Louisiana Indians Walking Along a Bayou by Alfred Boisseau, 1847
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Bayou St. John was originally inhabited by the Acolapissas tribe before their relocation to today's Mandeville due to raids on their village by Chickasaws. The Biloxi tribe occupied the area by 1700. The final nation that settled on or around the Bayou St. John area was the Houmas, who lived near present day St. Louis Cemetery No. 3 as late at 1720.
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The Geological Formation of the Metairie-Gentilly Ridges
As the Mississippi River flows to the Gulf of Mexico it brings sediment and silt with it, depositing them along the banks of the river and creating new land masses. Before the US Army Corps of Engineers took control of the river to allow for the…