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
Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language The Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language (French: "Délégation pour l'Adoption d'une Langue Auxiliaire Internationale") was a body of academics convened in the early part of the 1900s (decade) to decide on the issue of which international auxiliary language should be chosen for international use. The ultimate decision of the committee charged by the Delegation was to adopt the Esperanto language, but with certain reforms. The result became a distinct language known as Ido. The Delegation was founded in 1901 by French academics Louis Couturat and Léopold Leau,