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In the 20th century, the Coushatta people in Louisiana began cultivating rice and crawfish on tribally owned farms on the reservation, where most of the current population resides. An estimated 200 people of the tribe still speak the Coushatta language. In the early 21st century, fewer young people are learning it, so the tribe is working on ...
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.
The Alabama–Coushatta Tribe of Texas is headquartered in Livingston, Texas. They operate as a tribal council, with a Principal Chief and Chief serving as advisors to an elected tribal council comprising a chair, vice-chair, and five additional members. [2] The tribe's constitution and by-laws were adopted on June 16, 1971. [15]
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 .
The Coushatta claim was disputed by white settlers in 1859. When the Coushatta lost the land claim, the Alabama invited them to live on their land claim. The federal government approved a large grant in 1928 to purchase additional land near the reservation; [7] it was granted to the "Alabama and Coushatta tribes." Since that time, the ...
In more recent years, the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe has relied on the service and entertainment industry to generate revenue and jobs on the reservation. In 2002, the Tribe opened a convenience store, gas station and tobacco store on U.S. Highway 190, which can sell products tax free because of the tribe's sovereign status.
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.