Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Biloxi tribe are Native Americans of the Siouan language family. They call themselves by the autonym Tanêks(a) in Siouan Biloxi language. When first encountered by Europeans in 1699 the Biloxi inhabited an area near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico near what is now the city of Biloxi Mississippi. They were eventually forced west into Louisiana and eastern Texas.
