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
Ninth constituency for French residents overseas Ninth constituency for French residents overseas The Ninth constituency for French residents overseas ("neuvième circonscription des Français établis hors de France") is one of eleven constituencies each electing one representative of French citizens overseas to the French National Assembly. It covers all French citizens living in the following sixteen countries of North-West Africa: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Tunisia. (It specifically excludes Western Sahara, which is recognised neither as a part of Morocco nor as a separate country, and is not a part of