Lake Pontchartrain (Images of America)

Evidence of Tchefuncta Period Native Americans

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The photograph shows Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers during the 1940's finding evidence of Tchefuncta period Native Americans near the lake, two miles from the Lakefront Airport which was then called “Shushan Airport”. (Courtesy of the New Orleans Public Library.)

    

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