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Canada portal. v. t. e. A tribal council is an association of First Nations bands in Canada, generally along regional, ethnic or linguistic lines. [1] An Indian band, usually consisting of one main community, is the fundamental unit of government for First Nations in Canada. Bands may unite to form a tribal council, but they need not do so.
The Pechanga Band of Indians, also known as Payómkawichum (the People of the West), stand as 1 of 6 federally recognized tribes of Luiseño Indians; currently located in Riverside County, California. [4] The modern understanding of the tribe, Pechanga, meaning "the place where water drips," comes from the displacement of the tribe during their ...
The governing council was named the Exovedate, Latin for "of the flock". The council debated issues ranging from military policy to local bylaws and theological issues. It met at Batoche, Saskatchewan, and exercised real authority only over the Southbranch Settlement. The provisional government collapsed that year after the Battle of Batoche.
As of 2024 the Sri Lanka Army had 150,000 personnel. [2] In 2023 the army had 200,783 personnel and the number was reduced to 150,000 in 2024. [2] In late 1987, the army had a total estimated strength of up to 40,000 troops, about evenly divided between regular army personnel and reservists on active duty.
In many council-manager cities, the city council selects one of its members as a mayor, sometimes rotating through the council membership—but this type of mayoral position is primarily ceremonial. The Government of San Francisco is the only consolidated city-county in California, where both the city and county governments have been merged ...
In fiscal year 2020, US corporations sold $50.8 billion through FMS, and $124.3 billion through direct commercial sales. FMS is a U.S. government to foreign government agreement, and DSCA acts as agent for procurement mostly for American defense company and aerospace companies or for DoD stocks. On any given day, DSCA is managing “14,000 open ...
Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council. The Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council ( YRITWC) is a multi-government advisory, advocacy, monitoring, and lobby group for protecting and cleaning up the Yukon River. [1] [2] It consists of 66 First Nations and tribes in Alaska, Yukon, and British Columbia, living along the Yukon River. [3] [4]
The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.