Observed arrival · 2026-10-16
Before 1764: Louisiana was already here
A sourced timeline and reporting project traces Louisiana’s Creole, African, and Indigenous foundations, then examines how the state’s culture came to be framed as Cajun.
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- Readers of Louisiana Creole and state history
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- Its 1971 dispatch says the original House resolution naming 22 parishes is not online, and that the project is seeking it.
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The homepage divides its history into eight chapters, including “The silencing,” “The name,” and “The market,” with questions guiding each section. Dispatches pair named writers and Louisiana locations with topics such as records, culture, tourism, and events. The page also gives a Census ACS 2016–2020 basis for its ancestry figure and identifies its visitor-spending figure as statewide spending in 2024.
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