Native Waters: A Chitimacha Recollection

The Chitimacha, the 1,000-member tribe known as "the People of Many Waters," are heirs to an unbroken 8,000-year past. Living off the bounty of Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin, this indigenous nation persists and rejuvenates its culture despite gradually losing its ancestral territory to environmental and man-made forces. Author Roger Stouff, the son of the last chief of the Chitimacha Indians and a keeper of his family's oral tradition journeys into sacred places of the Atchafalaya Basin and shares native stories, beliefs and perspectives about this often overlooked people.

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