You won’t find more a decadent cuisine than these West African, French and Spanish-inspired dishes and these 17 Mardi Gras recipes prove that Fat Tuesday food is the best.

You won’t find more a decadent cuisine than these West African, French and Spanish-inspired dishes and these 17 Mardi Gras recipes prove that Fat Tuesday food is the best.

“My daughter is actually a queen of an Indian tribe down there called Wild Creole West so Mardi Gras was a big thing for my family because we are a part of that culture.” ...

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Mardi Gras Indians, also known as Black Masking Indians, are an African American carnival organization. Despite their title, the “tribes” aren’t literally indigenous to New Orleans — nor is membership ...

Queen Rukiya of the Creole Wild West Tribe says she spent months on her bright pink suit covered in butterflies and caterpillars, which she says represent the constant metamorphosis of New Orleans.

And while the beauty of the suits speak for themselves, Big Chief Howard Miller of the Creole Wild West tribe says their purpose has a deeper meaning.

Excluded from krewes comprised of the white elite, Black Americans in the 1900s drew on ancestral traditions to make Mardi Gras their own.

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux (center) leads his Mardi Gras Indian tribe, the Golden Eagles, on Super Sunday. Courtesy of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Council When Mardi Gras Indians parade down ...

The blue and white costume of the queen of the Creole Wild West 'tribe,' created in 2017, features the white buffalo, a mythical figure of Sioux origin. MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY-JACQUES CHIRAC ...

After Louis Armstrong reigned as King Zulu in 1949, musicians began writing music specifically for and about Mardi Gras. These early songs paved the way for the sounds of Carnival for decades to come.

It ended up becoming his career. Boudreaux originally performed with fellow Mardi Gras Indian chief Bo Dollis in the Wild Magnolias, which married the singing style of Mardi Gras Indians with electric ...