Basket Diplomacy Oral History Collection

This collection of oral histories collected by Dr. Denise Bates in 2015 and 2016 to research for her 2020 book, Basket Diplomacy: Leadership, Alliance-Building, and Resiliance among the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, 1884 - 1984. This collection is made up of oral histories of majority tribal members and political partners for the period of re-recognition in the early 1970s.