Mamou is located at the heart of Louisiana's Cajun country.

Cajun Jambalaya originates from Louisiana's rural, low-lying swamp country where crawfish, shrimp, oysters, alligator, duck, turtle, boar, venison, nutria and other game were readily available.

Creoles, Amerindian ethnic groups such as the Houma, Chitimacha, Pointe-au-Chien, Bayougoula, Tunica-Biloxi, Atakapa, Opelousa, Okelousa, and Avoyel, through their cohabitation in south Louisiana's parishes eventually became proficient in Cajun French.

* 2007-The Cajun Advanced Picosatellite Experiment ( CAPE ) successfully launches the State of Louisiana's first university student built satellite.

In South Louisiana's Creole and Cajun cultures, debris refers to chopped roast beef.

At the time, few people outside America's Deep South had any awareness of Louisiana's Cajun culture or its unique culinary traditions.

Although Cajun and Creole cultures dominate south Louisiana's cultural landscape, other important ethnic groups in the region include African-Americans, Native Americans, Isleños Americans, German Coast settlers and various immigrant groups, including Vietnamese, Laotians, Filipinos and a growing number of Hispanics.

Louisiana's Creole population, made up of mixed African, French and Anglo heritage, had developed a form of dance music known as la la.

In 2009, Natalbany was among the first communities in Louisiana to get Louisiana's new black-and-white state highway shields.

" He also saw no difference between Louisiana's definition of first-degree murder and Texas's definition of capital murder.

May 2012 saw the passage of Louisiana's 2012 Coastal Master Plan, a comprehensive 50-year document that lays out a suite of projects designed to slow and ultimately reverse coastal land-loss.

Benjamin and Rillieux became quite good friends, possibly due to their similar social situation ; they were both considered outsiders in Louisiana's very class-conscious society.

Louisiana School for the Deaf offers a comprehensive pre-K – 12 education for Louisiana's deaf and hard-of-hearing children ages 3 – 18 at no cost to their families.

What would become the Plessy case began when a group of prominent black leaders in New Orleans organized a " Citizens ' Committee " in September 1891 to challenge Louisiana's 1890 law intended " to promote the comfort of passengers " by requiring all state railway companies " to provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing separate coaches or compartments " on their passenger trains.

However, northern Louisiana's lasting contribution to the world of popular music was the radio program " The Louisiana Hayride ", which started broadcasting in 1948 on KWKH in Shreveport.

He and his record shop are important pieces of Louisiana's music history.

* Gumbo Radio, " Louisiana's music and then some "

Out of college, he joined the law practice of David C. Treen, who would become Louisiana's first Republican congressman and governor since Reconstruction.

In an interview on National Public Radio, Canada's Ambassador to the United States said that in addition to the basic desire to help a neighbor in need, many Canadians also remember the ancestors of Louisiana's Cajuns were expelled from what would become Canada by the British in the 18th century, which he felt gave an extra historical dimension to Canadians ' desire to help the people of Louisiana during the recovery operation.

LaPlace was settled as a farming village in the 18th century during Louisiana's French colonial era.

In October that year, the University of Southwestern Louisiana's Alumni Association, Athletic Association, and its band named Polycarp the first " Mr. Acadiana ," an honor it bestowed annually during the school's homecoming football game to the USL alumnus who best " fosters the tradition and the ideals of the school and of the area.

Because of the free blacks ' contributions during the Natchez War, the French allowed them to join Louisiana's militias, which gave them more connections into the colonial society, where they achieved an independent social status between the French colonists and slaves.

In his college career, Bako caught for the Ragin ' Cajuns during two consecutive conference championship seasons: 1991 in the American South Conference, when they finished with a 49 – 20 record, 14th-best among Division I squads ; and 1992 in the Sun Belt Conference, when Southwestern Louisiana's pitching staff amassed a 3. 50 earned run average, 29th-best in Division I.

In 1976, he was elected as Louisiana's member of the Democratic National Platform Committee where he offered numerous conservative proposals during the committee's meetings in Washington.

* 1866 – New Oreleans, Louisiana's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.

In a similar case arising from Louisiana's interposition act, Bush v. Orleans Parish School Board, 364 U. S. 500 ( 1960 ), the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of a federal district court that rejected interposition.

Louisiana's highest recorded temperature is in Plain Dealing on August 10, 1936 while the coldest recorded temperature is at Minden on February 13, 1899.

* The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820 – 1860 by Richard Follett Louisiana State University Press 2007.

Similarly, virtually all members of LAMP have also resigned from the Louisiana Psychological Association ( LPA ) after many LPA members asserted that the LAMP's prescriptive authority movement secretly came to an agreement with Louisiana's medical board to transfer the practice of psychology for psychologists with prescriptive authority to the medical board.

The state of Washington, adopted a system virtually identical to Louisiana's in 2008, which came into effect after legal difficulties in 2010.

* December 12 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds a lower Federal Court ruling that the State of Louisiana's laws on racial segregation laws are unconstitutional, and overturns them.

* June 4, 1812 – Following Louisiana's admittance as a U. S. state, the territory by that name is renamed the Missouri Territory.

* June 4 – Following Louisiana's admittance as a U. S. state, the territory by that name is renamed the Missouri Territory.

Although Spain's presence in the area had been sporadic, the French created a deep-sea port at Dauphin Island and founded French Louisiana's capital at Mobile, a few miles north of Mobile Bay on the Mobile River in 1702.

Despite being surrounded by Anglo-Saxon Common Law territories, Louisiana's civil code has kept its Roman roots, and some of its aspects feature influences by the Napoleonic Code, but remains based more on Roman and Spanish civil traditions.

Today, the Cajuns make up a significant portion of south Louisiana's population, and have exerted an enormous impact on the state's culture.

Incorporated in 1817, Baton Rouge became Louisiana's state capital in 1849.

Terrebonne parish still accounts for over 20 % of Louisiana's seafood production.

Tensas was hence the last of Louisiana's sixty-four parishes to enfranchise African-Americans.

Together with the parishes of Saint Helena and Tangipahoa, Livingston Parish forms Louisiana's 21st judicial district.

* Henry E. Hardtner, lumberman known as " Louisiana's first conservationist ", member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature, La Salle Parish police juror, founder of Urania

* William J. Jefferson, convicted felon, former U. S. representative from Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District, was born in Lake Providence.