Subdivisions or Bands
Atakapa-speaking peoples are called Atakapan, while Atakapa refers to a specific tribe.
- Western Atakapa
- Akokisa, lived along the lower course of Trinity and San Jacinto Rivers and eastern shores of Galveston Bay
- Atakapa (proper), Calcasieu Lake near present day Lake Charles
- Bidai, around Bedias Creek, ranging from the Brazos River to Neches River, Texas
- Deadose, a band of Bidai that separated in the early 18th c., east-central Texas
- Orcoquiza, lived north of Galveston Bay along the Trinity and Colorado rivers
- Patiri or Pastia, north of the San Jacinto River valley, Texas. Little is known about them.
- Tlacopsel, Acopsel, or Lacopspel, southeast Texas
- Eastern Atakapa
- Groups settled near Vermilion Bay and the Mermentau River, Louisiana. Present-day Acadiana parishes of St. Martin, Lafayette, Iberia, St. Landry, Vermilion, St. Mary and Acadia in Louisiana.
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