In 1805, Dr. Sibley took the testimony of Francis Grappe about French settlements along the Red River in New Orleans Territory.

Marion Post (later, Marion Post Wolcott) was the first photographer to document the Cane River Creole culture of Louisiana.

The life of Polly Ann Colbert, a Chickasaw Free Woman, is a history lesson of Indian Territory.

The conflict between the American new-comers and the "old inhabitants" could be seen with the establishment of Fort Claiborne.

The French and Creole City of Natchitoches is the oldest colonial city in the Louisiana Purchase.

Fort Los Adaes near Robeline, Louisiana was once the capital of Spanish Texas.

The village of Natchitoches welcomed Fort St. Jean Baptiste in the early 18th century.

Annotated editorial from the Chicago Tribune to provide some context about slavery in the Choctaw Nation.

n 1940, photographer Marion Wolcott of the Works Progress Administration visited Natchitoches, Louisiana along the Cane River.

The Chickasaws witnessed a land and genealogical invasion by Texans in the early 20th century.

A description of the fur trade in Louisiana during the French colonial era.

The Coincoin-Prudhomme house along the Cane River in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana was documented by the Historic Buildings Survey in...

Sometime in the 1990s, the federal program called Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the Coincoin- Prudhomme home along the Cane...