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The tribe owns and operates the Coushatta Casino Resort in Kinder, Louisiana. The casino is home to the Koasati Pines golf course. The casino operates 8 restaurants and 4 hotels, and is the largest casino in the state. The casino employs over 2500 local residents, and it is one of the top five largest private employer in Southwest Louisiana. [9 ...
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
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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Kinder, a small town in Allen Parish, Louisiana, is about 20 miles north of where the helicopter went down. According to his Facebook profile, Savant owned Savant Auto in Kinder.
David Sickey – Vice Chairman, Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; Melanie Sloan – Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) Peter Stone – Author, Heist: Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff; Froilan Tenorio – Governor, CNMI (1994–1998) Neil Volz – Former Chief of Staff to Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH)