The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: Louisiana

  • Looting in Plain Sight

    For the current possessors of plunder, repatriation does not appear to be a topic of discussion.

  • Tribes without Federal Recognition

    Federal recognition would cost us money, and we can’t have that, now, can we?

  • Is Environmental Regulation Good?

    A statistical paradox both fascinating and heartbreaking.

  • The Creepy Concept of Covenant Marriage

    This seems like a disturbing, backward trend.

  • A Forgotten Catastrophe

    Once upon a time, there was a beautiful lake…

  • The Mysterious Melungeons

    There is a group of people in Eastern Tennessee whose ancestry is said to date back in this country to the late 1700’s. At the time there was talk of people who lived in the forests as Indians, but who looked European and spoke a broken form of Elizabethan English. Their descendants are called the…

  • Lagniappe

    For those of you who have never been to New Orleans, allow me to introduce you to the world’s most delightful custom: Lagniappe. This word came to the English language via the Louisiana French by way of the Spanish Creoles from the Quechua word yapay. Whew! The fact that it managed to survive so many…