disappeared by the time ethnologist James Owen Dorsey visited them in Louisiana in 1892 and 1893, they still traced descent in the maternal line, in a matrilineal kinship system. Three clans were active: Ita aⁿyadi, Deer people; Oⁿʇi aⁿyadi, Bear people; and Naqotodc̷a aⁿyadi, Alligator people. Most Biloxi identified as Deer people. Dorsey described their elaborate social system, with more than 53 terms for kinship relations and a dozen which had been forgotten, more than any other Siouan people he had visited and studied. See also Biloxi language Tunica-Biloxi Mosopelea References Brain, Jeffrey (1990), The Tunica-Biloxi. Indians of North America series. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. Dorsey, James Owen. and James Swanton (1912), A Dictionary of the Biloxi and Ofo Languages. Bureau of American Ethnology, 47. Washington, D.C. De Montigny, Dumont (1753), Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane. Paris. Kniffen, Fred & H. Gregory & G. Stokes (1987). The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana: from 1542 to the Present. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. Siouan peoples Native American tribes in Louisiana Native American tribes in Mississippi Native American tribes in Texas ca:Biloxi ru:Туника-билокси