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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 .
Red River Parish (French: Paroisse de la Rivière-Rouge) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,620, [1] making it the fourth-least populous parish in Louisiana. The parish seat and most populous municipality is Coushatta. [2]
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 .
Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes, which are equivalent to counties, and contains 304 municipalities consisting of four consolidated city-parishes, 64 cities, 130 towns, and 106 villages. [2] Louisiana's municipalities cover only 7.8% of the state's land mass but are home to 46.4% of its population. [1]
Population figures for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before European colonization have been difficult to establish. Estimates have varied widely from as low as 8 million to as many as 100 million, though many scholars gravitated toward an estimate of around 50 million by the end of the 20th century. [1] [2]
The population decrease in Louisiana is largely attributed to a high number of residents moving out of the state, and a low number of residents moving to the state. In fact, between 2020 and 2023 ...
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.
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