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Creole Indians, The West Feliciana Houma-Choctaw People

"The term"tri-racial isolates" is distasteful today, but its existence is part of history that we must recognize.... "As details have fallen together, it has become apparent that the isolate groups are, in fact, remnant Native American communities that have remained outside the official system of recognized tribes."   (Ned Heite) The Bordeaux Band of West Feliciana Houma-Choctaw People command INDISPUTABLE indigenous sovereign rights.  We DO NOT abdicate or defer these rights because we are involved in commerce with the public or government.  The State of Arkansas Officially acknowledged these indigenous rights by way of the Arkansas Department of Education in 2005 after a year-long, highly intensive and exhaustive Equity Assistance Center (EAC) investigatory review, led by Tripp Walter of the Arkansas DOE Legal Counsel Division. After which, the state of Arkansas confirmed that the Bordeaux Band of West Feliciana Houma-Choctaw are a "Protected Ethn