Akoroa by the French, were a people of the Yazoo River basin in present-day northwest Mississippi, with villages on both banks of the Mississippi River; their speech is believed to have been a dialect of Tunica, a language isolate. They may be the Coligua encountered by Hernando de Soto's expedition near modern Little Rock in 1541.

La Salle twice visited a west-bank Koroa town in 1682 and found their Quinipissa allies there. A French mission under Antoine Davion arrived in 1698; in 1702 the priest Nicolas Foucault was killed among them, though Koroa leaders themselves executed his killers.

European epidemics thinned the tribe, and in 1729 the survivors joined the Yazoo and Natchez in a great revolt against the French; afterwards the Koroa ceased to exist as a separate tribe, absorbed by the Tunica, Chickasaw and Natchez.