Evans and Lighter Landscape Architecture of New Orleans
imagined the various elements of the community
​influenced by the saw palmetto design.

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The new site development will be a self-sustaining, practical, affordable, living demonstration of a tribal resettlement, with residential, agriculture, agroforestry, and aquaculture uses.

​The proposed resettlement will become a living model of community cultural resilience, disaster and climate change adaptation, green building practices, environmental stewardship, and sustainable economic development.  The Lowlander Center and the Tribe have teamed together to achieve this vision.

 The tribe selected the saw palmetto tree (tala in Choctaw), for its symbolic and functional importance in traditional tribal activities, to guide the design and layout of the community.  The palmetto branches radiate the sturdy inner spines from a a single point at the end of the branch. 

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The Educational Process and Discussion Forums with Lowlander Center
and Isle de Jean Charles Band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw.