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The Chitimacha (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ t ɪ m ə ʃ ɑː / CHIT-i-mə-shah; [1] or / tʃ ɪ t ɪ ˈ m ɑː ʃ ə / chit-i-MAH-shə [2]) are an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands in Louisiana. They are a federally recognized tribe, the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana. The Chitimacha have an Indian reservation in St. Mary Parish near Charenton on ...
Chitimacha (/ ˌ tʃ ɪ t ɪ m ə ˈ ʃ ɑː / CHIT-i-mə-SHAH [4] or / tʃ ɪ t ɪ ˈ m ɑː ʃ ə / chit-i-MAH-shə, [5] Sitimaxa [6]) is a language isolate historically spoken by the Chitimacha people of Louisiana, United States. It became extinct in 1940 with the death of the last fluent speaker, Delphine Ducloux.
In the 1830s, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe's ancestors moved to Isle de Jean Charles to escape the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears. [8] By 1910, the island had grown from 16 to 77 families. [9] The population of Jean Charles sustained themselves through fishing, oyster farming, trapping and subsistence farming. In the 1930s, a ...
The island was the refuge for a band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe after being displaced by Indian Removal Act-era policies and remains the epicenter for the tribe's traditions. Since ...
The Atchafalaya Basin Mounds (variously known as the Patterson Mounds, Patterson site, Moro Plantation Mounds [1] and as the protohistoric village of Qiteet Kuti´ngi Na´mu by the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana [2]) is an archaeological site originally occupied by peoples of the Coastal Coles Creek and Plaquemine cultures beginning around 980 CE, [3] and by their presumed historic period ...
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
Christine Navarro Paul (December 28, 1874 – 1946), a member of the Native American Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana, was a celebrated basket maker and teacher.. Beginning in her 20s, she led the efforts of the Chitimacha women to create and sell beautiful woven baskets made from dyed wild river cane.
The Plains Indians culture area is to the west; the Subarctic area to the north. The Indigenous people of the Eastern Woodlands spoke languages belonging to several language groups, including Algonquian, [2] Iroquoian, [2] Muskogean, and Siouan, as well as apparently isolated languages such as Calusa, Chitimacha, Natchez, Timucua, Tunica and ...