They Called Us River Rats Cheryl A. Glass Nancy Savoca

Nancy Savoca

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and the transitions between cultural epochs

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Eric Lincoln and Lawrence Mamiya

They Called Us River Rats Cheryl A. Glass Nancy SavocaThey Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River. This community exists in the place between the normal high and low water line of the Mississippi River, a zone known in Louisiana as the batture. For the better part of two centuries, batture dwellers such as Macon Fry