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
French Facility for Global Environment knowledge on economic, environmental and social issues. The Committee provides advice for the projects and strategies of the FFEM, along with working on scientific and technical aspects of the global environment. The secretariat is the operational body of the FFEM. It is hosted by the French Development Agency (AFD), at its premises located at 5 rue Roland Barthes in Paris. It is responsible for implementing the decisions of the steering committee and follow-up on projects financed by the FFEM. Its role is also to develop relations with the institutional, economic, technical and scientific partners. French Facility for Global Environment The