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ETHNOLOGY. — The Chitimacha of Bayou La Fourche, Louis- 

 iana. David I. Bushnell, Jr. Bureau of American 

 Ethnology. 



Early in the eighteenth century, when the Chitimacha first 

 became clearly known to the European colonists, they occupied 

 two groups of settlements within their rather small territory 

 just west of the mouth of the Mississippi. One group was in 

 the vicinity of Bayou Teche and Grand Lake, on and near the 

 site of the present town of Charenton, St. Mary parish, Loui- 

 siana, where some continue to dwell. The second group was 



