a NATIVE AMERICAN article

Cultures of Acadiana
a look at the French, Cajun, Creole, and Native American cultures of south Louisiana
(a project of Carencro High School - 721 West Butcher Switch Road, Lafayette, LA  70507)

from
CHITIMACHA NOTEBOOK
Writings of Emile Stouff--A Chitimacha Chief

Previous Publications About the Chitimachas


  • Hoover, Herbert T. The Chitimacha People.  Phoenix: Indian Tribal Series, 1975.
  • Kniffen, Fred. The Indians of Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Bureau of Educational Materials, Statistics and Research, College of Education, Louisiana State University, 1965.
  • Orso, Ethelyn and E. Charles Plaisance. "Chitimacha Folklore," Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, Vol. III, No. 4 (1975 for 1973), pp. 35-41.
  • Stouff, Faye.  The Chetimachas of Charenton. Booklet published by Lafayette Natural History Museum, 1974.
  • Stouff, Faye and W. Bradley Twitty. Sacred Chitimacha Indian Beliefs. Pompano Beach, Florida: Twitty and Twitty, Inc., 1971.
  • Swanton, John R. Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and the Adjacent Coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institute, Bureau of American Ethnography, Bulletin 43, 191 1; Reprinted 1970, Johnson Reprint Corp.
  • Taylor, Gertrude. "Early History of the Chitimacha," Attakapas Gazette, vol.  XVI, no. 2 (Summer 1981), pp. 65-69.