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avoyellestoday.com The Avoyelles Journal is a free independent weekly newspaper serving Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana , United States. It is published on Sundays and has circulation of around 17,000. [ 1 ]
Native Americans occupied this area beginning around 300 BC. Varying indigenous cultures flourished there in the following centuries. Today on the banks of the old Mississippi River channel in Marksville, three large burial mounds have been preserved from the Mississippian culture, which flourished especially along the upper Mississippi, the Ohio River and other tributaries, from about 900 AD ...
The Avoyel language may have [7] been related to the Natchez language. [8]Described by some historians as being a Caddoan group, [9] and by others as a Natchez-speaking group of Mary Haas' Gulf hypothesis [3] [10] along with the Natchez and Taensa; their true linguistic and ethnic affiliation is somewhat uncertain because no written or spoken version of their language has survived.
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The archaeological site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964. [2] [5]The site was formerly operated by the State of Louisiana as a Louisiana State Park, however, in August 2020, the ownership and operations of the site transferred to the City of Marksville.
The Greenhouse site is an archaeological site of the Troyville-Coles Creek culture (400 to 1000 CE) in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.. Greenhouse is the most extensively excavated Troyville-Coles Creek site in Louisiana.
Donald Elliott "Doc" Hines (November 14, 1933 – June 18, 2019) was an American family physician in Bunkie [1] in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, who was from 1993 to 2008 a member of the Louisiana State Senate for District 28. [2]