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Did you Know? List of Interesting Facts about Indians Louisiana
Facts are statements which are held to be true and often contrasted with opinions and beliefs. Our unusual and interesting facts about Indians of Louisiana, trivia and information, including some useful statistics will fascinate everyone from kids and children to adults.

Facts about Indians and interesting Facts about Indians Louisiana are as follows:

  • Fact 1 - Louisiana is a state in the south-eastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico. The indigenous people of this state included various tribes of Native Americans.

  • Fact 2 - The Southeast Indians were tribes of hunter gatherers and hunter farmers. Men were in charge of hunting for food and protecting the camp and the women were in charge of the land and home.  They lived in states including Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama
  • Fact 3 - Names of Border States: Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas. Origin of the name of the state: Named in honor of King Louis XIV of France
  • Fact 4 - Homes and Houses: Wattle and Daub Houses (Asi) were used by the Cherokee who wanted permanent homes to suit their farmer-hunter life styles. Asi - Wattle and Daub Houses were made by using a framework of poles intertwined with branches and vines covered with mud
  • Fact 5 - Features of the area: Low country on the Gulf coastal plain and the Mississippi alluvial plain with many lagoons and lakes
  • Fact 6 - The Adai were a tribe of the Caddo confederacy who faced total extinction due to European diseases and conflicts with the Spanish. The survivors combined with the other Caddoan tribes of the region
  • Fact 7 - The Alabama or Alibamu are a South-eastern culture people of Indians
  • Fact 8 - The Apalachee are an extinct tribe of Native North Americans once centered about Apalachee Bay in North West Florida. They were conquered by combined Native American and British forces and merged with the Seminole tribe. Wars and diseases, brought by the Europeans, to which they had no immunity led to their demise.
  • Fact 9 - The Muskogee Creek tribe of Indians were members of the Creek Confederacy formerly living in eastern Alabama, southwest Georgia, Louisiana and northwest Florida and now located in central Oklahoma and southern Alabama. The Creek received their name from white traders because so many of their villages were located by rivers and creeks. The Creek were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s.
  • Fact 10 - The Avoyel was a small Natchez speaking tribe who inhabited land near the Red River in the area of present-day Marksville, Louisiana. The word 'Avoyel' is of French derivation meaning "Flint People". They became extinct by 1805.
  • Fact 11 - The Bayogoula inhabited the present Bayou Goula, in Iberville Parish. The word 'Bayogoula means "bayou people". They suffered from attacks by the Houma tribe.
  • Fact 12 - The Biloxi: The Tunica - Biloxi Indians inhabited an area near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico - Mississippi. They were eventually forced west into Louisiana and eastern Texas.
  • Fact 13 - The Caddo Indians are plains Indians related to the Wichita and Pawnee tribes
  • Fact 14 - The Chatot originated in Florida. They entered Louisiana in 1764 with Spanish Missionaries.
  • Fact 15 - The Chawasha were a war-like tribe who fought the white settlers and other tribes such as the Chickasaw, Yazoo, and Natchez. Following the Natchez uprising of 1729 Governor Perrier allowed a band of Negro slaves to attack the Chawasha in a show of retaliation. It is said that this attack led to the extinction of the tribe.
  • Fact 16 - The Chitimacha inhabited the southern Louisiana coast. The French took many as slaves and others were killed by European diseases. The survivors moved north.
  • Fact 17 - The Choctaw Indians of central and southern Mississippi and southwest Alabama, Florida and Louisiana with present-day populations in Mississippi and southeast Oklahoma. The Choctaw became known as one of the "Five Civilized Tribes".
  • Fact 18 - The Houma inhabited the Louisiana parishes of East and West Feliciana, Pointe Coupee and the Red River. They spoke the Muskogean language like other Choctaw tribes to whom they were related. In 1700, the Houma were in a border conflict with the Bayougoula over hunting grounds.
  • Fact 19 - The Koasati, also called Coushatta, were farmers of maize and corn. They spoke the Muskogean language like other Choctaw tribes and originated in Georgia and Alabama but under pressure from white settlers they moved west into Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
  • Fact 20 - The Koroa originated in the Mississippi Valley. The Chickasaw were their enemies who conducted raids against the Koroa, taking them captive and selling them to Carolina slave traders. They are now an extinct tribe.
  • Fact 21 - The Mugulasha were closely affiliated to the Quinipissa tribe with whom they merged.
  • Fact 22 - The Atakapa lived near rivers, lakes and coasts from Galveston Bay, Texas to Vermilion Bay, Louisiana. The name Atakapa in Choctaw meant "man eater" because they sometimes ate the flesh of their enemies. The tribe called themselves the Ishaks but brought to extinction by disease and fighting.
  • Fact 23 - The Natchez inhabited the originally lived in the Natchez Bluffs area, near the present-day city of Natchez, Mississippi. They spoke the Muskogean language like other Choctaw tribes of the Creek confederacy. They fought wars with the French who sold them into slavery following the Natchez uprising of 1729
  • Fact 24 - The Okelousa were semi nomadic who hunted along the coastline. They were allied with the Washa and Chawasha tribes and eventually merged with the Houma.
  • Fact 25 - The Opelousa were a small nomadic tribe who were allied with the Atakapa
  • Fact 26 - The Ouachita inhabited the shores of the Ouachita River that rises in western Arkansas and flows southeast into eastern Louisiana to become a tributary of the Red River. They aligned themselves with the Natchez Indians becoming members of the Natchitoches Confederacy
  • Fact 27 - The Pascagoula were a tribe indigenous to the coastal Mississippi on the Pascagoula River. According to legend the peace-loving tribe walked single file into the Singing River(now known as the Pascagoula River) because the local Biloxi tribe were planning to attack.
  • Fact 28 - The Quapaw Indians are also called the Arkansas Indians. The state of Arkansas was named after the Quapaw, who were called Akansea or Akansa, meaning "land of the downriver people"
  • Fact 29 - The Quinipissa were joined together with the Mougoulacha tribe. The tribes shared a village with the Bayogoula but in 1700 the Bayogoula massacred both the Quinipissa and Mougoulacha.
  • Fact 30 - The Souchitioni was a small tribe who aligned themselves with the Natchez Indians becoming members of the Natchitoches Confederacy
  • Fact 31 - The Tangipahoa lived north of Lake Pontchartrain. The Tangipahoa were closely related to the Acolapissa and both tribes eventually merged with the Houma tribe.
  • Fact 32 - The Tawasa were Muskhogean tribe located in the neighborhood of Tallapoosa river. Attacks by the Alibamu, Creek and the Pascagoula tribes forced them to seek an alliance with the French.
  • Fact 33 - The Washa were a small tribe occupying the seacoast of Terrebonne Parish who allied themselves and eventually merged with the French
  • Fact 34 - The Yatasi was another small tribe who aligned themselves with the Natchez Indians becoming members of the Natchitoches Confederacy
  • Fact 35 - Louisiana - The Indians of Louisiana were the Adai, Alabama, Apalachee, Atakapa, Avoyel, Bayogoula, Biloxi, Caddo, Chatot, Chawasha, Chitimacha, Choctaw, Houma, Koasati, Koroa, Mugulasha, Muskogee, Natchez, Okelousa, Opelousa, Ouachita, Pascagoula, Quapaw, Quinipissa, Souchitioni, Tangipahoa, Tawasa, Washa and Yatasi

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