In a message dated 8/5/2002 8:19:13 AM Central Daylight Time, mlee@uwf.edu writes: > "The Louisiana Supreme Court decision in the case of Adele v. > Beauregard in 1810 explicitly stated that American Indians were persons > of color, and this classification was accepted as valid throughout the > nineteenth century. This meant that until 1870 when antimiscegenation > statutes were repealed by Reconstruction governments, marriages between > Indians and whites were prohibited. Hello Marcie, I've come across several marriage records of Indians to Europeans in the Natchitoches registers which D'Antoni published in 1970 and there is the marriage of my ggg grandfather Bernardo Bourgeois to Isabella Rosa Favre around 1823 or 1824 which apparently was recorded in the Archdiocese of New Orleans but which occured in Mississippi, I think. While Louisiana law was surely different than Mississippi law after 1803 both Mississippi and New Orleans came under the Archdiocese of New Orleans, I think, so it gets confusing. Thanks for posting this. John Craven New Orleans