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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 ...
The state of Louisiana is home to four federally recognized Native American tribes, the Chitimacha, the Coushatta, the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, ...
Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory, [25] also in Arkansas and Missouri Kanasas (Awi Akta) District of NCNOLT. [25] – Located in Kansas; Oklahoma (Ani Tsi Na) District of the NCNOLT. [25] – Located in Oklahoma; Northern Cherokee Tribe of Indians [25] Northern Chickamaunga Cherokee Nation of Arkansas and Missouri. [25]
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 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.
Carte de la Louisiane, or Map of Louisiana, Histoire de la Louisiane (1757) Le Page lived at Natchez from 1720 to 1728 under the colonization scheme organized by John Law and the Company of the Indies. His familiarity with the local Natchez, and knowledge of their language and customs, is the basis for some of the unique aspects of his writings.
Antebellum Louisiana was a leading slave state, where by 1860, 47% of the population was enslaved. Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, joining the Confederate States of America. New Orleans, the largest city in the entire South at the time, and strategically important port city, was taken by Union troops on April 25, 1862.
Dancing in Congo Square, 1886. Mardi Gras Indians have been practicing their traditions in New Orleans since at least the 18th century. The colony of New Orleans was founded by the French in 1718, on land inhabited by the Chitimacha Tribe, and within the first decade 5,000 enslaved Africans were trafficked to the colony.