Total population | |
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extinct as a tribe, may have merged into Chakchiuma | |
Regions with significant populations | |
United States ( Mississippi) | |
Languages | |
likely a Muskogean language [1] | |
Religion | |
Indigenous religion | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Chakchiuma, Ibitoupa, [2] and Tiou [3] |
The Taposa were an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands from what is now Mississippi in the United States. [4]
The Taposa were a small tribe like their neighbors, the Ibitoupa and Chakchiuma, who all lived along the upper Yazoo River between the larger, more powerful Chickasaw and Choctaw. [2] [5]
The Taposa were first written about by French colonist Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville in 1699. [1]
Baron de Crenay's 1733 map of Louisiana includes a Taposa settlement near the Chakchiuma. [1] Another neighboring tribe, the Ibitoupa may have merged into the Taposa in 1722. [6] The Taposa ultimately allied with the Chickasaw. [1]
The original meaning of the name "Taposa" has been lost. [7]