Odawa operating from about 200BCE to 500 CE. Some of these peoples constructed earthwork mounds for burials, a practice that ended about 250 CE. The Saugeen mounds have not been excavated. The Odawa, together with the Ojibwe and Potawatomi, were part of a long-term tribal alliance called the Council of Three Fires, which fought the Iroquois Confederacy and the Dakota people. In 1615 French explorer Samuel de Champlain met 300 men of a nation which, he said, "we call "les cheueux releuez"" (modern French: "cheveux relevez" (hair lifted, raised, rolled up)) near the French River mouth. Of these, he said: "Their
Conference of the Directors of French Engineering Schools Conference of the Directors of French Engineering Schools Conférence des directeurs des écoles françaises d'ingénieurs (CDEFI) is French for "Conference of the Directors of French Engineering Schools" The CDEFI is a French national institution that represents all engineering institutions that are accredited by the Commission des titres d'ingénieur (CTI) to deliver the French Diplôme d'Ingénieur. The conference was originally an advisory body, established in 1976 and governed by Articles D.233-D.233-6 to 12 of the French Education Code, widely revised by Decree No. 2006-428 of 11 April 2006, which broadens the scope. It was then chaired by the law minister in