Desadier School For Native Americans

The history of the school at the Pace Recreation Center is the Butte Tribe of Bayou Bourbeaux's own, handed down in oral tradition. The tribe says it kept its identity private for generations, then announced itself publicly on April 6, 2019. In 2023 the Bureau of Indian Affairs logged the tribe's petition for federal acknowledgment as number 402, and a notice of receipt ran in the Federal Register. The petition remains in process, and the tribe is not federally recognized.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site — 8.6 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.
• Natchitoches Historic District — 8.7 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.
• Cane River Creole National Historical Park — 11 mi
  Oakland and Magnolia, two Cane River cotton plantations kept as they stood, told through the enslaved families who worked them, the 1864 and 1804 freedom seekers and the tenant farmers who stayed into the 1960s.
• Melrose Plantation — 16 mi
  The Cane River estate built on land granted to Louis Metoyer, son of Marie Thérèse Coincoin, with the Yucca House and African House, later an artists' retreat; guided tours Thursday to Sunday.

More markers nearby

• Site of Fort Selden — 6.7 mi
• Natchitoches Indians — 8.0 mi
• Louis Juchereau de St. Denis (1676-1744) — 8.0 mi
• Roque House (circa 1797) — 8.0 mi