POST-CONTACT PEOPLEHOOD: History, Kinship, and Redefining Louisiana Creole Indigeneity

Anumpa nan anoli sυ’bυnna. This is a story of a People. People I call ancestors, family, and my community. People I love. Our Creole¹ identity and culture has been defined, redefined, and historically written about. It has been mythologized, exoticized, eroticized, and the victim of binary southern structures and hypodescent (Jim Crow).² Moreover, there has been an overwhelming focus on New Orleans³ and often an overlooking of other Louisiana Creole communities and their connections to tribal populations in the state of Louisiana. It is certainly a complex and evolving culture. But what is key is it is a culture, one