Trail of Louisiana Indians
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Trail of Trail of Louisiana Louisiana
IndiansIndians
Did you know…..• Did you know that
Louisiana had IndiansIndians long ago? The Native American Indians were the first people to ever live in Louisiana. They lived in this state long before white men settled here. The Indians taught the white men many things.
Early Native Early Native Americans moved Americans moved from place to place from place to place in search of food. in search of food. They hunted deer, They hunted deer, caught fish, and caught fish, and gathered plants.gathered plants.
Why did the Europeans come to
Louisiana?
Some came in search of treasure and some came for land.
Hernando de SotoHernando deSoto came for gold, but he did not find any.
Robert LaSalle came for land. He claimed Louisiana for France.
Robert LaSalle
piroguepirogue- a light boat made by
Indians
settlementsettlement- a place where people live.
chiefchief – leader of the tribe
Poverty PointPoverty Point – – was was built by Native built by Native
Americans Americans thousands of years
ago.
Today ridges or raised hills remain at Poverty Point.
Native Americans and Europeans shared ideas about how to grow crops.
Some present day Louisiana Native Louisiana Native
American TribesAmerican Tribes are:
Coushatta TribeCoushatta Tribe
Caddo Indian TribeCaddo Indian Tribe
.
Chitimacha TribeChitimacha Tribe
Choctaw Indian TribeChoctaw Indian Tribe
Natchez Indian TribeNatchez Indian Tribe
Caddo Indian TribeCaddo Indian Tribe
Caddo Indian TribeCaddo Indian Tribe
Live in the Northwest part of Louisiana.
Made houses out of grass and wood in the shape of a beehive.
Natchez Indian Tribe
Lived closed to the Mississippi River.
SlaverySome people who lived in the
colony of Louisiana came from Africa.
They were taken from their
homes and forced to come
here as slaves.
Slavery is a system in which people
are owned by other people and forced to work.
SlaveryThe first enslaved Africans were
brought to Louisiana in 1716.
Many brought special
skill with them from Africa, such as rice growing and shipbuilding.
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