Indigenous Peoples of Louisiana

Tribes and Bands of Louisiana
The following list of tribes is compiled from:


 * Hodge, Frederick Webb.Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin #30 1907
 * Swanton, John W. The Indian Tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin #145

Acolapissa, Adai, Alabama, Atakapa, Avoyel, Bayogoula, Biloxi, Caddo, Chatot, Chawasha, Chitimacha, Choctaw, Coushatta, Doustioni, Houma, Kadohadacho, Koasati, Koroa, Mugulasha, Muskogee, Natchez, Natchitoches Confederacy, Ofo, Okelousa, Opelousa, Ouachita, Pascagoula, Quapaw, Quinipissa, Souchitioni, Taensa, Tangipahoa, Tawasa, Tensas, Tunica, Tunica-Biloxi, Washa, Yatasi

Reservations
Reservations were established by treaty, with westward expansion and settlement occured. Tribes ceded land and were removed to restricted and reserved land. Reservation names in bold are current reservations. As identified in the National Atlas of the United States of America, only the Chitemacha Reservation is a current federally-recognized reservation:

Chitemacha Reservation (Federal, under jurisdiction of Choctaw Agency, Tribe: Chitimacha)

Coushatta Reservation (State, under jurisdiction of Choctaw Agency, Tribe: Coushatta)

Penobscot Reservation

Pleasant Point and Indian Township Reservation

Tunica-Biloxi Reservation (State, under jurisdiction of Choctaw Agency, Tribe Tunica-Biloxi)

Agencies
Chactaw Agency, 421 Powell, Philadelphia, MS 39350

Available Records at the Family History Library
Office of Indian Affairs Superintendency of Trade Natchitoches - Sulphur Fork Factory 1809-1821 T 1029  1st film 1025158

See Also:
Louisiana History for a calendar of events

Louisiana Military for a list of forts