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Terrebonne Parish (French: ''Paroisse Terrebonne'') is a parish located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 111,860.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/22/22109.html )〕 The parish seat is Houma.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The parish was founded in 1822.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ccet.louisiana.edu/tourism/parishes/Acadiana_Parishes/terrebonne.html )〕 Terrebonne Parish is part of the Houma-Thibodaux, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is the second-largest parish in the state in terms of land area, and it has been a center of Cajun culture since the 18th century. More than 10% of its residents speak French at home. Terrebonne is represented in the Louisiana House of Representatives by the Republican businessman Gordon Dove of Houma. Dove's seat was previously held by Hunt Downer, a former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Dove vacates the House seat in January 2016 to become Terrebonne Parish president. He will be succeeded in the legislature by another Republican, Jerome Zeringue of Houma. Ray Authement, the fifth president of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, from 1974 to 2008 and the longest-serving president of a public university in the United States, was born in rural Terrebonne Parish, near Chauvin, in 1928.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Newsmaker of the Year )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ray Paul Authement )〕 ==History== Houma was named after the Houma people. The native word ''houma'' means red, and the tribe's war emblem was the crawfish. Historians say the Houma were related to the Muskogean-speaking Choctaw, and migrated into the area from present-day Mississippi and Alabama. They first settled near what is now Baton Rouge. After many conflicts with other Indian tribes, and losing a war to the Tunica in 1706, to escape the encroachment of Europeans, the Houma Indians continued moving south to more remote areas in the bayous. They settled in present-day Terrebonne Parish in the mid- to late 18th century. They established a camp known as Ouiski Bayou on the high ground northwest of what later developed as downtown Houma. They were subsequently pushed from the highlands of the north to the coastal regions of the south by the European settlements in the late 1700s and 1800s. Evidence of the Houma Tribe can still be found in this area today. One of the southernmost of Louisiana's parishes, Terrebonne Parish was established on March 22, 1822, from the southern part of Lafourche Interior, bordering on the Gulf of Mexico. Covering an area of 2100 square miles, it is the second-largest parish in the state. The early French settlers named the parish for the fertility of its soils: ''terre bonne'' means "good earth." In 1834, Terrebonne Parish founded the city of Houma in order to establish a centrally located and more easily accessible parish seat. Prior to this, the county seat had been set at Williamsburg (now Bayou Cane), approximately four miles northwest of present-day downtown Houma. Government officials believed that the site of Houma, at the convergence of six bayous, would provide better access for commerce and development in Terrebonne Parish, as most transportation and shipping was by water. It was near a former settlement of the Houma Tribe of Native Americans. Williamsburg was at the junction of two: Bayou Cane and Bayou Terrebonne. Richard H. Grinage and Hubert M. Belanger donated one arpent of frontage along Bayou Terrebonne on March 18, 1834 for the new government seat. This land became the foundation around which Houma was developed. Because of this significant donation, Grinage and Belanger are considered the "Fathers of Houma." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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