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The Coushatta (Koasati: Koasati, Kowassaati or Kowassa:ti) are a Muskogean-speaking Native American people now living primarily in the U.S. states of Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. When the Coushatta first encountered Europeans, their Coushatta homelands where in present-day Tennessee , Georgia , and Alabama .
The Coushatta Indian Reservation is located on 154-acres in Allen Parish, Louisiana.Approximately 400 people lived on the reservation in the 1990s. [2] The reservation has a tribal police department, fire department, and court house.
The state of Louisiana is home to four federally recognized Native American tribes, the Chitimacha, the Coushatta, the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, and the Tunica-Biloxi. [ 1 ] References
Coushatta is a town in, and the parish seat of, rural Red River Parish in north Louisiana, United States. [2] It is situated on the east bank of the Red River . The community is approximately 45 miles south of Shreveport on U.S. Highway 71 .
Facing increasing encroachment by European-American settlers, some of the Quassarte and Alabama peoples moved into Louisiana and Texas in the late 18th century and early 19th century. These emigrants and their descendants formed what are today the federally recognized Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana and the Alabama–Coushatta Tribe of Texas. [4]
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Louisiana was the last state to issue same-sex marriage licenses in 2015 after a landmark Supreme Court decision to allow same-sex marriage in all 50 U.S. states. Red River Parish was the final holdout of Louisiana's 64 parishes when it continued to deny marriage licenses after 63 other parishes began doing so in late June 2015.
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