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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 ...
Grand Bayou received increased attention after the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority's 2017 master plan for coastal restoration included neither aid nor a resettlement plan for the village. [1] [4] This has been partially attributed to the tribal community's lack of federal recognition.
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 ]
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
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 Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory continues to claim they have state recognition in Missouri, due to a 1983 letter from then-Governor Kit Bond where he personally acknowledged existence of the group; but this letter did not grant them state recognition (which is a legislative process) nor did it grant them recognition ...
In 1952 it was the most Republican county-equivalent in the nation, [39] and until the decay of the Perez machine no Democrat was to pass thirty percent of the parish's vote. Plaquemines Parish is the home of former Parish President and current Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana Billy Nungesser.
Attakapas Parish, a former parish in southern Louisiana, was one of the twelve parishes in the Territory of Orleans, newly defined by the United States federal government following its Louisiana Purchase in 1803. At its core was the Poste des Attakapas trading post, which developed as the current city of St. Martinville. [1] [2]