FDI - Chitimacha

The Chitimacha were a sedentary hunter/farmer nation. They were located on Grand River, Grand Lake, and the lower course of Bayou La Teche in Louisiana. They suffered form wars with Whites and other tribes and barely escaped extinction.

Aboriginal Locations (# of Villages)

LA Bayou Lafourche, Grand Lake (16)

Present Locations

LA Chitimacha Reservation, Charenton

Tribal Communities of Biloxi-Chitimacha Confederation of Muskhogees

Year	*History*
1699	One of four tribes to make an alliance with Iberville
1702	St. Denis brought away 20 women and children in slaving raid against tribe, Bienville ordered slaved returned to tribe, order probably not executed
1706	Taensa invited tribe to come and eat corn of the Bayougoula, invitees attacked and enslaved
1707	Chitimacha killed missionary St. Cosme and three other Frenchmen in revenge raid; as a result, Bienville induced all of the southern Mississippi to declare was on the tribe; soon thereafter, a joint force of French and Indians destroyed a Chitimacha village, Chitimacha slaving continued though Chitimacha retaliations induced Bienville to sue for peace
1719	Tribe moved to Mississippi about Bayou Laforche
1764	Possibly joined by Taensa and Washa
1784	Hutchins described five Chitimaha villages in the vicinity of Bayou Lafourche and Bayou Teche
1882	Gatschet collected considerable vocabulary and cultural information
1971	Chitimacha tribe became federally recognized

Year	Total LA Population	Source
1650	3,000	Mooney estimate
1699	3,000	Beaurain/Swanton estimate
1700	3,000	NAHDB calculation
1758	400	LaHarpe estimate (extrapolation)
1784	200	Hutchins estimate (extrapolation)
1800	200	NAHDB calculation
1900	100	NAHDB calculation
1910	69	Census
1930	51	Census
1973	182	BIA
1981	278	BIA
1989	246	BIA
2000	700	NAHDB calculation
2004	725	University of Louisiana

Other speakers of the same language:

Chawasha, Washa

Chitimacha Sites:

Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw of Louisiana http://www.biloxi-chitimacha.com/

Chitimacha Authors http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t16

Chitimacha History http://www.dickshovel.com/chi.html

Chitimacha Indian History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/chitimacha/chitimachahist.htm

Chitimacha Indian Reservation and Museum http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/geninfo.php?locIndex=55048

Chitimacha Language http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/15/15-2675.html

Chitimacha Language http://www.native-languages.org/chitimacha.htm

Chitimacha Language http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=CHM

Chitimacha Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_lang_family.asp?code=CHM

Chitimacha Students at Carlisle Indian School http://home.epix.net/~landis/chitimacha.html

Chitimacha Tribe Consitution and By-Laws http://doc.narf.org/nill/Constitutions/chiticonst/chiticonsttoc.htm

Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana http://www.dol-louisiana.org/guessthe.html

Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana http://www.chitimacha.com/

Chitimacha Tribe Revives Long Dormant Language http://www.indianz.com/News/2004/006011.asp

Chitamacha, Washa, Chawasha & Yagenechito http://www.angelfire.com/realm/shades/nativeamericans/chitamacha.htm

Cypress Bayou Casino http://www.cypressbayou.com/

Indian Nations of Louisiana http://www.eatel.net/~wahya/tribes.html

Remnants of an Old Indian Tribe Documented http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues01/Co03102001/CO_03102001_Remnants.htm

Tribe Works to Keep Ancient Tradition Alive http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues02/Co03092002/CO_03092002_Chitimacha_Baskets.htm

*Ethnie:*	CHITIMACHA
*Language:*	Chitimacha
*Family:*	Chitimacha
*Stock:*	Tunica
*Phylum:*	Algic
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands
Speakers	Language extinct