Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rose Fisher Greer, one of the only basket weavers left in the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, holds a piece of river cane in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Saturday, the 62nd annual Miss Louisiana pageant drew to a close, with a new winner being crowned and preparing to compete in ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Rose Fisher is looking for river cane. “The cane has a sound to it. It makes that perfect sound that it’s ready to use,” said Fisher. Fisher is an elder with the Jena Choctaw ...

The business is called Cane River Pecan Co., yet it's located in New Iberia. How does that happen, when the Cane River flows through Natchitoches Parish? Well, it used to flow through the parish. It's ...

NATCHITOCHES, La. - It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Natchitoches and it's not even Thanksgiving yet. But that's expected since the oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana Purchase ...

Bruno Sagrera, a sixth generation Choctaw farmer is propagating river cane to help bring it back on his urban farm in Abbeville, LA. (March 15, 2024) Rose Fisher Greer and her daughter are the only ...

RIVER CANE (WVUE) - In central Louisiana, the U.S. Forest Service is spearheading efforts to restore river cane, a bamboo-like plant that played a vital role in Native American culture for thousands ...

Gabrelle McLeod, Miss Cane River, won the Miss Louisiana 2025 title. McLeod will compete in the Miss America pageant in January. The top five finalists included Felicia McGill, Chanley Patterson, Anna ...