[1] At that time, the Yazoo and Koroa joined with the Natchez in attacking the French colonists, in an attempt to drive them out of the region altogether.
On November 29, 1729, the Natchez attacked Fort Rosalie, killing more than 200 people, including the Jesuit priest Paul Du Poisson.
On learning of the event, the Yazoo and Koroa, on December 11, 1729, waylaid and killed Rouel and his black slave.
John Grisham's story "Casino", included in the short-story collection Ford County (2009), turns on a shady businessman in present-day Mississippi gathering several dozen people with purported Yazoo ancestry to seek tribal status.
He gains federal recognition for them as a Native American tribe, which would enable them to use their land to develop a gaming casino.