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Unit IV Outline

Introduction - The State of Our Lives: Being a Louisiana Neighbor

Lesson 1: Louisiana's Major Folk Regions

Lesson 2 Geography, Ecology, and Folklife

Lesson 3 Sense of Place

Unit IV Resources

 

Atchafalaya Basin Annual Cycle


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TEXT-FIGURE 32. Annual cycle of folk activities in the Atchafalaya Basin.

(Used with permission from Geoscience Publications, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University-
Atchafalaya Swamp Life: Settlement and Folk Occupations by Malcom L. Comeaux, 1972).

 

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