Kingdom of Weeds

In 1640, French explorer LaSalle wasastonished to find a royal NativeAmerican kingdom northeast of NewOrleans. Moving along the social andpolitical wire, many of that Nachay tribeowned plantations with both white andblack slaves by the early 1700s. Onehundred and fifty years later, Major EliasPaix and his wife, Princess Melissa,along with the chief of the tribe, sold theirplantations to purchase a...