St. Mary Archives - 64 Parishes

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.

Dayna Bowker Lee

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.

Dayna Bowker Lee

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.

Dayna Bowker Lee

Well known in for his audaciously decorated home and lawn, David Butler fashioned whimsical, brightly painted assemblages from salvaged roofing tin to become one of the twentieth century's most widely collected self-taught artists.

Tom Patterson

Disasters

Hurricane Gustav

Hurricane Gustav was the first major storm to test New Orleans’s rehabbed defenses after Hurricane Katrina.

Liz Skilton

Government, Politics & Law

Mike Foster Jr.

Murphy J. "Mike" Foster Jr., the 53rd governor of Louisiana, served from 1996 to 2004.

Ron Thibodeaux

Government, Politics & Law

Murphy J. Foster

Democrat Murphy J. Foster was an attorney, a Louisiana state senator, state governor, and US senator.

Miriam G. Reeves

Architecture

Oaklawn Manor Plantation

Oaklawn Manor, on Bayou Teche, was originally owned by Irish-born lawyer Alexander Porter whose ancestry gave this area the name Irish Bend.

Karen Kingsley

Literature

Rachel O'Connor

A pioneer planter in what is now West Feliciana Parish, Rachel O'Connor wrote more than one hundred letters describing antebellum plantation life in southern Louisiana.

Sara Brooks Sundberg