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The nation is named for Willow Cree Chiefs Beardy (kâmiyescawesit (Kah-mis-cho-wey-sit), "one who has a little beard") and Okemasis (okimâsis, "little chief", diminutive of okimâw). Together, they led two-thirds of the Willow Cree band and settled west of Duck Lake prior to the signing of Treaty 6 in 1876. With adjoining reserves, the two ...
Beardy's 97 and Okemasis 96 is an Indian reserve of the Beardy's and Okemasis' Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] It is 58 kilometres southwest of Prince Albert . In the 2016 Canadian Census , it recorded a population of 1323 living in 301 of its 311 total private dwellings. [ 2 ]
Harvey Fields, born in Avoyelles Parish, state senator for Union and Morehouse parishes from 1916 to 1920; member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission from 1927 to 1936; former law partner and political ally of Huey Pierce Long Jr. Donald E. Hines, physician in Bunkie, politician and president of the Louisiana State Senate from 2004 to ...
The Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization [1] of individuals who self-identify as Cherokee but are not state or federally recognized as a Native American tribe or government. The headquarters for the NCNOLT is in Columbia, Missouri.
The Willow Cree Reserve is an Indian reserve shared by Beardy's and Okemasis' Cree Nation and the One Arrow First Nation in Saskatchewan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is about 50 kilometres (31 mi) south-west of Prince Albert , and adjacent to Duck Lake .
The state of Louisiana is home to four federally recognized Native American tribes, the Chitimacha, the Coushatta, the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, and the Tunica-Biloxi. [ 1 ] References
[4] [5] With approx 750 slaves on it and Burnside's many surrounding plantations, it was the center of the largest slave holding in Louisiana prior to the American Civil War. [ 6 ] [ 3 ] During the war, plans were made to use the plantation house as a headquarters for Union general Benjamin Franklin Butler , who governed New Orleans for about ...
Duck Lake (French: Lac-aux-Canards) was one of the five Southbranch Settlements settled by French-speaking Métis from Manitoba in the 1860s and 1870s.A Roman Catholic Mission was established in Duck Lake in 1874 by Father André O.M.I. and by 1888 the village had a school, a post office (called Stobart), a flour mill and a trading post.