Cultures

Here you will find articles about the history of various cultures and what is being done today to preserve these cultures.

The Mardi Gras Indians and Nweh Cultural Traditions

Stephen B. Wilcox, Ph. D., FIDSA
Added: April 15, 2007

The subject of the article is the relationship between certain traditions in Nweh culture and a fascinating type of organization in New Orleans called the Mardi Gras Indians. For those who may be reading this out of the context of the whole volume, and may not be familiar with Nweh culture, l should explain that the Nweh people come from an area in Western Cameroon called Lebialem.