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!
Doustioni. A tribe, formerly living on Red river of Louisiana, that from its
proximity to the Natchitoches and the Yatasi was probably kindred thereto and
belonged to the Caddo confederacy. The people are mentioned by Joutel, in 1687,
as allies of the Kadohadacho. Pénicaut, in
1712, met them with a party of Natchitoches, and remarks that for the 5 years
previous they had been constantly wandering, and living by the chase
(Margry Dec., v, 488). Their warriors at that time
numbered about 200. The cause of the abandonment of their village is unknown,
but when in 1714 they accepted the invitation of St Denys to settle near the
Natchitoches, and seed was given them, they seem to have returned to their
agricultural and village life. In 1719 La Harpe speaks of them as numbering 150
and dwelling on an island in Red river not far distant from the French post
among the Natchitoches. If any survive they are merged with the kindred Caddo in
Oklahoma.
