1.8 f. Bread Pudding
Recipes for this baked dessert can turn stale bread into a delicious treat.
Spanish Colonial Period
Spanish Colonial Period Index
Folklife
Brown Pelican
Declared locally extinct in 1963, the brown pelican population rebounded in the state due to efforts by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
History
Bulbancha
An Indigenous name for the area most often known in English as New Orleans.
Art
C. R. Parker
A Connecticut native, C. R. Parker was working as an artist in Louisiana, where he received a commission for several large portraits for the state capitol.
Architecture
Cabildo
The Cabildo, one of three eighteenth-century structures that anchor New Orleans's Jackson Square, stands as a visual monument to Spanish rule in Louisiana.
1.8 d. Cabildo
This historic building in New Orleans has played an important role in Louisiana’s government and is now a museum.
Peoples of Louisiana
Caddo Nation
Caddo people began to inhabit the Red River valley approximately 2,500 years ago.
7.10 d.-e. Caddo Nation
The Caddo people, who began to inhabit the Red River valley approximately 2,500 years ago, were eventually pushed out of their traditional territory by Anglo-American immigrants.
Folklife
Cajun Folklife
Cajun folklife is a field of study that describes, catalogs, and deciphers meaning within the vernacular culture of Acadian refugees who settled in Louisiana.
Music
Cajun Music
Cajun music is a genre that arose in southwestern Louisiana from the Francophone folk music traditions of the Acadians.
1.8 b. Cajun Music
Louisiana’s Cajun music has been influenced by a rich blend of musical traditions.
History
Cajuns
Cajuns are the descendants of Acadian exiles from what are now the maritime provinces of Canada–Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island–who migrated to southern Louisiana.
