The short portage between Bayou St. John and the Mississippi — the reason New Orleans is where it is — was a Native route that Bienville's men were shown in 1699.
Myer's plate covers eastern Louisiana at a small scale. The Chitimacha, Tunica-Biloxi, Coushatta and Jena Band of Choctaw are Louisiana's federally recognized tribes. What sources describe their routes?
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