SUMMARY"The Sabines": sociologists label Houma descendants a "tri-racial" group (Louisiana coastal parish, 1950) [Connections: Gulf, Louisiana, Texas & Mexico, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDVernon J. Parenton and Roland J. Pellegrin, in Social Forces 29:2 (December 1950), pp. 148–154, wrote about a group "derisively called the 'Sabines,'" ranging "in color from brown to near white," "of mixed white, Indian, and Negro ancestry," whose Indian element "is derived from a variety of these Muskhogean tribes, but principally from the Houmas." The title calls them "Racial Hybrids."
PATTERNMid-century academics took Houma people and filed them under a slur and a "hybrid" label instead of their nation's name
LENS (WW9)The scholars renamed them too, and the Houma Nation became "Sabines" and "hybrids."
OPENThe fetched page does not name the parish, so confirm it is Terrebonne from the full article
SOURCEParenton and Pellegrin, "The 'Sabines'" (Mixed Race Studies). The "hybrids" language is the source's own.