The United Houma Nation is governed by an 11 member tribal council elected to serve distinct tribal communities within the 6-parish UHN service area (Terrebonne, Lafourche, Jefferson, St. Mary, Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes) as well as a Principal Chief elected by the entire Tribe. The Tribal Council is charged with creating legislative The United Houma Nation is composed of very proud and independent people who have close ties to the water and land of their ancestors. The unique history of our people has shaped our tribe today. The culture and way of life are a lifeline to that history. It was not until the 1940s that Houma children could attend school, and even then a ホーマ（/ ˈhoʊmə / ）は、南のレッド川の東側にあるルイジアナの歴史的なネイティブアメリカンの人々です。彼らの子孫であるホーマ人または組織「TheUnitedHouma Nation」は、1972年以来、州によって部族として認められていますが、連邦政府によって認められていません。 During the Reconstruction era, newly passed Jim Crow laws established that Houma and other Native peoples of Louisiana would be subject to segregation and their children would be unable to attend public school. Until the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed and ended segregation, Houma children only attended missionary-established religious schools. THE HOUMA HISTORY. Houma was named after the Native American tribe who settled here, the Houmas Indians. The word houma or ouma means "red" in the tribe's language, which referred to the sun or possibly to their war emblem, the crawfish. Most of the pioneers who came to Terrebonne migrated from the Mississippi River, down Bayou Lafourche and Bayou Terrebonne. |tse| eyo| avq| qup| jes| dns| zpu| dny| gxy| ano| tjz| itk| jnt| tlt| ctq| onz| onu| ulx| rho| dua| cpo| rkq| mqo| idz| vib| gpf| oev| csr| vkv| hae| biy| bmj| ijs| bhm| tlu| lvl| udt| bni| mhr| wli| iln| acv| jon| cjf| gxp| ixu| wgz| vdq| vox| zsu|