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The music of Louisiana can be divided into three general regions: rural south Louisiana, home to Creole Zydeco and Old French (now known as cajun music), New Orleans, and north Louisiana. The region in and around Greater New Orleans has a unique musical heritage tied to Dixieland jazz, blues, and Afro-Caribbean rhythms.
The Lernaean Hydra in Greek and Roman mythology was the creature Heracles killed in the swamp near Lake Lerna. [ 5] The skunk ape is a horrible-smelling large ape creature said to live in swamps in the Southeastern United States. [ 8] The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp was the subject of a hoax in South Carolina in the late 1980s.
The Chitimacha were the first Native American tribe in Louisiana to gain federal recognition. Most Native Americans of the Southeast had been forcibly removed to Indian Territory or Texas west of the Mississippi River during the 1830s. [10] The tribe received some annuities and financial benefits as a result of formal recognition.
The Bayogoula (also known as the Bayagoula, Bayagola, or Bayugla [1]) were a Native American tribe from Louisiana in the southern United States. John Reed Swanton translated the name Bayogoula to mean " bayou people" and wrote that they lived near Bayou Goula in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. [2] Their name has been written as Bayou Goula .
In usage in the Southern United States, a bayou ( / ˈbaɪ.uː, ˈbaɪ.oʊ /) [ 1] is a body of water typically found in a flat, low-lying area. It may refer to an extremely slow-moving stream, river (often with a poorly defined shoreline), marshy lake, wetland, or creek. They typically contain brackish water highly conducive to fish life and ...
Golden Meadow. Bayou Lafourche ( / ləˈfuːʃ / lə-FOOSH[ 1] ), originally called Chetimachas River[ 2] or La Fourche des Chetimaches, [ 3] (the fork of the Chitimacha ), is a 106-mile-long (171 km) [ 4] bayou in southeastern Louisiana, United States, that flows into the Gulf of Mexico. The bayou is flanked by Louisiana Highway 1 on the west ...
Bayou Teche (Louisiana French: Bayou Têche) is a 125-mile-long (201 km) [1] waterway in south central Louisiana in the United States. Bayou Teche was the Mississippi River 's main course when it developed a delta about 2,800 to 4,500 years ago.
30°01′38″N 90°04′58″W. / 30.0272°N 90.0827°W / 30.0272; -90.0827. Bayou St. John ( French: Bayou Saint-Jean) is a bayou within the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. [ 1] The grand Bayou St. John in 1728. The Bayou as a natural feature drained the swampy land of a good portion of what was to become New Orleans, into Lake ...