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    Opelousas (French: Les Opélousas; Spanish: Los Opeluzás) is a small city and the parish seat of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States. Interstate...
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    France named Louisiana as a colony and defined the land occupied by the Opelousa as the Opelousas Territory. The area south of the Opelousas Territory between...
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  • white supremacists while teaching a classroom of Black children in Opelousas, Louisiana. Rumors of Bentley's death, while unfounded, led both Black Republicans...
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    The Opelousa (also Appalousa) were an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands in Louisiana. They lived near present-day Opelousas, Louisiana, west...
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    Claire Babineaux-Fontenot (category University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumni)
    people in the world. Born in Opelousas, Louisiana, Babineaux-Fontenot attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Southern University Law Center...
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  • Opelousas Catholic School is a private, Catholic school in Opelousas, Louisiana. Located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette, the school offers...
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    Lafayette–New Iberia–Opelousas combined statistical area is made up of six parishes in the Acadiana region of southern Louisiana. The statistical area...
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    "New-Orleans and Opelousas Regular Packet". The Opelousas Courier. June 12, 1858. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-07-23. "Steamboat". The Opelousas Patriot. August...
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    Paul Prudhomme (category People from Opelousas, Louisiana)
    Hazel Reed, Prudhomme was raised on a farm near Opelousas, the seat of Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. His father was a farmer, who struggled financially...
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    Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar (category Opelousas, Louisiana)
    "Bobby" Dunbar was the first son born to Lessie and Percy Dunbar of Opelousas, Louisiana. He was born on May 23, 1908. In August 1912, the Dunbars took a...
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