Tsayon Né is my blog about southeastern Texas history. Tsayon Né, pronounced something like t-sigh-own nay is what the Atakapa people of southwestern Louisiana called the land on the other side of the Sabine River, that is, “Texas,” but with special reference to southeastern Texas. You can read more about this name here.

What’s “southeastern Texas”? For this project, I mean the area between the Sabine and San Jacinto rivers, and between the Gulf coast and the rolling hills of East Texas. Roughly. More than the “Golden Triangle.”

The project has focuses on distinct individuals who represent other sides of the southeastern Texas story than what’s been considered in earlier historical writing. For example: a woman named Delphine Williams who died in Port Arthur in 1930 and spoke the native Atakapa language of southeastern Texas and Southwestern Louisiana. My project will also focus on some distinctive places in southeastern Texas like Beaumont’s Temple to the Brave and the site of Fort Anahuac. I’m hoping to get a book out of this some day.

The posts below are truncated on the home page: you have to hit the link for “more…” to finish reading them.

I’m Ted A. Campbell, a native of Beaumont, a historian, an elder, and a writer. You’re welcome to respond in the comments area at the end of each post, and you can email me at: tsayonne@gmail.com