Barra-Kooda, known by his tribe, the River Men, as Land Walker, is perhaps one of the most well known Water Tribals largely for his ability to do something that is naturally rare amongst Water Tribals; both explore locales further inland in the Louisiana Vermillion Bay area and, as a consequence of this, engage in basic conversation with outsiders. Unlike his fellow Water Tribals, whose ultimately xenophobic distrust and hatred of outsiders makes such a simple idea very difficult in practice, Kooda's own, more positive attitudes towards outsiders and non-Water Tribals has made him something of an unofficial representative of the Water Tribals in the Vermillion Bay region, despite having loyalties only to his own tribe, especially following the massacre of the last post-war denizens of Lara