High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yazoo tribe was a Native American tribe historically located on the lower course of Yazoo River, Mississippi. It was closely connected to other Tunica peoples, especially the Tunica, Koroa and possibly the Tioux. Nothing is definitely known concerning their language, believed to be related to Tunica, a language isolate. In 1699 Father Antone Davion, of the Quebec Seminary of Foreign Missions, established a mission among the Tunica. He also reached out to allied tribes, such as the Taensa. The Yazoo, however, like the Chickasaw were under the influence of the English traders from Carolina. In 1702 they aided the Koroa in killing Father Nicholas Foucault and three French companions. The seminary temporarily withdrew Father Davion from the area.