La Veillée

Grand Bayou: The Last Indian Village on the Water

The French language in Louisiana is most heavily associated with the Cajun and Creole parishes of Southwest and Central Louisiana, but there are other Francophone communities scattered throughout the State. In this episode, we visited one such community in the far Southeast of the State, near the mouth of the Mississippi in Plaquemines Parish. We learned from residents of the Grand Bayou Indian Village, accessible only by boat, about their unique Indigenous and French roots and their contemporary cultural, environmental, and economic challenges.