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CHITIMACHA NOTEBOOK Writings of Emile Stouff—A Chitimacha Chief

Edited by Marcia Gaudet

Lafayette Natural History Museum and Planetarium Lafayette, Louisiana 1986

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Emile Stouff, Chief of the Chitimachas

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Chitimacha Chief Benjamin Paul and the Chitimacha children are pictured with a pirogue near the Chitimacha reservation in Charenton. The little girl is Jane Bernard Wilson, the boy in the center is Arthur Darden, and the boy sitting in the pirogue is Gabriel Darden.

(M.R. Harrington, 1908. Photo courtesy of Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation)

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