Pointe Coupee: "Cut-Off Point"
Furthermore, the Tunica village was “a source of information, material, and police and military support for the Pointe Coupee post throughout the eighteenth century” (244). Problems arouse due to frequent attacks by other Native tribal groups and as such, the Pointe Coupee “settlement grew independently of the Tunica village” (244). Yet, “the Tunica Indians were said to be very attached to the French” (245).
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