The Tangipahoa were a Native American tribe that lived in Louisiana, just north of Lake Pontchartrain

Lake Pontchartrain

Lake Pontchartrain is a brackish estuary located in southeastern Louisiana. It is the second-largest inland saltwater body of water in the United States, after the Great Salt Lake in Utah, and the largest lake in Louisiana. As an estuary, Pontchartrain is not a true lake.It covers an area of with...

. It is from them that the modern town of Tangipahoa, Louisiana

Tangipahoa, Louisiana

Tangipahoa is a village in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 747 at the 2000 census. It was named after the Native American tribe of the Tangipahoa.Tangipahoa is part of the Hammond Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

 gets its name.

The Tangipahoa were closely related to the Acolapissa

Acolapissa

The Acolapissa were a small tribe of Native Americans, said to originate from the shores of the Pearl River, between Louisiana and Mississippi before 1702. This made them one of four tribes, along with the Bayogoula, Biloxi, and Pascagoula who inhabited the gulf coast of Mississippi at the time of...

. They reunited with the Acolapissa after that tribe moved west from its former home in Mississippi and have since merged with the Houma

Houma Tribe

The Houma people are a Native America tribe. They belong to the United Houma Nation, a state recognized tribe in Louisiana. They primarily live in East and West Feliciana, and Pointe Coupee Parishes, about 100 miles north of the town of Houma named for them, west of the mouth of the Mississippi...

along with the rest of the Acolapissa.

Sources

• Swanton, John R. The Indians of the Southeastern United States as U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 137 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1946) p. 190