CHOCTAW-APACHE TRIBE

LOUISIANA

The Choctaw-Apache Tribe is located in Northwestern Louisiana on the banks of the Toledo Bend Reservoir. We are twenty-one families, most of whom have lived in the area since the early 1720's. We maintain a tribal office west of the town of Zwolle, and host an annual traditional powwow the first weekend in May of each year.

Historically, thirteen of our families were associated with the mission and presidio of Los Adaes which was located some thirty miles to our east. After being forced by the Spanish crown to move from Los Adaes to San Antonio in 1778, the families made their way back as close as east Texas and resettled the abandoned mission at Nacogdoches. It was only a matter of time before those families and eight others resettled their ancestral lands on the east side of the Sabine River in what was to become Sabine Parish between 1835 and 1870.

Today, there are 1100 enrolled members who still live within a fifteen square mile area that has been home to many since before first European contact in the 1720's. Across the country, another 1600 non-resident members live from coast to coast and from border to border.

AMERICAN MOTORCYCLES CLIVR

Member, National Congress of American Indians