Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "History of New Orleans" in English language version.
The name itself honors the precolonial community that was at the site of New Orleans. Bulbancha is a Choctaw word which means "place of many tongues" because Bulbancha was, surprise surprise, a trading port for many different peoples, of distinct heritages and linguistic groups. Bulbancha was not necessarily a permanent residence for any one group of people, though it hosted peoples from the Chitimacha, Choctaw, Ishak, Tunica, and Natchez nations, to name just a few. (Comeaux herself is Acadian-Creole Métis of Ishak descent). The river was known by this community as Malboncha, which means "river of many tongues" ("Mississippi" is also a native word, but not one that comes from the Bulbancha area)
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)The city of New Orleans was not built upon virgin soil, but merely served as a continuation of a great indigenous trade hub known in Choctaw as Bulbancha,
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Welcome to what is called New Orleans and is Bulbancha, which means place of many tongues, unceded land of the Chitimacha, the Houma, the Chahta Yakni (Choctaw), the Atakapa Ishak Chawasha, and all Indigenous peoples of this region.