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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. There is also a tribal medical facility, fitness center, and event center.
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]
In 1972, the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana achieved state-recognition as a tribe. A year later it gained federal recognition. The tribe has acquired 685 acres (2.77 km 2) of reservation near its historical 18th and 19th-century homeland. This land is held in trust on the tribe's behalf by the United States Department of the Interior. [5]
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
Koasati (also Coushatta) is a Native American language of Muskogean origin. The language is spoken by the Coushatta people, most of whom live in Allen Parish north of the town of Elton, Louisiana , though a smaller number share a reservation near Livingston, Texas , with the Alabama people.
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 .
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