Sample page from “Gente de Color” funeral registers from St. Louis Cathedral.

A number of ‘Yndios/Indios’ appear in Spanish period records, including both free individuals, like a man recorded as “Mingo Houppas”, an apparent chief of the Choctaw (identified in the burial record as the “Gran Hefe o Cacique de los Salvages Chactas”), who died at Charity Hospital on 30 August, 1775 after receiving the rites of baptism, and ones enslaved.  The enslavement of Native Americans had ostensibly been outlawed in Spanish colonies, but the practice continued in Louisiana long after it became a Spanish colony.