Huma (red). A Choctaw tribe living during the earlier period of the French colonization of Louisiana, 7 leagues above Red river on the east bank of the Mississippi, their settlement in 1699 containing 140 cabins and 350 families. A red pole marked the boundary between them ad the Bayogoula on the south. In 1706 the Tonika fled to them from the Chickasaw, but later rose against them and killed more than half, after which the remainder established themselves near the site of New Orleans. later they lived along Bayou La Fourche and in the neighborhood of the present Houma, Louisiana, which bears their name. They are now supposed to be extinct.
Hello! I’m Houma/Huma and we’re not extinct. I do genetic genealogy by way of being adopted. Both of my biological parents were also adopted. By using cMs and creating working tree based on genetic matches, I was able to dicover who my family is.This is also how I discovered that I even had indiginous heritage (43%+). I had no idea of what my ethnicity was until I took a DNA test. I’m currently working on research on Louisiana tribes and how they connect. Your site has been helpful with putting some puzzle pieces together. I will also be using genetics to trace back with what I have found here through chromosonal painting and genetic percentages of matches I have that belong to different tribes that are still related to me despite tribal difference. I’m developing a theory