Kinder High School is a senior high school (grades 9–12) in Kinder, Louisiana . It is a part of Allen Parish Public Schools .
31-547: The first school for white children in the area was established in the Green Oak community, located north of modern-day Kinder and just west of what would become the Coushatta Casino Resort . The school, a one-room plank house, was established around 1890 with a Professor Philbrick as its first schoolmaster. School in those early years was typically held in the three hottest months (June, July, and August) so that students on
62-403: A glottal stop between vowels. Koasati has low [ ` ], high [ ´ ], and high rising–falling [ ˇ ] pitch accents , as well as a fourth unmarked mid-level tone. All noun roots must have one high-pitch accented syllable. The location of the accent depends on the properties of the penultimate syllable. With a few exceptions, the accent falls on the final syllable unless the penultimate syllable contains
93-571: A long vowel. These pitch accents can be contrastive, as with sakihpǫ́ 'It is a mink.' and sakíhpǫ 'It is not air-dried.'. Pitch placement on verbs is motivated by morphology. Most indicative verbs take the high accent, though a few take the low accent. Intensive verbs take the high rising–falling accent. Koasati is a polysynthetic language with fairly extensive verbal prefixing and suffixing. Two sets of prefixes mark noun possession in Koasati. The am -set generally identifies alienable possession and
124-404: A relatively small set of kinship terms and body parts, while the ca -set identifies inalienable possession and most kinship terms and body parts. These prefixes mark person and number on possessing nouns as follows: Kimball identifies the following position classes for prefixes and suffixes that can be added to Koasati verb roots: Unlike its frequently used cognates in other Muskogean languages,
155-466: Is based on Kimball's work. Kimball describes what is normally the close-mid back vowel /o/ as "high back" vowel, hence its placement in the chart below. He notes that /o/ sometimes has the allophone [u] and is raised to [ʊ] in closed word-final syllables. In 2007, the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana developed and approved its own orthographic system. In this system, long vowels are written by doubling
186-637: Is most closely related to the Alabama language but, though the Coushatta and Alabama have historically lived near each other, their languages are no longer mutually intelligible without extensive exposure. The language is also related to the Mikasuki language ; some native speakers of Coushatta report they can understand Mikasuki without previous exposure to the language. Koasati has three vowels, all of which occur as short and long and can be nasalized. The following chart
217-563: Is spoken by the Coushatta people, most of whom live in Allen Parish north of the town of Elton, Louisiana , though a smaller number share a reservation near Livingston, Texas , with the Alabama people. In 1991, linguist Geoffrey Kimball estimated the number of speakers of the language at around 400 people, of whom approximately 350 live in Louisiana. The exact number of current speakers
248-621: Is unclear, but Coushatta Tribe officials claim that most tribe members over 20 speak Koasati. In 2007, the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana , in collaboration with McNeese State University and the College of William and Mary , began the Koasati (Coushatta) Language Project as a part of broader language revitalization efforts with National Science Foundation grant money under the Documenting Endangered Languages program. Koasati
279-737: The Allen Parish School Board at the church building and named the Morehead School, after a prominent local Black family. Solomon Cole, who had attended the Tuskegee Institute and Southern University was named principal. The Morehead School closed in 1938. In 1945, a training school for Black elementary school students was opened in Kinder while students in grades 5-12 were bused to the segregated schools at Pecan Grove and Oberlin . In 1949, Kinder's first segregated Black high school
310-478: The Muskogean languages . An estimated 200 people spoke the language in 2000, most of whom lived in Louisiana. Historically, the language was spoken exclusively among tribal members and was never written down. In 2007, along with McNeese State University , the tribe received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for documenting endangered language (DEL); this provided necessary resources to document and preserve
341-632: The 1968-69 school year. Kinder's high school played a key role in the United States military's preparedness for combat in the run-up to World War II . The United States Army held in August and September 1941 a series of exercises called the Louisiana Maneuvers , designed to evaluate U.S. training, logistics, doctrine, and commanders. Some 400,000 troops and their commanders were sent to northern and west-central Louisiana to participate, including some of
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#1732923693036372-680: The Coushatta Casino Resort in Kinder, Louisiana . The casino is home to the Koasati Pines golf course. The casino operates 8 restaurants and 4 hotels, and is the largest casino in the state. The casino employs over 2500 local residents, and it is one of the top five largest private employer in Southwest Louisiana. Coushatta language Koasati (also Coushatta ) is a Native American language of Muskogean origin. The language
403-542: The Koasati language. The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana is headquartered in Elton, Louisiana . The tribe is a sovereign nation and is governed by a democratically elected five-member council. The current administration is as follows: F. A. Little, Jr. (Louisiana Coushatta, 1936–2024), a U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, served as chief judge for the tribe for nine years. The tribe owns and operates
434-644: The Tribe's official orthography, the [ ɬ ] is represented by ⟨th⟩ and the [ t͡ʃ ] is represented by ⟨ch⟩ , with no distinction for aspiration. Additionally, Kimball notes that /p/, /t/, and /k/ are aspirated in initial and medial positions. However, the website for the Koasati Language Project explicitly states that these consonants are never aspirated. The [ ɦ ] occurs most often before [t͡ʃ] , as in [haɦt͡ʃí] "river", spelled ⟨hahchi⟩ in
465-536: The Year twice (1967, 1978). Baseball Football This Louisiana school-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana ( Coushatta : Kowassaatiha ) is one of three federally recognized tribes of Koasati people . They are located in Allen and Jefferson Davis Parishes , Louisiana . The tribe hosts an annual pow wow during
496-407: The contrary, I do not believe them." Unknown glossing abbreviation(s) ( help ); In the first word, all units that follow the root - ilá - "arrive" are suffixes filling the various position classes. A sample of suffixes, in this case, Position 5 suffixes of ability, follows: Kimball notes that of these, only - halpi꞉sa - "to be able to" is used frequently. Muskogean languages such as Koasati have
527-478: The final syllable was deleted. Vowel clusters occur in Koasati, unlike in other Muskogean languages where such clusters are made impossible by metathesis and vowel deletion. These clusters occur in Koasati due to the use of locative prefixes that end in a vowel and class 1A negative transitive verbs since these do not undergo the processes of metathesis and vowel deletion. Clusters beginning with /a꞉/ and /i꞉/ are most frequent, and all clusters are generally spoken with
558-429: The final unaccented vowel or the nasalization of the final vowel when deleting it would eliminate phonological information relevant to the phrase's meaning. For example, the final vowel in hopoonilaho̱ "he/she will cook it" is nasalized instead of deleted, and therefore is distinguished from the more emphatic hopoonilaha̱ , where the irrealis future suffix - laha - indicates that the action will certainly occur, whereas
589-402: The first school for local Black students in his home 4 miles north of Kinder and hiring Lawrence Shaw of Oklahoma as the school's teacher. In 1900, Captain deeded 2 acres of his own land to build a church house which also doubled as the school for Black students and one of his own daughters became the school's teacher. By the 1920s, a "training school" for Black students had been established by
620-460: The general locative prefix a - (Position 2) is falling out of use. Positions 4 and 5 relate to the am - and ca - sets discussed above with nouns. They contain the direct and indirect object prefixes respectively and are used to cross-reference the direct and indirect objects of verbs, as well as mark possession on nominalized verbs. For example, the Position 5 prefix ac - is used to mark possession on
651-428: The irrealis future suffix - laho - does not provide such certainty. Koasati has the consonants given in the table below, based on Geoffrey Kimball's work. IPA transcriptions occur in brackets when different from the orthography provided by Kimball. Not included in this chart is a glottal glide (marked ꞉ ) that Kimball uses in his own consonant chart, presumably to represent the lengthened vowel sounds of Koasati. In
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#1732923693036682-530: The most senior officers in the Army like Omar Bradley , George S. Patton , and Dwight D. Eisenhower . Eisenhower, then a colonel acting as Chief of Staff to Lieutenant General Walter Krueger , was headquartered with the rest of Kreuger's staff in the Kinder High School building while Kreuger himself took the school's home economics cottage as his office. A historical marker commemorating this period of history
713-430: The official orthography, thereby distinguished from ⟨hachi⟩ "tail". Koasati has both light (CV, VC, V) and heavy (CVC) syllables . Consonant clusters occur across syllables but not within. All monomorphemic Koasati words end in light syllables, while the penultimate syllable can be light but is usually heavy, and it is usually preceded by one or more light syllables, as with the construction CV.CVC.CV as in
744-518: The root of the nominalized verb meaning "to photograph" in the following way: st- INSTR - ac- 1SG . POSS - ahó꞉ba photograph st- ac- ahó꞉ba INSTR- 1SG.POSS- photograph "my photograph" ("a photograph of me") A sampling of verbal prefixes, in this case, specific locative prefixes of Position 3, follows: Kimball recorded over seventy suffixes to fill the fifteen suffix positions. All but eleven of these suffixes can technically co-occur with all other suffixes that do not occupy
775-630: The same position class. Kimball provides the following example as a possibility: o-st-oh-im-ilá-꞉ci-halpí꞉sa-laho-꞉li-má꞉mi-mpa-y-on go:&- INSTR - DISTR - 3 . DAT -arrive- PL - ABIL - IRR - DEDUC - HSY - CNSQ - SW : FOC im-ca-yím-ko-˛ 3 . STAT . OBJ - 1SG . STAT -believe- 3 . NEG ( 1A )- PHR : TERM o-st-oh-im-ilá-꞉ci-halpí꞉sa-laho-꞉li-má꞉mi-mpa-y-on im-ca-yím-ko-˛ go:&-INSTR-DISTR-3.DAT-arrive-PL- ABIL -IRR-DEDUC-HSY-CNSQ-SW:FOC 3.STAT.OBJ-1SG.STAT-believe-3.NEG(1A)-PHR:TERM "They say that they all might be able to go and bring it to him, but on
806-531: The second weekend in June. The Coushatta Indian Reservation is located on 154-acres in Allen Parish, Louisiana . Approximately 400 people lived on the reservation in the 1990s. The reservation has a tribal police department, fire department, and court house. There is also a tribal medical facility, fitness center, and event center. The Koasati language is part of the Apalachee-Alabama-Koasati branch of
837-432: The vowel (e.g., [aː] as aa ), and nasalized vowels are underlined (e.g., [õ] or [ǫ] as o̱ ). Vowel length in Koasati can be contrastive. For example, vowel length distinguishes meaning for palana "bean" and palaana "plate", as well as choba "big" and chooba "horse". Vowel nasalization most often occurs word-finally as a phrase-terminal marker. In Koasati, the end of a phrase is basically marked by either deletion of
868-600: The west bank of the Calcasieu River could cross to attend classes. Kinder's first purpose-built schoolhouse was constructed in 1893 and the school graduated its first senior class in 1914. Education for Black students in Kinder began with the efforts of Mr. Julian Captain, a native of St. Landry Parish who moved to the Hickory Flats area of then Imperial Calcasieu Parish after the Civil War . In 1878, Captain established
899-403: The word holihtá "fence". Other shapes, in which one or more heavy syllables precede a heavy penultimate syllable (e.g. CV.CVC.CVC.CV as in hacokpalpá "butterfly"), or alternate heavy and light syllables (e.g. CVC.CV.CVC.CV. as in pa꞉piyá꞉ka "bridge"), are usually the result of the compounding of two words or a once-productive rule of syncope in which the vowel of every second syllable except
930-537: Was erected at the town's American Legion hall. The Kinder High Yellow Jackets compete in District 3-3A of the LHSAA . Kinder's football stadium is named after longtime head coach Johnny Buck (1930-2005), one of the all-time winningest head coaches in Louisiana high school football history. Buck won 271 games in his 36-year career between Kinder and Opelousas Catholic and was named Louisiana Sports Writers Association Coach of
961-461: Was opened and named after George Washington Carver and saw its first graduating class in 1951. In 1965, in response to federal judiciary orders to speed along the integration of public schools across Louisiana, the Allen Parish School Board voted to adopt the federal plan for school integration, allowing a window of time in which students could transfer schools if they so desired. However, Carver High School would not permanently close until after