When did the Chitimacha people first arrive in Louisiana?
According to Wikipedia it says that the Chitimacha arrived from further west at around 4,000 BCE while another website says the earliest known archaeological evidence of their presence in Louisiana was from around 500 CE. According to Chitimacha oral tradition, the Chitimacha have always been there and never came from anywhere else. That is what it says on their official government website. On the Chitimacha Wikipedia page the sources either lead to obscure websites with dead links or books that don’t have a free online pdf and I’d have to pay money and order a physical copy of the book just to try to flip through its pages to try and find the correct time period the Chitimacha came to Louisiana.
I never thought it would be this difficult to do proper research for a YouTube video. But I don’t want to be exposed by someone and made to look like a fool for not including proper sources.