Now about that time, Negro slaves were brought into the South. The white plantation owners brought black slaves and began to let the Indians go as they were not too good at work. So the free Indians had no place to go but back to the Indian reserve with their half breed French and Indian. It was assumed that is how the Chitimachas got their names until today. Some of the ones that had escaped started to come back and some did not. Some remained in Plaquemine where some of them still show the Indian trace. Of course, they are whites today. And that is how we of today are descendants of that bunch of Indians. There is no record of how many there were. We are a small tribe today. Now there is not much said about the Chief. It seems like they lived without a chief until the late 1700’s when one Chief, Soulier Rouge, seems like he acquired a pair of red shoes. Somehow the French started calling him Soulier Rouge. His first name was Eugene. Nothing was said about his reign. Only when he died, his squaw took over (Euginie) and that is when the land started to disappear. She seems to be one of those Indians that lick white man’s boots just to be with them. It is recorded that she sold Rose Pecot 610 acres for $9.00 per acre and a man by the name of Alex Frere 640 acres of land. The record shows that some of the money was divided among some Indians at $40.00. That is the way it was recorded in the Court House. The names on the record do not jive with any name of the now Chitimachas. Somebody gave her an old Mexican silver crown for a large acreage, but we cannot find out where, but we have the crown. And it is recorded that in 1817 they leased 610 acres of 99 years. That was 168 years ago. It is also recorded that land was sold the same year it was leased—which the sale is no good. Now my lawyer told me that after the lease expires it cannot be re-leased by the same party.