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The Taensa (also Taënsas, Tensas, Tensaw, and Grands Taensas in French) were a Native American people whose settlements at the time of European contact

The Taensa language was spoken by the Taensa people originally of northeastern Louisiana, and later with historical importance in Alabama. Though poorly

is St. Joseph. The name Tensas is derived from the historic indigenous Taensa people. The parish was founded in 1843 following Indian Removal. The parish

near St. Louis, Missouri. It is considered ancestral to the Natchez and Taensa Peoples. Emerald Mound: A Plaquemine Mississippian period archaeological

to the Marksville culture (100 BCE to 400 CE). The Natchez and related Taensa peoples were their historic period descendants. The type site for the culture

used it were the Alabama, Apalachee, Biloxi, Chacato, Pakana, Pascagoula, Taensa, Tunica, Caddo, Chickasaw, Houma, Choctaw, Chitimacha, Natchez, and Ofo

County, Alabama. The name "Tensaw" is derived from the historic indigenous Taensa people. It is a distributary of the Mobile River, about 41 miles (66 km)

Europeans when they first arrived in the area. In the Natchez Bluffs area, the Taensa and Natchez people had held out against Mississippian influence and continued

Louisiana black bear. The name Tensas is derived from the historic indigenous Taensa people. The first plantations along the Tensas River were established by

languages turn out to be hoaxes, such as the Kukurá language of Brazil or the Taensa language of Louisiana. Others are honest errors that persist in the literature