A member of a Native American Chitimacha people originally from what is now Mississippi and Louisiana, or the city by this name.
From the Choctaw or Ofagoula-Biloxi languages; 'Biloxi' means 'first people' or 'people of the marshes.' The city was named after the Indigenous nation.
Biloxi's name literally means 'people of the marshes'—a perfect name for a Mississippi coastal city, and it's one of the few major American cities whose name we got directly from the Indigenous people who lived there!
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