Native Waters: A Chitimacha Recollection | 2011
There are different means of knowing and remembering, and they are not mutually exclusive. Through a small tribe known as “the People of Many Waters,” this high definition Louisiana Public Broadcasting documentary offers an alternative way of recalling Native American history - Chitimacha history. "Native Waters: A Chitimacha Recollection" is the story of these Native Americans who are among the first people of Louisiana and heirs of an unbroken 8,000 year past in their native coastal region of the Atchafalaya Basin of Louisiana. Living off the bounty of one of the richest inland estuaries on the continent, this indigenous nation persists and rejuvenates its culture while losing its ancestral territory to forces other than conquest. Through "Native Waters: A Chitimacha Recollection", we journey into sacred places of the Basin with author and keeper of his family’s oral tradition Roger Stouff, a fisherman descended from “a long and distinguished lineage of fishermen within a nation of fishermen,” as he provides native stories, beliefs and perspectives about this important and often overlooked people.
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This documentary from March 22, 2011, features Roger Emile Stouff, a member of the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana, recounting the history and traditions of his tribe. It follows Stouff as he fishes in the Atchafalaya Basin, the ancestral home of the Chitimacha. It also touches on: the importance of fishing and the Atchafalaya Basin to the Chitimacha people; their oral tradition; their efforts to preserve their history; the threat of coastal erosion to the Atchafalaya; and the tribe’s efforts to remain connected. This program also includes interviews with Dayna Bowker Lee, a historian and ethnographer, and Kimberly Walden, the cultural director of the Chitimacha tribe.
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I think this may be one of the most beautiful films ever recorded. Amazing to see Dr. Lee speak. Previously I had only read her works so it means a lot to me to put a face with her name. Thank yall for producing this beautiful work.
I wish the government would give back lands to our other Native Nations. It sickens me to see how oppressed they are.The government should use its powers to restore what they STOLE
@metamodernsounds283
3 жыл бұрын
It was conquered not stolen
@qtfiles1265
3 жыл бұрын
@@metamodernsounds283 Same thing... I wasn't theirs to begin with no matter how you frame it.
@qtfiles1265
3 жыл бұрын
Well as the world turns. You reap what you sew. They will not exist in this country in the next hundred years or so. They will be the minority in the next 20 years.
@metamodernsounds283
3 жыл бұрын
@@qtfiles1265 it’s a dog eat dog world unfortunately. Survival of the fittest especially when you have firearms
@highestgood5169
2 жыл бұрын
Me too. I would go back to Acadie. Canada doesn't allow citizenship to any descendant from Acadie. Some came down to Louisiana and had mixed with the M'iq M'hak and Huron. I am just learning about the Louisiana Cajuns in more depth.
But the original dark skin ones was kicked out the tribe.
@chocolateradiance7216
Жыл бұрын
They aren't black..if you are looking for black Indians you need to do your own research of course they were enslaved by the French too so..
This is such a good documentary. Very interesting! Thank you for putting it on KZread for the public to be able to glean from.
This story is so sad and has been repeat so often in history with other indigenous people. What most people don’t get is how much we lose as humans when we lose are cultures. Unfortunately as I see it the world as a whole is losing there cultures and customs and it’s not making us better people. I know here in the USA people don’t stay together as a Community or a family. We are becoming more and more A nation of solitary people. That doesn’t make for a good community it makes us more of a selfish community and only care about the individual self.
@pragmaticcrystal
Жыл бұрын
💯💛
Explains why my uncle, great uncle love to fish so much.
Most fun I ever had in my life was fishing 🎣 in Louisiana
Very nice. Very sad. Enlightening, educational and hopefully inspirational. Thank you Roger. From your friend Lotech Joe.
Is this story based from one persons point of view? My Grandmother Father was CHITIMACHA! We grew up in Jonesville Louisiana.
Some curiosity questions. How did they deal with controlling mosquitoes? How did they treat poisonous snake bites? What medicines did they get from that environment like with plants?
@LAURA093058
Жыл бұрын
Garlic for mosquitoes.
Thank you for the beautiful stories! Keep the history and culture of the Chitimacha alive.
Beautifully done. I get it. I am a Louisiana Walden and didn’t know of Native Americans named Walden. I know of few Europeans with then Walden name in Louisiana. I’m from Port Arthur TX. Raised by my German Baptist grandmother from Grant Louisiana on the Ouiski Chitto. I live on ma Cajun Grand mere land next to Lacassine Refuge on the Mermentau River. I’m a city girl moved to the wilderness. I’m a Baptist raised anti Catholic who had a Catholic grandmother and living in a Catholic community. I’m raised in a German/English way living in a Cajun French culture. I can only imagine how the Native Americans might struggle with the modern world and their ancestry. The North Louisiana whites and South Louisiana whites don’t always mix well. I’m learning to balance everything and it is what it is. Louisiana is such a gumbo of culture.
My great great grandfather was the last chief of this tribe
Good casino too. But I have to dislike casino. It's not good for the community.
My great grandmother was chitimacha.. but she married a Creole.. and for some reason you guys don't respect my family..I live in Berkeley. But I know where I come from. You guys are so racist!! I wish I wasn't chitimacha
@Redred24765
3 жыл бұрын
STOP CRYING 🤦🤦
@chocolateradiance7216
Жыл бұрын
You look black to me..
@timwarcloud
Жыл бұрын
BAAAHAAA 🤣
@josephinetracy1485
8 ай бұрын
@@timwarcloud Stop it. He's hurting.
$5.00 Indians. Smh.
I see Chinese and Caucasian mixed people.
@stormy-le6pb
Жыл бұрын
@Rachel Nan Giovanni wrote 2 King Francis 1 in 1524, that, 'From what we could tell from observation, N the last two respects they resemble the Orientals, particularly those from the farthest Sinarian regions'. The N.A. race R their own unique ppl that originated on the American continent & Negro R their own unique ppl of the Negro race, that R descendants of imported Nigerian, Igboo that A.A.blacks R. Thats why Chitimacha look Oriental, they R Mongoloid not Negroid..
@stormy-le6pb
Жыл бұрын
@Rachel Nan Chitimacha like other tribes do marry non-Indians, so many R part Caucasian & part African. There R Chitmacha that had babies with A.A.'s too. Every Indian tribe N the U.S, have many mix-bloods N their tribes. It can't B helped, Bcuz tribes can't force their members 2 just marry tribal members.
@ROYALPURPLE-fr1bo
5 ай бұрын
@@Paper_Chasin_Indianfacts!
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Black Creole chitimacha.. you don't want to recognize..I know who my people are and have continued to get rid of black chitimacha indian..how dare you!
@prophetesssunshinegoddess3598
3 жыл бұрын
Yes brother we do know who our people are. I can wait to go back home to Louisiana. My mom left for texas long ago. But she told us our history. She is 80yrs old today. And still, speak of family. I am mixed with different types of Indians. Plus Scottish and French-run through my veins. They tried and still do till this day. But my mother told us to marry an Indian.
@stormy-le6pb
Жыл бұрын
@@prophetesssunshinegoddess3598 Did U marry an Indian?
@prophetesssunshinegoddess3598
Жыл бұрын
@@stormy-le6pb Never married.
@stormy-le6pb
Жыл бұрын
@@prophetesssunshinegoddess3598 My mother told me the same thing, to marry an Indian, & I did.
@timwarcloud
Жыл бұрын
BAAAHAAA 🤣
Otoe Kickapoo Pawnee Shawnee
5 dollar indian no movement your a albion
@Redred24765
3 жыл бұрын
Wanna be us LOST N FOUND😅😅😅🤡🤡
Plant trees
🧢🧢🧢ain’t no white indigenous ppl…. Smh