Native Americans of Louisiana

Tribe Regions Classes Clothing Shelter Foods Customs Resources Interesting Fact Cultural: Hunters and Men: Breech cloths Brush Shelter: Fish, oysters, Made pottery and Natural Gas Oil Men had Mohawks Atakapa Cajun Country warriors Women: Wrap (Grass and Reeds shrimp, crab, deer, bows and arrows Rice Cattle and both men and Natural: around skirts and around a wooden alligator, fruits, women had tribal Prairie moccasins frame) nuts, honey tattoos Sportman’s Chief Men: Breechcloths Tall beehive shaped Corn beans Pow-Wows dances Salt mines cotton Tribal tattoos painted Caddo Paradise Hills Council of Warriors leather leggings, grass houses with a pumpkins storytelling Natural Gas Forest faces beaded Shortleaf pine Women: Poncho palisade for sunflowers deer Religious rituals products Dairy ornaments Red River Valley tops and wrap protection fish cornbread Longleaf pine around skirts soups and stews Buffalo Robes

Cajun Country Chiefs and religious Men: Breech cloths Cane wood Bear and fish corn Drum beating Cane Reed Basket weaving Chitimacha Greater New leaders Women: Wrap palmetto leaves shellfish story telling Shellfish No written language Orleans Central government around skirts and built in or near Basket weaving Fish oil stone fur Saltwater and led by Grand Chief moccasin rivers in villages Freshwater Great New Orleans Chiefs were always Men: breech cloths Plaster and river Corn beans squash Lacrosse swimming Forest Products Storytelling Choctaw Miss. Floodplain men Women: : Wrap cane walls with sunflowers deer foot racing Poultry Dairy Traditional medicine Flatwoods around skirts thatched roofs turkey rabbit Strawberries Artwork beading Sassafras tea Crossroads Priest and chiefs Men: Breechcloths Plaster and river Maize deer rabbit Basket weaving Forest Products They raised cattle, Coushatta Longleaf pine leather leggings, cane walls with Rice crawfish Animal dolls rice crawfish they were also rice flatwoods Women: poncho thatched roofs Pecans Beef Cattle and crawfish farmers tops and wrap around skirts Cajun Country and Male and Female Men: Breechcloths Palmetto houses Corn pumpkins Dancing Crafts Shrimp fish Temple where bones Houma Great New Orleans chiefs leather leggings, with a sapling beans small game Well organized oysters oil Beef of chiefs were Miss. Floodplain Crawfish was their Women: wrap frame religion Cattle Dairy burned in a sacred Salt and Freshwater totem around skirts Horses Clay fire ponchos in winter King (Great Sun) Men: breech cloths Adobe houses with Corn beans Spear game Tribal Tattoos Natchez Mississippi Council of Warriors, Women: : Wrap thatched roofs pumpkins squash (Chunkey) Men ate Pottery baskets and Floodplain and priests around skirts turkey fish before women woodcarvings cornbread hominy soups Crossroads War chief Men: Breechcloths Thatched houses Corn beans Weaved baskets and Soybeans Tribal tattoos Tunica- Miss. Floodplain Peace chief leather leggings, surrounded by pumpkins blankets sugar cane Fought with clubs or Biloxi Rattlesnake was Women: poncho palisades persimmon bread Pottery Aqualculture knives totem tops and wrap fruits nuts and woodcarvings Oil around skirts mushrooms deer moccasins turkey cornbread soups