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However, researchers and locals understand that the origin of tamale culture in North Louisiana can be traced back to the Spanish fort and settlement of Los Adaes.

People in the Zwolle-Ebarb area have been making tamales since at least the 1720s.

New Spain sent settler and soldier families from central Mexico who brought the metate and the tamale foodway with them to Northwest Louisiana.

Therefore, the connection to the Mississippi Delta tamale is tenuous at best.

Tamales in the Mississippi Delta have only been recorded since the late nineteenth century.