Bonfouca, Louisiana

Bonfouca (also Bonfonca, Boucffouca, Bouefuka, Boukfouca) is an unincorporated community in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.

[1] It is on Louisiana Highway 433 adjacent to Liberty Bayou two miles west of Slidell.

Bokfuka was the name of a Choctaw chief who attacked the German Coast of Louisiana in the year 1747.

[3] In 1802 Louis-Narcisse Baudry Des Lozieres documented the name of the tribe.

He referred to the 18th century chief as "Bonifoucas", a French transliteration of the Choctaw.