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

Swanaton, John W. The Indian Tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin #145

Tribes and Bands
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.

Chitimacha Reservation

Coushatta reservation

Penobscot Reservation

Pleasant Point and Indian Township Reservation

Tunica-Biiloxi Reservation

Agencies
Chactaw Agency

See Also:

Louisiana History

Louisiana Military