The Red River Valley, including areas near Bossier, was known as "Mound City" due to thousands of Caddo mounds used for homes, religion, and burials. Bossier City's Red River history is deeply rooted in the ancient Caddo Confederacy, who thrived in the fertile river valley for millennia, building mounds and establishing trade networks, with settlements like the Coushatta Village (Alabama-Coushatta kin) existing near modern-day Coushatta by the 1800s, later giving way to the US expansion and remo