.LAFAYETTE, La.– At Vermilionville’s Native American Lifestyle Day party, Louisiana Indigenous American groups converged to spread awareness of the presence and heritages of their people.” All along these Bayou Teches, Ishaks along these waters,” pointed out Edward Chretien, Jr., Principal Main of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation, some of a number of tribes to take part on Indigenous United States Culture Day.Members of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation stood by a dining table full of artifacts of their history, being utilized to teach guests on their customs and culture.Pointing to the alligator head, Chief Chretien said “We used to make use of the alligator body fat, in those days, to wipe your physical body for the mosquitoes in the bogs of Louisiana … to put off the mosquitoes. You can easily envision just how they smelled, but that’s what they did.
It secured them,.” With individuals of all ages coming via the historical community, learning more about Louisiana’s native tribes, Principal Chretien said this activity gave him the opportunity to set up the identification of the Atakapa-Ishak Country.” It is actually time for the condition of Louisiana to recognize my people,” Principal Chretien stated. “That’s the only reason I’m doing this, and also I’m going to carry on performing this. It is actually not regarding me.
It concerns my Ishak blood.” Indigenous United States Society Day is among many annual events at Vermilionville that celebrate the societies that create South Louisiana what it is. To see what other celebrations and celebrations Vermilionville has showing up, see their website listed below.