As Chitimacha legends continue to be passed down from generation to generation, children learn and understand them through a new lens that comes with fresh ideas applicable to their environment. The Chitimacha reservation is on land that our ancestors walked on and many of these stories relate to a landspape that exists today. The Chitimacha Tribal School students designed the Water Legends Mural Project. All eighty-six student of the school reviewed a selection of Chitimacha legends pertaining to water and developed a personal meaning which they visually articulated through drawings. I then painted a wall mural, 10 feet by twenty-eight feet, based on these drawings

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