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

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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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