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Celebrate Cajun food and culture, help clean up downtown Houma or sample unlimited crawfish at weekend events in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.
The Houma (/ ˈ h oʊ m ə /) are a historic Native American people of Louisiana on the east side of the Red River of the South.The United Houma Nation Inc., who identify as descendants of the Houma people, have been recognized by the state as a tribe since 1972, but are not recognized by the federal government.
The parish seat of Houma was named after the Houma people.The native word houma means red, and the tribe's war emblem was the crawfish.Historians say the Houma are related to the Muskogean-speaking Choctaw, and migrated into the area from present-day Mississippi and Alabama.
West of Houma on U.S. Route 90 29°35′19″N 90°49′23″W / 29.5886°N 90.8231°W / 29.5886; -90.8231 ( Orange Grove Plantation Houma vicinity
This is a complete list of National Historic Landmarks in Louisiana,.. The United States National Historic Landmark program is a program of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance.
The house and what was left of the property was finally purchased by Dr. George B. Crozat in 1940. Crozat began an ambitious program of restoration of the house and gardens. In the process he stripped off some of the original decorative elements of the interior and exterior to give the house a simpler, "Federal style," look.
In 1959, Daigleville Indian High School in Houma, 25 miles (40 km) inland from the Isle de Jean Charles, became the first Indigenous high school in Louisiana. [10] Until 1953, when the road that connects the island to the mainland was built, the tribe could commute to and from the inland only by boat.
Originally dubbed La Capitale Mondiale de l’Écrevisse, by its French-speaking residents, Breaux Bridge was officially designated the "Crawfish Capital of the World" by Bob Angelle, then serving as Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Breaux Bridge hosts an annual Crawfish Festival.