Coushatta

This article describes Native Americans whose language is found under Coushatta (language) and the city in Louisiana under Coushatta (Louisiana) .

Seal of the Coushatta

The Coushatta (also Koasati , Coosauda or Quassarte ) are a North American Indian people who mainly live in the US state of Louisiana .

history

The Coushatta have always been arable farmers. They grew corn and other crops and supplemented their diet with hunting . Starting in 1763, many Coushatta and their related and allied Alabama moved from their former tribal areas due to pressure from the European settlers to what is now Texas, where they now together form the 1987 federally recognized Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas . Those Coushatta ( Koasati , Coosauda or Quassarte ) and Alabama who stayed behind fought as members of the Creek Confederation (also Muskogee) against the USA . They lost all of their land in the Treaty of Fort James Jackson in 1784 . Most Alabama and some Coushatta accompanied the Muskogee to Oklahoma, where their descendants live today as a federally recognized tribe of the Alabama Quassarte Tribal Town . In the 20th century, they began growing rice and raising crayfish on tribal land . They are also known for their basket weaving .

language

The Coushatta language belongs to the Muskogee family and is still spoken, although fewer and fewer young people are learning it in the early 21st century.

Today's tribes and groups of the Coushatta

Today there are three federally recognized tribes by the Bureau of Indian Affairs :

• Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana (administrative seat in Allen Parish north of the city of Elton in Louisiana, reservation: approx. 2.77 km², approx. 650 tribal members)
• Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas (together with the Alabama the approx. 1,137 tribe members live in the approx. 18 km² reservation near Livingston in Texas)
• Alabama Quassarte Tribal Town (the 350 tribal members now live together with the Alabama in Oklahoma with the administrative headquarters in Wetumka)

Movie

• Rediscovering America: The Legends and Legacy of Our Past, part 2: Indians Among Us (1992). Production and Direction: Jonathan Donald; written by Roger Kennedy. Discovery Communications, Inc.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Homepage of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas
2. ^ Howard N. Martin: Alabama-Coushatta Indians. In: Handbook of Texas Online. ( online , accessed September 28, 2013). Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
3. ^ Homepage of the Alabama Quassarte Tribal Town

See also

List of North American Indian tribes

Web links

• Homepage of the Sovereign Nation of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana
• Homepage of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas