Louisiana Creole people
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Casquette girls, or Filles du Roi were girls sent to New France as wives for colonists. In Louisiana, they became known as Pelican girls.
A Choctaw chief
Louisiana Indians walking along a bayou (Alfred Boisseau, 1847)
A Choctaw Eagle dance
Creoles of color
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The Creoles of color are a multiracial ethnic group of Louisiana Creoles that developed in the former French and Spanish colonies of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, and Northwestern Florida
Louisiana Creole people
…Irish, Germans, and Italians, also married into the Creole group. New Orleans, in particular, has always retained a significant historical population of Creoles of color, a group mostly consisting of free persons of multiracial European, African, and Native American descent. As Creoles of color had received higher rights…
Creole cartoonist George Herriman
Portrait of a Creole woman in a red tignon c. 1840, painted by Jacques Amans
Portrait of Marianne Celeste Dragon in 1795, painted by José Francisco de Salazar y Mendoza.
Barney Bigard, noted jazz clarinetist long a part of Duke Ellington's orchestra