On this spot in the 1870s, Chief Powder Face, Joseph Pereda Desadier, and his son Chief Hawkeye, Joseph Desadier Jr., built the first school for Bayou Bourbeaux's Native American children, providing the land and the school themselves. Oral tribal history tells of the day U.S. forces stormed into their tribe's village and removed eight children from their homes, never to be seen again, taking them away to be assimilated by erasing their native culture. This event led to the chiefs' decision to hide in plain sight, and Desadier School was built to teach Native children the ways of white men. Adolph Felix Desadier, Chief Square Head, his wife Victoria Fee Flores, Clarence Desadier, Chief Parrain, and his wife Louella Waters spent their lives protecting their Native families. The school stands as a testimony to these Native American chiefs, who kept their land and family while hidden in plain sight.