Tunica-Biloxi: "no official recognition that would segregate [Tunicas]" (Marksville, 1890s–1981)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1890 · Places: Louisiana
SUMMARYTunica-Biloxi: "no official recognition that would segregate [Tunicas]" (Marksville, 1890s–1981) [Connections: Louisiana (deep), Nov 5, 2026]
RECORD64 Parishes (Michael T. Pasquier and John Barbry) says the Tunica have been at Marksville since the 1780s. It says an 1890s Louisiana Supreme Court ruling rejected the tribe's land claim because Interior "had no knowledge of any land set apart for the Tunica or any other Indians," and that a 1920 state court found "no official recognition that would segregate [Tunicas] from the rest of the population of the state." Federal recognition came in 1981
PATTERNThe state's own court said the Tunica had no separate legal status in 1920, the peak of Jim Crow. In Louisiana, anyone not recognized as Indian was sorted by color
LENS (WW9)In 1920 the court said no paper separated the Tunica from everyone else, and in Jim Crow Louisiana that meant the color line decided
OPENThe names and citations of the 1890s and 1920 cases; how Tunica children were classified for school before 1981