Louisiana Indians in the 21 st Century. By Dayna Bowker Lee. Louisiana is home to more American Indian tribes than any other southern state. Four federally recognized sovereign nations, as well as 10 tribes recognized by the state of Louisiana and four tribes without official status, enrich our state with their history, culture, and artistic traditions.
Filed under: New Orleans (La.) New Orleans City Guide (1938), by Federal Writers' Project (multiple formats at archive.org) Filed under: New Orleans (La.) -- Cultural policy. Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2009), ed. by Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez (HTML at Michigan).
Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection. This map, dated 1765, shows the Louisiana Territory as claimed by France. F rench colonial Louisiana refers to the first century of permanent European settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans contributed to the development of a complex frontier society at the geographic nexus of the Americas.
Race and Ethnicity by Neighborhood in New Orleans There are 71 neighborhoods that are fully or partially contained within New Orleans (66 fully and 5 partially). This section compares the 50 most populous of those to each other, New Orleans, and other entities that contain or substantially overlap with New Orleans.
It occurred to me, in California in June and in Atlanta in July and in New Orleans in August, in the course of watching first the California primary and then the Democratic and Republican national conventions, that it had not been by accident that the people with whom I had preferred to spend time in high school had, on the whole, hung out in gas stations.
Today many rice farmers grow crawfish alongside their rice crop. The muddy ponds rice is grown in are a perfect environment for crawfish. Demand for crawfish has grown so high that crawfish farming is now required for meeting consumer need. Roughly 90% of all crawfish coming from Louisiana is farmed.
New Orleans likes to stay up late. The city that is the birthplace of jazz and cocktails and hosts Mardi Gras every year is no sleepy head. While music is the local language any time of the day or night, come sundown in New Orleans, opportunities to listen and dance to live music and catch cabaret shows are in every nook and cranny.