Rose Fisher Greer and her daughter are two people keeping the basket weaving tradition alive, WWNO reported. They are part of the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians in Louisiana, and Greer learned the ...

The Jena Band of Choctaw Indians actively ... including basket weaving. Located in Allen and Jefferson Davis Parishes, the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana is known for their Koasati language ...

(April 17, 2024) When she was 15, Greer took a class on basket weaving from a man ... Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma. The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana started growing its own ...

But the indigenous people started adopting metal and ceramic containers, which were easier to get, and the weaving was put up for sale. So once they couldn't identify a basket as authentic because ...

If you live in Louisiana, there are plenty of festivals to attend even in fall, from a Tunica-Biloxi basket weaving summit to Dia de los Muertos and, of course, Halloween. But first, how do you ...

“Instead of prizes we gave them for tossing a turkey into a basket as we have done in the ... set up just after the weaving station. “We had each child pick a noun and a verb, and that is ...