200 Years Ago This Month

            A young French soldier named Michel Pierre Nicholas Dardar came to Louisiana, escaping from the failed effort of Napoleon to quell the slave uprising on the island of Haiti. Tribal oral history hints that he may have traveled here with Jean Lafitte.

            Once in Louisiana he found his way to the Houma Indian community and soon fell for a young Indian girl named Adelaide Billiot.

            On September 28^th, 1809 they were married by Henry Schuyler Thibodaux on Bayou Terrebonne.

            Between 1811 and 1827 they were blessed with eight children; Genevieve, Raimond, Leopold, Charles, Ignace, Eugene, Marcellin and Rosalie.

            This is the origin of the Dardar family within the Houma Nation.