8.17 c. Cheniere Caminada Hurricane
More than two thousand people across South Louisiana lost their lives in the Cheniere Caminada Hurricane, making it one of Louisiana’s deadliest storms.
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History
Chickasaw Wars
The Chickasaw Wars were a series of proxy wars between the Chickasaws and their British allies in South Carolina and Georgia against French Louisiana and its Native allies, principally from among the Choctaws.
History
Chinatown
For six decades straddling the turn of the 20th century, one of the very few Chinatowns in the South anchored members of New Orleans's Chinese-ancestry community.
Folklife
Chitimacha Baskets
Deeply rooted in the history, spirituality, and daily activities of the Chitimacha people, basketry remains a visible expression of the Chitimacha Indian tribe’s culture and tradition.
Peoples of Louisiana
Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana
The Chitimacha Tribe is the only federally recognized tribe in Louisiana to still occupy part of its ancestral territory.
6.8 a.-b., 6.9 g.-h. Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana
The Chitimacha Tribe is the only federally recognized tribe in Louisiana to still occupy part of its ancestral territory.
Peoples of Louisiana
Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb
The Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb is Louisiana’s second-largest tribe, with more than seven thousand enrolled citizens.
Disasters
Cholera in Louisiana
During the nineteenth century, cholera epidemics caused tens of thousands of deaths throughout the state of Louisiana.
Architecture
Chretien Point Plantation
Chrétien Point, the center of the Civil War's Battle of Buzzard's Prairie in 1863, is rumored to have been spared when its owner, Hypolite Chrétien II, gave the Masonic sign.
History
Christian Woman's Exchange
The Christian Woman's Exchange provided rooms for rent, consignment shops for income, and affordable lunches for women of every social class in New Orleans.
History
Citizens’ Councils
Citizens’ Councils were a loose network of white supremacist, segregationist organizations in the South that organized to preserve segregation.
Business & Industry
Citrus Industry
Louisiana’s citrus industry traces its origins to the early 1700s, but the effects of climate change increasingly threaten its long-term viability.
