While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Koroa. A small
tribe, perhaps related to the Tonika, whose home was on the west bank of
the Mississippi below the Natchez, on the Yazoo, and in the country
intervening westward from the Mississippi. They were visited early in 1682
by La Salle, who described their cabins as dome-shaped, about 15 ft high,
formed chiefly of large canes, and without windows (Margry, Dec., 1, 558,
1876). They were considered warlike, and were cruel and treacherous. In
1705 a party of them, hired by the French priest Foucault to convey him by
water to the Yazoo, murdered him and two other Frenchmen. LaSalle observed
that their language differed from that of the Taensa and Natchez, but
their customs were the same. All afterward moved to and settled on Yazoo
river, Miss., where in 1742 they lived in the same village as the Yazoo.
They were then allies of the
Chickasaw, but were later merged with the
Choctaw and their identity as a
separate organization was lost.
Allen Wright, whose
grandfather was of this tribe, informed Gatschet (Creek Migr. Leg., 1, 48,
1884) that the term Koroa, or Coroa, was neither Choctaw nor Chickasaw,
and that the Koroa spoke a language differing entirely from the Choctaw.
