“I’m not going to tell you my secrets now,” warns Clarence “Chief Delco” Delcour of the Creole Osceola Mardi Gras Indian gang. “I come from the old school of it; I come from the old culture of it. My thing was basically not studying the chiefs today. I studied the chiefs that are gone away. That’s what I had to do for the culture.”

So don’t expect to find out what color Delcour’s s...