...Dave D. Davis Throughout the twentieth century, anthropologists and historians have regarded the Houma Indians of southern Louisiana as the descendants of the Houma Indians encountered along the Mississippi River by French explorers and settlers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oral...

...Jack Campisi; William A. Starna American Society for Ethnohistory 2004 Commentaries Another View on ‘‘Ethnogenesis of the New Houma Indians’’ Jack Campisi, Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center William A. Starna, State University of New York, College at Oneonta...

...Dave Davis American Society for Ethnohistory 2004 Fischer, Ann 1968 History and Current Status of the Houma Indians. In The American Indian Today . S. Levine and N. O. Lurie, ed. Penguin Books, Baltimore, md. Pp. 212 -35. Stanton, Max 1971 The Indians in the Grand Caillou-Dulac...

.... For example, in “Looking South,” Michael Dardar, former council member for the United Houma Nation, criticizes both efforts to gain federal recognition and economic development through gaming as inconsistent with what he calls “genuine sovereignty” (191). On the other hand, in “Seeking Prosperity and Self...

... Handcraft.”114 Although initially successful enough to attract Houma, Tunica-­Biloxi, and Choctaw participation, the tribal center closed after grant money became unavailable in the late 1970s and early 1980s.115 Overall, improved marketing and increased exposure from exhibits allowed Coushatta...