Rhonda remedies Gauthier was recognized as a Louisiana Tradition Bearer by the Louisiana Folklife Commission and the Office of the Lt. Governor of Louisiana on October 8, 2022. Serving as a Folklife Ambassador for the Louisiana Folklife Commission, Dr. Shane Rasmussen, professor of English and director of the Louisiana Folklife Center, spoke with Gauthier about her lifetime of experience studying and preserving Louisiana’s traditional folklife.
An Adeasonos and member of the Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb, Louisiana, and President of the Ho Minti Society, Inc., Rhonda Gauthier grew up outside of Zwolle. As a young girl she began learning from the women in her immediate and extended familie...