Folklife
Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Mardi Gras in New Orleans is celebrated by costumed revelers, krewes, floats and flambeaux, parades, and masked balls.
U.S. Territorial Period
U.S. Territorial Period Index
History
Marie Laveau
Marie Laveau was a free woman of color born in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Laveau assumed the leadership role of a multiracial religious community for which she gave consultations and held ceremonies. During her time, she was known as "The Priestess of the Voudous"; among many other colorful titles.
Archaeology
Marie Thérèse Coincoin
Coincoin, a formerly enslaved woman freed in colonial Natchitoches, is an icon of American slavery and Louisiana’s Creole culture.
Art
Matthew Jouett
Matthew Harris Jouett was recognized during his lifetime as the first notable American artist to emerge from the American frontier.
Government, Politics & Law
Napoleonic Code
The French Civil Code of 1804 standardized civil law in France, becoming a model legal framework for jurisdictions around the world, including Louisiana.
C.9 j. Napoleonic Code
The French Civil Code of 1804 standardized civil law in France, becoming a model legal framework for jurisdictions around the world, including Louisiana.
6.10. d. Napoleonic Code (French Civil Code)
France’s Civil Code of 1804 standardized civil law and became a model legal framework around the world, including in Louisiana.
Peoples of Louisiana
Natchez Indians
The Natchez are an American Indian group that lived along the Lower Mississippi River during the rise of European colonialism.
6.8 a.-b., 6.9 g.-h. Natchez Indians
Both French and British colonists sought alliances with the Natchez Indians, an American Indian group with settlements along the Lower Mississippi River.
Foodways
Natchitoches Meat Pies
Natchitoches’s savory hand pies are filled with a mixture of ground pork and beef in a seasoned gravy.
Art
Native American Basketry
A hallmark of southeastern Indian societies, cane basketry traditions persist in fewer than ten contemporary tribal communities in the southeastern United States, including three in Louisiana.
Archaeology
Native American Mounds
Louisiana boasts some of the most significant Native American earthen monuments in North America and ranks second only to Mississippi in the number of mound sites.
