Indian Village

Choctaw people had been moving into Louisiana from Mississippi since the mid-1700s, partly to ease tension between groups allied with the French and those allied with the English. The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma's history says the largest Louisiana Choctaw populations today descend from 18th-century settlements in Rapides Parish and on the Ouachita River. Families hunted and traded game, farmed corn, pumpkins and potatoes, and sold cane baskets and medicinal plants to plantations and markets, a trade women dominated. The Jena Band of Choctaw in La Salle Parish is a descendant community.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 16 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.
• Masur Museum of Art — 17 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.
• Eddie G. Robinson Museum — 18 mi
  A state museum in a former women's gymnasium at Grambling State University, on the 408-win coach who sent more than 200 players to the pros.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 21 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.

More markers nearby

• Restoration Park — 14 mi
• Doug Duffey — 15 mi
• First Southern Pine Fourdrinier Kraft Linerboard in United States — 15 mi
• The Twin City Jamboree — 15 mi