The Houma are in a border conflict…
1700 CE
The Houma are in a border conflict with the Bayougoula over hunting grounds by 1700.
Mediation by Iberville’s brother, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, settles the conflict in March of this year.
The tribes place a great red pole in the ground on the bank of a bayou, at a place now known as Scott’s Bluff, establishing a new border between their peoples.
Called Istrouma by the natives and Baton Rouge by the French, this marker, some five miles above Bayou Manchac on the east bank of the Mississippi, is the site of modern Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
People
Groups
Natchez (Amerind tribe)
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Houma people (Amerind tribe)
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Choctaw (Amerind tribe)
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Chickasaw (Amerind tribe)
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Quapaw, or Arkansas (Amerind tribe)
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Caddo (Amerind tribe)
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Tunica people
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Yazoo (Amerind tribe)
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Koroa (Amerind tribe)
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New France (French Colony)
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New Spain, Viceroyalty of
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Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of
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Florida (Spanish Colony)
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France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of
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Carolina, Province of (English Colony)
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Louisiana (New France)
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