In the late 1960's and 1970's, tales of nearby Indians were abundant in the southwest Louisiana area.  Jack Bonnin, a Jefferson Davis Parish educator and administrator living in Welsh, who had a curiosity about these stories and their veracity, scoffed at these tales until a resident who lived some miles south of Welsh showed him many of the arrowheads he had found when plowing a field near his home.  This farmer claimed that he and others had picked them out of their tractor treads and had sometimes used the points as chips when playing poker.



Jack had already done some exploring with some high school students along the lower Lacassine Bayou where there were elongated, raised banks of shell with vegetation on top - "middens" - that they found containing off bits of ceramic, sometimes decorated, which seemed to be broken pottery.  There were also, a bit below the midden surface, signs of fire pits, pieces of bone and small pieces of stones with chipped edges or points, indicating the presence of Native-American occupation at a far earlier time.