Houma people
Houma | |
|---|---|
18th-century Houma territory | |
| Total population | |
| 600–700 (1699) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| United States (Louisiana, western Mississippi) | |
| Languages | |
| originally Houma language, later French, Louisiana French Isleño Spanish, and English | |
| Religion | |
| Indigenous religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Choctaw and other Muscogeean peoples; French Louisianians |
The Houma (/ˈhoʊmə/) are a historic Native American people of Louisiana and Mississippi on the east side of the Red River of the South. They once spoke a Western Muskogean language.