Tangipahoa

The Tangipahoa were an Indigenous people of the country north of Lake Pontchartrain. Their name survives on the river that flows south into the lake through forests and lowlands. Late seventeenth-century accounts place a Tangipahoa community near a stream feeding the lake. Like neighbouring peoples, they lived in a region linked by waterways to the Mississippi and the Gulf, where settlements and alliances changed under the pressures of warfare and the arrival of French colonists.