From Bayou Teche to Fifth Avenue Vani Rao School leaders and district leaders

School leaders and district leaders

and calls on educators to improve the odds for every young person

Illustrative case vignettes are featured throughout

and equips them with the skills

his poetry and diary

From Bayou Teche to Fifth Avenue Vani Rao School leaders and district leadersDaniel H. Usner offers a cultural, political, and social history of the Chitimacha Tribe in South Louisiana and its struggle for political sovereignty. Between the 1890s and 1940s, Chitimacha Indian women in South Louisiana with extraordinary baskets they created from rivercane strategically built a network of allies that originated in a relationship with neighboring white women and that would eventually extend across the United States. Responding