Originally settled by the Houmas Indians, the area saw an influx of French-speakers during the 1760 as colonists fled New Orleans after the Spanish Occupation began and Acadians from French Canada arrived to settle in the bayous. With this latter group came the first large group of kindred, the Acadian Sabbat. Two packs accompanied the settlers, one which settled in Lafayette and the other here. When the former pack broke briefly with the Lasombra of New Orleans during the Sabbat Civil War, they chose neutrality, which hurt the Lasombra almost more than actual aggression. Once the Purchase Pact was signed, however, both groups vowed to cooperate with New Orleans in order that the region might remain in the hands of the Sabbat.
The city of Houma was founded in 1834 and incorporated in 1848 in order to serve as a more centrally located seat for Terrebonne Parish and sat on the convergence of six bayous, providing better access for commerce than the previous seat of Williamsburg. The pack itself generally kept to the small outlying communities, preying on stragglers, travellers, and occasionally the sugar cane plantations, being careful not to draw the ire of the locals by ranging over a large area and being careful not to visit any particular community twice in quick succession.
The Acadian pack was vital in supporting the Lasombra of New Orleans by patrolling the routes from the city to the gulf, keeping out Camarilla agents and helping to reinforce their control over trade routes into the city. The pack had very good relations with Jean Lafitte and helped to solidify his control over the import/export trade up until the war. They were instrumental in thwarting his attempt to gain control when the war broke out, however, using their knowledge of his routes and schedules to cripple his access to the city after it was learned that he'd betrayed the sect. They continued to fight to keep Camarilla out of the city during the war and throughout Reconstruction, cutting off any reinforcements the Brujah might have gained and allowing the city from being taken decisively by the other side. This debt is acknowledged by the New Orleans Sabbat.
The Houma pack paid very little attention to the Second Sabbat Civil War, which drew more attention from the other Acadians, and the subsequent oil and gas boom also did little to effect their lifestyle except to give a boost to the local population and provide more prey. As the city itself grew, the pack spent more and more time in the somewhat diminishing wilderness, venturing only into the settled areas for hunting and acquisition of supplied. However, they remain an effective force for influencing trade on the gulf up until this day, though time is taking its toll as the bayou-dwelling Gangrel antitribu become more and more anachronistic.
The pack has been granted a small reprieve in with the bottom falling out of the oil industry in the 1980s and the resultant skyrocketing unemployment which has put a damper on expansion and caused diversification into tourism and a greater focus on the seafood industry. More people in the bayou means more prey, but the reliance on tourism has the Lasombra of New Orleans worried that the pack's consumption will be noticed.