00:00:30 - Intro: Interview with Daize Cheramie at his home in Cut Off, LA on June 12th; Mr. Cheramie is 84; His daughter is there translating;
00:00:52 - Thomas Weisman owned a small piece of land on Little Temple; Bo Berrett;
00:03:20 - Chinese workers; There were 15 houses at Little Temple on one side; 10 houses on the other; Little Temple is bound on one side by Bayou Rigolet and the other side is Bayou Pierrot;
00:05:50 - They own one part of Little Temple; There are two churches: one for Little Temple and one for Clark's Chenier;
00:07:00 - More than 100 people lived at Clark's Chenier; Catching shrimp waist deep in the water with a net;
00:07:45 - Bayou Cutler; Bassa Bassa; Manila Village; Bayou Collas (?); Grand Lake;
00:10:30 - The men that worked there had their families with them; No school at that time, but a Catholic Church; The priest would visit both churches every Sunday by sailboat;
00:11:55 - People moved after the storm, so he built a platform where the old church was; Their cemetery was in Grand Chenier; Grand Bayou;
00:14:00 - People got lumber from Harvey by sailboat; They didn't have a garden, but Thomas Weisman had one;
00:15:15 - Her dad had a few grocery stores; Only one grocery store;
00:16:10 - These villages in 1909 were around 80 years old; Old houses from Little Temple;
**Chris***00:18:30 - Little Temple had a store, houses, a church, a club, and a platform; They had dances on the platform; Men would play fiddle, harmonica, and guitar;
00:19:10 - Bousillage; Lulu Cheramie; 5 houses in Golden Meadow in 1914;
00:20:45 - Some people lived in houseboats, called flatboats; La cordelle; Bartering; He would go to Golden Meadow to sell oysters;
00:24:15 - Selling oysters; He used to sail to New Orleans;
00:25:55 - Logging for cypress; They used to sleep on corn husk mattresses; Gun powder;

Different interview;
00:29:00 - People moved in to trap; Workers came from the Philippines and France and started building camps; They displaced some of the Spanish settlers who were descendants from the Canary Islands; They started trapping;
00:30:00 - He wants to have a panel to discuss these things; A lot of records were lost in the fire of 1915; He's been looking at records in different courthouses; Burning camps down; Sheriff in Plaquemine was killed;
00:31:45 - Around 1945-1946 people had to start paying for the rights to trap; Fresh river water flooded the marshes which led to grass growing more; Oil companies ran pipelines all over the area;
00:33:00 - Salt water intrusion and storms/hurricanes wiped out most of the muskrat population; No trapping anymore; In the 1940s, they had ditch diggers; Leboeuf's Cut; Shell Beach;

Back to interview with Mr. Cheramie and his daughters;
00:34:17 - He was orphaned at the age of 8; He was born in Chenier and his father was born in Lafourche Parish; Corn husk beds, cypress houses about 3 feet above ground; Palmetto roofs or shingle roofs;
00:36:23 - People building houses at Little Temple;
00:37:55 - Work throughout the year; He would fish for 8 months and trap for 4 months; He would dig trainasses; Her sister arrives;
00:39:20 - The workers would boil the shrimp at night; He would get wood with Joe for the boilers;
00:41:00 - Trapping; They could trap anywhere (before leases); He would go to Fourchon; Periat/Periac?;
00:42:10 - Story about his brother breaking his arm; Medicine; Remedies using salt meat;
00:44:30 - He was a teenager before he ever had shoes; He dad worked in Timbalier; People lived on islands around there; There was one store; There were larger pieces of land in the bay, but the land is gone now; Hammock Bayou;
00:47:10 - Grand Bayou goes into Fala; Four houses on the east side of Grand Bayou and 2 houses on the west; Lesquine (?); Little Felicite;
00:49:15 - Pointe-aux-Chenes; Isle de Jean Charles; Calumet; Farming;
00:52:25 - People started moving to higher ground after storms wiped out many of the villages; Some people would live on a flatboat seasonally; Story;
00:55:40 - Baby pelicans; Hunting egrets for plumes; Bootlegging;
00:58:00 - Chinese workers; Mapion family; Eating raw shrimp;
00:59:35 - Bassa Bassa; Dancing; Cheniere Caminada; Story about the 1893 hurricane; Davis reads the story about the hurricane;