New Orleans Research

1. Creek/ Muscogee Indians

Their original hometown is what is now southern Tennessee, most of Alabama, western Georgia, and
parts of northern Florida. Most Muskogee were forcibly evicted by the federal government to Indian
Territory (now Oklahoma) during Trails of Tears in the 1830s.
2. New Orleans: festivals, gastronomy, historical background/sites foundation.
Festivals:
10/27/2022 - Top Taco 11/05/2022 - Zydeco & 12/24/2022 - Christmas Eve
Seafood Weekend Bonfires on the Levee
10/28/2022 - LGBT
Halloween New Orleans 11/06/2022 - Oak Street Po- 02/20/2023 - Zulu Lundy
(HNO) Boy Festival Gras Festival
10/29/2022 - Longue Vue 11/08/2022 - Hell Yes Fest 03/10/2023 - 2023 New
Fall Fest 11/12/2022 - Forestival: A Orleans Book Festival at
Celebration of Art and Nature Tulane University
10/30/2022 - Earth Fest Nola
11/26/2022 - Celebration in 03/11/2023 - Wander fest
11/03/2022 - 33rd New
Orleans Film Festival the Oaks 03/22/2023 - Tennessee
12/15/2022 - LUNA Fête Williams & New Orleans
11/04/2022 - Abita Fall Fest Literary Festival
11/05/2022 - Bayou 12/21/2022 - NOLA
Christmas Fest 03/31/2023 - Hogs for the
Bacchanal Cause

Gastronomy:

GUMBO
Locals would argue that gumbo is almost its own food group.
Learn what's in New Orleans gumbo, where to get it, and
recipes for how to make it.

CRAWFISH ETOUFFEE
One of the best reasons to visit New Orleans is Crawfish
Ettouffee. Try this traditional recipe at home.

JAMBALAYA
New Orleans is famous for a lot of foods, and chief among
them is the traditional rice dish known as jambalaya. Here's
where to get it.  
RED BEANS AND RICE
New Orleans has a tasty Monday tradition known as Red
Beans and Rice. Learn more about this traditional NOLA
dish and find a recipe to make it at home!

THE NEW ORLEANS MUFFALETTA

Try this Italian sandwich invented in New Orleans with
cured meats, cheese, olive dressing and great bread.

BEIGNETS
Beignets are more than just a doughnut! Learn the history
and then use our recipe to make them at home.

PO-BOYS
Do you want that dressed? Po-boys are stuffed and
slathered with sauce and served between two slices of
French bread. The bread is the most important part!

BANANAS FOSTER
Learn about the history of bananas foster in New Orleans
and then use this recipe to make it yourself!

SNOWBALLS
Every summer, mounds of shaved ice flavored with sweet
syrups appear. This affordable sweet treat is known as a
snowball (or sno-ball). Not a snow cone!

NEW ORLEANS KING CAKES

A look inside the history, traditions and culture around the
seasonal treat.

NEW ORLEANS PRALINES

Hand- made or store-bought, pralines are a unique candy of
the Crescent City loved by visitors and locals alike.
 CRAWFISH
Boil, peel and enjoy this favorite New Orleans seafood
specialty.

BBQ SHRIMP
Don’t let the name fool you - there’s no grill involved in this
iconic dish. Grab a bib and try this beloved (and messy) New
Orleans staple.

OYSTERS
You can’t come to New Orleans without trying some Gulf
oysters. Enjoy them fried, grilled, baked, raw and everything
in between.

Historical background/sites foundation:

During the first half of the 19th century, New Orleans became the United States' wealthiest and
third-largest city. Its port shipped the produce of much of the nation's interior to the Caribbean,
South America and Europe. Thousands of enslaved people were sold in its markets, but its free
Black community thrived.
3. Hernando de Soto

Hernando de Soto, a 16th-century Spanish explorer and conqueror, came to the West Indies as
a young man and made his fortune in the Central American slave trade. He provided ships for
Francisco on his Pizarro expedition to the south, and eventually he accompanied Pizarro on his
conquest of Peru in 1532. In 1538, seeking greater fame and fortune, de Soto embarked on a
major expedition to capture Florida in order to claim the Spanish crown. He and his men
traveled some 4,000 miles in search of wealth through what would become the southeastern
United States, repelling Native American attacks. In 1541, De Soto and his men crossed the
Mississippi River. Became the first European.

English Classwork Questions

 1. Which United States presidents order the removal of the creek Indians from their
homeland in the southeast
In the early 1800s, American demand for Indian nations' land increased, and momentum grew
to force American Indians further west. The first major step to relocate American Indians came
when Congress passed, and President Andrew Jackson signed, the Indian Removal Act of May
28, 1830.

2. Where were the creek Indians order to move?

They moved to Oklahoma in 1829, a larger party of about 1,200 Creeks emigrated to present-
day Oklahoma. Some of these Creeks were supporters of McIntosh; others were Creeks who
had previously resided on land that now belonged to Georgia. Still others felt threatened by
white settlers who illegally squatted on their land.

3. How many creek Indians died in a steam boat crash on the Mississippi river?
Some reports said 240, others about 360, while yet another report put the drowned at more
than 400. The most commonly quoted estimate, 311 Indians drowned, comes from the book
Indian Removal, by Grant Foreman.

4. In what year did the forced removal of the creek Indians end?
Some reports said 240, others about 360, while yet another report put the drowned at more
than 400. The most commonly quoted estimate, 311 Indians drowned, comes from the book
Indian Removal, by Grant Foreman.

5. All total how many creek Indians were forced to leave the southeast?

Between the McIntosh party emigration in 1827 and the end of removal in 1837, more than
23,000 Creeks emigrated from the Southeast.

Literary Terms

1. Imagery: Imagery is a literary device used in poetry, novels, and other writing that uses
vivid description that appeals to a readers' senses to create an image or idea in their
head. Through language, imagery does not only paint a picture, but aims to portray the
sensational and emotional experience within text.
2. Figurative language:
a. Personification 2ex: is a literary device that gives human characteristics to nonhuman
things or inanimate objects. (Lightning danced across the sky.) (The window howled in
the night.)

b. Onomatopoeia: is the forming of a word by imitating the sound the word is referring to,
as in bang, meaning “a loud, explosive sound,” and meow, meaning “the sound a cat
makes.”

c. Hyperbole:  is a rhetorical and literary technique where an author or speaker

intentionally uses exaggeration and overstatement for emphasis and effect.

d. Alliteration: is the repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in
succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse that gives a piece of writing a
lulling, lyrical, and/or emotive effect.

e. Simile:  is a literary device that compares two things in an interesting and vivid way.

f. Idiom 2ex: is an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in
having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements
(Under the weather.) (The ball is in your court.)

g. Metaphor 2ex: is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't
literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison. (Life is a highway.) (Her
eyes were diamonds.)