While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
H Louisiana Indian
Villages, Towns and Settlements
A complete listing of all the Indian
villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of
Mexico.
Hipinimtch (hipi 'prairie', nimtch 'road,
portage') .A former Chitimacha village on the w. side of Grand lake, at Fausse
Pointe, near Bayou Gosselin, La.
Houaneiha. An unidentified village or tribe mentioned
to Joutel (Margry, Dec., in, 409, 1878) in 1687, while he was staying
with the Kadohadacho on Red r. of Louisiana, by the chief of that tribe as being
among his enemies.
Houjets. An unidentified tribe containing 40 men
described as of fine stature, living on a branch of Red r. of Louisiana, 6
leagues from the main stream, at the beginning of the 19th century. Baudry des
Lozieres, Voy. a la Louisiane, 242, 249, 1802.
Huma (red). A Choctaw tribe living during the earlier
period of the French colonization of Louisiana, 7 leagues above Red r. on the E.
bank of the Mississippi, their settlement in 1699 containing 140 cabins and 350
families. A red pole (see Baton Rouge) marked the boundary between them and the
Bayogoula on the s. In 1706 the Tonika fled to them from the Chickasaw, but
later rose against them and killed more than half, after which the remainder
established themselves near the site of New Orleans. Later they lived along
Bayou La Fourche and in the neighborhood of the present Houma, La. , which bears
their name. They are now supposed to be extinct. See Gatschet, Creek Migr.
Leg., i, 113, 1884.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
