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!
Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens,
clans and phratry. Often very little
information is known or they no longer
exist. We have included them here to
provide more information about the tribes.
Grigras. A French nickname and the only known name of a
small tribe already incorporated with the Natchez confederacy in 1720; it was
applied because of the frequent occurrence of grigra in their language.
There is uncertainty in regard to the language and ethnic relations, but unless
affiliated with the Tonica, the tribe was evidently distinct from every other,
since, as indicated by the sound grigra, their language possessed an r.
Hoaiels. Mentioned by Baudry des Lozières
(Voy. Louisiane, 242, 1802) in a list of tribes with no indication of
habitat. Possibly intended for Theloel, a name given sometimes to part, at
others to all the Natchez.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
