Church of St. Anne (Mother Church of Caddo Adai Indians)

The Adai were part of the Caddo world, and their name comes from the Caddo word hadai, brushwood. Disease, war and alcohol cut them down; by 1778 they were almost gone, and around 1792 fourteen Adai families moved to Presidio San Antonio de Béxar. John Swanton wrote that they had merged entirely with the other Caddo. The State of Louisiana later recognized the Adai Caddo Indians of Louisiana, based in Robeline, whose mother church this is.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Los Adaes State Historic Site — 5.1 mi
  The Spanish presidio that was the capital of Texas from 1729 to 1770, some 15 miles from French Natchitoches, now an archaeological site where Native pottery is the most abundant find.
• Natchitoches Historic District — 12 mi
  The riverfront blocks of the oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana Purchase, founded in 1714 at a Natchitoches village, with a brick-paved Front Street, Cane River frontage and the largest bousillage construction in the South.
• Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site — 12 mi
  A reconstruction of the 1716 French fort beside the Natchitoches village, with a palisade of nearly 2,000 pine logs, a chapel and storeroom, and living-history programs, open Wednesday to Sunday.
• Fort Jesup State Historic Site — 14 mi
  The 1822 army post Zachary Taylor built to hold the Neutral Ground between Louisiana and Spanish Texas, with the one surviving kitchen, a reconstructed officers' quarters and a museum open Friday to Sunday.

More markers nearby

• Saint Tekakwitha Plaque and Statue — steps away
• The Presidio Nuestra Senora del Pilar de los Adais — 5.4 mi
• Los Adaes — 5.9 mi
• Site of Camp Salubrity — 11 mi