Ocean Memory collaborator Monique Verdin traces the indigenous Mobilian Trade Language words for “Big Country” to the area between the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers in her new collaborative book – Return to Yakni Chitto: Houma Migrations. Released by The Neighborhood Story Project, the book includes a collection of photographs and essays by Verdin with an opening essay by Houma historian and philosopher Michael Dardar, words by Houma elders Anesie & Jane Verdin and their granddaughter Allison Rodriguez, as well as poems by Ray Moose Jackson and stories by ArtSpot Productionsdirector Kathy Randels and Mondo Bizarroco-director Nick Slie.

Published by the University of New Orleans Press. Available online through www.https://www.neighborhoodstoryproject.org/