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The United Houma Nation of Louisiana
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The United Houma Nation of Louisiana
What the Houma face today
- Oil companies and the destruction of our land
Education, Poverty & Health Issues
- Segregation in the 1960's
- Lack of funding
- Destruction of waterways contributing to health and poverty
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History
Cultural Revitalization
- 300 years ago in Baton Rouge
- Encroachment of French settlers
- Move to coastal areas
- LaFourche, Orleans & Plaquemines Parish
Arts
Louisiana, The Houma & the French
Language:
One: Tcafa
Two: Toklu
Three: Totcenu
Living off the land
- Language
- Mon Cheri
- Mon Cher
- Religion
- Culture
Living in the swamps
History continued
- Experts at using everything in the swamps:
- Medicine
- Bogbean
- Sundews
- White Willow
- Clothes
- Garfish Scales
- Skins
- Official contact: LaSalle in 1682
- Louisiana Indians Walking Along a Bayou (A. Boisseau
Our Focus Today
Our Land, Our Culture, Our Heritage
Living in the Swamps
- Food
- Vegetation
- Seafood
- Shelter
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