The National Library of Finland has reached another milestone: it has now digitised all Finnish newspapers published in the 1940s. The newspapers offer a glimpse into an interesting turning point in Finnish history: the period after the Continuation War and the post-war ‘years of danger’ from 1944 to 1948 when issues covered in the press included the terms of peace, the Finnish weapons cache case and the Soviet-led Allied Control Commission in Finland.

In the 1940s over 200 Finnish-language newspaper titles were published, with a combined total of some 1.4 million pages. “We are pleased to add more newspaper material to our digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi service. The 1940s were an interesting phase of Finnish history, and the digitisation of the material provides many new opportunities for its use,” says Director of Services Johanna Lilja. Swedish-language newspapers were digitised earlier with separate project funding under an agreement with the copyright management organisation Kopiosto. This means that both Finnish- and Swedish-language newspapers are now available in the digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi service.  

Tutkain agreement enables remote research use of Finnish 1940s newspapers 

As Finnish-language newspaper content from the 1940s is partially protected by copyright, the National Library cannot make it openly available online. However, the online research use of newspapers published until the end of 2021 is permitted to researchers and both seminar and master’s thesis students. This right is based on the Tutkain agreement concluded by the National Library, Kopiosto and Finnish higher education institutions. The agreement provides a foundation for research using digital methods.   
 
For Finnish-language newspapers, open online use is possible for those published until the end of 1939. In addition, the National Library’s digital material can be accessed in full at legal deposit libraries, where anyone can study, for example, the digitised newspapers from the 1940s.   

The digitisation of newspapers has continued at the National Library since the 1990s. At present, almost 20 million pages of newspapers are available in the digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi service. We are currently digitising newspapers issued in the 1950s. 

From: DigitalNC:

Interested in learning more about the War of 1812? Thanks to our new partners at the North Carolina Society Daughters of 1812, now you can! For the first time ever, six scrapbooks chronicling historic preservation, research, and reenactment are now available. Each scrapbook records written histories, historic banquets, and a variety of materials gathered by daughters of War of 1812 veterans in or around North Carolina. The scrapbooks date from as far back as 1940, to as recently as 2012, covering almost a century of historic engagement.

Each scrapbook contains a variety of records related to the operation of a historic preservation society. These range from letters written by Senators, to awards granted to members for their service in historic programming and outreach. A personal highlight are the colorful photographs of the Daughters’ reenactment events, where each member would dress in period-appropriate attire (often including their husbands, children, or even grandchildren!). Each members’ dress is evidence of their breathless devotion to historical accuracy, as well as their skill in sewing and tailoring! 

The written histories in each scrapbook are also an amazing way to find out more about North Carolina’s involvement in one of the lesser recognized aspects of American history. North Carolina witnessed several historic battles during the course of the war, and its coast bore witness to a rogues’ gallery of privateers, pirates, and buccaneers. Many histories are concerned with one Johnston Blakely, captain of the Wasp. During the War of 1812, Captain Blakely captured many British boats and disrupted countless others. He was a graduate of the University of Chapel Hill in its early days, and remained in North Carolina after his service. Another prominent name mentioned in the scrapbooks is Theodosia Burr, the daughter of Aaron Burr. Theodosia went missing off the coast of the Carolinas around the War of 1812, and several oral histories in the scrapbooks speculate on her fate. 

You can read these histories and discover North Carolina’s involvement in the War of 1812 online now here. Thanks again to our amazing partners at the North Carolina Chapter of the Daughters of the War of 1812 for making this collaboration possible. You can find their partner page on DigitalNC here, or visit their website online here.

After more than four years of litigation, a closely watched copyright case over the Internet Archive’s scanning and lending of library books is finally over after Internet Archive officials decided against exercising their last option, an appeal to the Supreme Court. The deadline to file an appeal was December 3.

With a consent judgment already entered to settle claims in the case, the official end of the litigation now triggers an undisclosed monetary payment to the plaintiff publishers, which, according to the Association of American Publishers, will “substantially” cover the publishers’ attorney fees and costs in the litigation.

“While we are deeply disappointed with the Second Circuit’s opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the Internet Archive has decided not to pursue Supreme Court review,” reads a December 4 statement posted on the Internet Archive’s blog.“We will continue to honor the Association of American Publishers (AAP) agreement to remove books from lending at their member publishers’ requests.” The post added that the IA would continue work with supporters "to advocate for a future where libraries can purchase, own, lend, and preserve digital books.”

The end of the case comes after a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court in September delivered a swift and unequivocal decision that unanimously affirmed judge John G. Koeltl’s March 24, 2023, summary judgment ruling, which found the Internet Archive's program to scan and lend print library books to be copyright infringement.

“This appeal presents the following question: Is it ‘fair use’ for a nonprofit organization to scan copyright-protected print books in their entirety, and distribute those digital copies online, in full, for free, subject to a one-to-one owned-to-loaned ratio between its print copies and the digital copies it makes available at any given time, all without authorization from the copyright-holding publishers or authors? Applying the relevant provisions of the Copyright Act as well as binding Supreme Court and Second Circuit precedent, we conclude the answer is no,” the 64-page decision reads.

The infringement lawsuit was first filed on June 1, 2020, in the Southern District of New York by Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and Wiley, and organized by the AAP. The suit specifically involved 127 works from the plaintiff publishers—a sample of the more than 33,000 plaintiff publishers' works said to be included in the Internet Archive's library—with initial court filings suggesting that the lA's collection included more than a total of 3.6 million works potentially under copyright.

Publisher and author groups had long been troubled by the IA's program and the concept of controlled digital lending. But a lawsuit did not appear imminent until March 2020, when the Internet Archive rattled publishers and authors by unilaterally launching its now shuttered National Emergency Library initiative, which temporarily removed restrictions on the IA's collection in response to the pandemic closures of schools and libraries.

In a statement, AAP reps celebrated what they characterized as a complete legal victory.

“After five years of litigation, we are thrilled to see this important case rest with the decisive opinion of the Second Circuit, which leaves no room for arguments that ‘controlled digital lending’ is anything more than infringement, whether performed by commercial or noncommercial actors, or aimed at authorship that is creative or factual in nature,” said AAP president and CEO Maria Pallante, in a statement. “As the Court recognized, the public interest—and the progress of art and science that is the mandate of the Constitution’s copyright clause—is served best when authors and their publisher licensees can decide the terms on which they make their works available.”

Meanwhile, the Internet Archive’s legal battles are not quite over. The IA is facing a similar, follow-on suit filed by a group of major record labels over its "Great 78" program, which collects vintage 20th century 78 RPM recordings, digitizes them, and makes them freely available to the public.

Since it opened in the 1930s, Devil’s Den State Park has attracted generations of Arkansans for its natural beauty. So much of what people love about the park, though, was carefully planned and made by the men of the Civilian Conservation Corps. They built the cabins and laid stone steps on the trails. They aligned roads with the landscape to create dramatic vistas, and even strategically cleared trees to improve the views. 

“The CCC came to Arkansas during a crucial time when state parks were just getting established. They were instrumental in building the infrastructure of key parks like Devil’s Den and Petit Jean,” said Angie Payne, principal investigator on the project, which was led by the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas. 

CAST, in collaboration with the U of A Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, has documented the CCC’s work at Devil’s Den in a new website, ccc.cast.uark.edu, with a detailed history of the park supplemented with maps, documents and archival photos. 

“The Civilian Conservation Corps not only built the foundation for which Arkansas State Parks is known, but also established a legacy of craftsmanship and environmental stewardship that continues to inspire us today. This new website by CAST and the Fay Jones School brings their story to life, showcasing how their work has shaped beloved places like Devil’s Den State Park,” said Shea Lewis, secretary of the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism. 

The website is part of a project that aims to eventually document all CCC-built parks in Arkansas. The work was completed in close coordination with Arkansas State Parks and was funded by a grant from the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council. 

“It’s a resource that not only honors the past but also informs how we preserve and adapt these treasures for future generations,” Lewis said. 

DOCUMENTING THE PAST 

Hundreds of young men arrived at Devil’s Den in 1933. They had struggled during the Great Depression, but as members of the CCC they would be fed, housed and paid $30 a month. They set to work immediately clearing roads and creating the park. 

In an illustrated, multimedia history or “story-map,” visitors to the website can learn about “parkitecture,” the design style for America’s state and national parks that uses local stone and timber. They can listen to a video interview, recorded in 2003, with a man who was part of the Devil’s Den CCC crew. They can see how workers built the Lee Creek dam or explore a 3-D model of the overlook shelter. 

In another section, an interactive map lets visitors explore Devil’s Den across space and time. Long-vanished CCC camp buildings are marked on the map next to structures that still exist today. Click on a building, and a window appears with a description, historic and contemporary photos, blueprints and related documents.   

“One of the more unique aspects of our site is that the maps are directly connected to our archive. Users can easily go back and forth between the two,” said Manon Wilson, lead archivist on the project from CAST. 

The centralized archive currently features over 600 items (historical photos, documents and more) that have been contributed to the project by key partners including Arkansas State Archives, Arkansas State Parks, the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History and the personal collection of Karen Rollet-Crocker. 

The man suspected of killing an 18-year-old Federal Way woman in 1988 was identified eight months after he died of cancer, closing the cold case.

On Nov. 30, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department revealed in an online post that a suspect had been found in the 1988 cold case murder of Tracy Whitney. According to the post and an accompanying video, DNA swabs were taken from her body, and multiple people who knew or dated her were interviewed, but the case went cold for years.

In 2005, the DNA was sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigations Combined DNA Index System, but no match was found. However, after the Washington State Attorney General offered a grant in 2022, the sheriff’s department submitted the DNA found on Whitney to a lab for genetic genealogy, and a match was found for the suspect.

“Unfortunately our suspect, John Guillot Jr., had died a few weeks prior. Detectives matched the suspect’s DNA to Guillot’s biological son to confirm Guillot Jr. was the suspect,” the post said. “There were no connections between Tracy and Guillot Jr. and detectives believe this was a stranger abduction, rape and murder.”

Details of the murder

On Aug. 28, 1988, Pierce County deputies responded to a call of a body found in the Puyallup River near Sumner. Fishermen had located the body of a woman who was nude where the Puyallup and White Rivers meet, according to the sheriff’s department.

Following the body’s discovery, detectives were called to the scene. An autopsy was performed, revealing that the woman’s cause of death was asphyxia caused by strangulation and probable smothering. She also had several blunt-force injuries and was believed to have been sexually assaulted. Her death was ruled a homicide.

Two months later, the woman was identified as Whitney through dental records. According to a video on the incident posted by the sheriff’s department, Det. Sgt. Lindsay Kirkegaard said that through the investigation, there were many suspects, including current and previous boyfriends, and there were rumors of who could have been involved.

The following is a press release written by MyHeritage:

We’re happy to announce the publication of four huge new collections of names and stories on MyHeritage, extracted from newspaper pages on OldNews.com. The collections contain 658 million records from Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi; 998 million records from Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Nebraska; 1 billion records from Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania; and 651 million records from North Carolina, South Carolina, and District of Columbia.

The new collections are searchable on MyHeritage, with the full images of the newspaper pages available on OldNews.com via direct links from MyHeritage.

This treasure trove of genealogical information is just the beginning: these are the first four of 16 similar collections that we are planning to publish in December 2024. The full suite of collections, covering the entire United States and several additional countries, will collectively add more than 10 billion records to MyHeritage’s historical database, expanding it by 50%!

As part of this update, we’re also thrilled to share that OldNews.com now hosts more than 300 million newspaper pages!

Search the new collections now:

Search Names & Stories in Newspapers from Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi

Search Names & Stories in Newspapers from Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Nebraska

Search Names & Stories in Newspapers from Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania

Search Names & Stories in Newspapers from North Carolina, South Carolina, and District of Columbia

The importance of newspapers for genealogy

Vital records like births, marriages, and deaths, are the important building blocks of genealogy, providing names, dates, places and relationships. However, they are typically bare bones and offer no color about the lives of one’s ancestors, their personalities, achievements and hardships. By contrast, historical newspapers are much richer, more detailed, and they do provide all the juicy details that vital records lack, including, in some cases, photographs. Newspaper articles offer glimpses into the daily lives, accomplishments, and challenges of individuals from generations past. For genealogists, newspapers often hold the missing pieces of family puzzles: Obituaries describe the person’s life history and impact on the local community; Community news articles bring to life the context of your ancestors’ lives: where they lived, worked, and contributed to society; Local achievements offer insights into their personalities and legacies. There are many other types of stories that can add much color to the family tree.

What’s special about the new collections

Despite their importance, historical newspapers have often been difficult to search effectively. With MyHeritage’s cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, we’ve turned this underutilized resource into a goldmine of genealogical information.

The new collections allow MyHeritage users to uncover rich information about their ancestors that was previously out of reach. This is because they are indexed and structured, so they can be searched using imprecise names, nicknames and synonyms; whereas searching in newspapers that are not indexed (i.e. raw text, like articles published online that are searchable by Google) is typically done using keywords and requires the user to write the name exactly as it appears in the newspaper.

For example, if your ancestor was named Frederick, you can now find him in an important newspaper article on MyHeritage even if you search for him by the name of Fred and he happens to be mentioned in that newspaper with his original name of Friedrich.

As another example, if a newspaper article describes a marriage that took place “on Wednesday last week”, MyHeritage will analyze the publication date of the article and understand and store the full date of the marriage, allowing you to find it by date. This would not have been possible if you had been searching solely based on keywords mentioned in the article.

As a third example, if an article is about Mr. Wilson and further below it mentions that his wife was named Maggie, MyHeritage will understand that a person named Maggie Wilson exists and index it, and users will be able to find that article when searching for her name.

For these reasons, the new index collections are not only easy to search but also create an excellent foundation for MyHeritage’s powerful matching technologies. Users with a family tree on MyHeritage will soon receive exciting matches with the new collections, notifying them about articles in which their ancestors and relatives appear without having to search for them manually.

The structured records in the new collections were extracted from nearly 200 million English newspaper pages using cutting-edge AI technology developed by the MyHeritage team. This AI is designed to extract not just names from the newspaper articles but also the relatives of every person mentioned, as well as additional fields such as occupations, residences, travel from one location to another, and more.

You can read much more at: https://tinyurl.com/dw59yjcd.

Want to find where people having your last name are found?

“Discover the Origin of Your Last Name” is a web site offering that promises to help you find distribution of names across countries and regions. The site mainly focuses on surnames, because more people with the same surname in a place, means something: either those people are in the region since long ago and the name originates from there or nearby, or members of the same family for some reason relocated there. Want to find where people having your last name are found?

Data from many countries is available, including: Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and more.

The statistics are very reliable for some countries but not so good for others, primarily because of the quality of public records varies from one country to another. The information about surnames is derived from electoral rolls, birth records, census, and similar publicly-available information. There is good data about: the USA, Canada, and many European countries. However, there is poor to no data about: China, Iran, India and most of the African countries.

The searches are quick and easy. A search for my own surname in the U.S. displays the following results:

2,227 

I had no idea the names was so popular in the United States!

Want to find where people having your last name are found? The "Discover the Origin of Your Last Name" website is mainly used for finding origins of names, curiosity, entertainment and genealogy research. 

You can find this and more at the “Discover the Origin of Your Last Name” web site at: https://lastnames.myheritage.com/.

The key to solving Lela Johnston's murder sat in evidence for nearly 50 years before police had the means to identify her killer.

But DNA alone wasn't enough to find out who assaulted and murdered Johnston, a 68-year-old woman who lived alone on north Robinson Avenue in May 1976. Detectives with the OKCPD Cold Case Unit announced this week that for the first time, they used genealogy research to solve a murder case. Putting a face to the DNA profile finally gave Johnston's family the closure they deserve.

"I thought it would never be finished," Johnston's granddaughter Leslie Sullenger recently told police. "It had been so long."

Finding a killer through genealogy

The technology to analyze and compare DNA didn't exist in 1976. During the police investigation, however, detectives collected enough evidence that a sample could be analyzed decades later.

They couldn't find a match in the national database, said OKCPD Det. Chris Miller.

"It kind of went cold again for several years," he said in a video about the investigation produced by the police department.

In recent years, however, with the popularity of at-home DNA tests to learn more about your ancestry, police have been able to compare a suspect's genetic profile to millions of those voluntarily given to genealogy companies. One of the most high-profile cases solved using genealogy was the Golden State Killer serial murder case.

This allows police and researchers to comb through family trees and identify anyone who might be a suspect. Sometimes it produces a lead, sometimes a dead end.

"We thought we were getting close sometimes, and then find out we're down the wrong path," Miller said.

With the help of DNA Labs International and genealogist Allison Martin-Krensky, police eventually discovered their suspect: Charles O. Droke.

Droke was 28 years old when he forced his way into Johnston's home, raped her and brutally killed her. By now, though, Droke was already dead.

Charles O. Droke

Victim's family feels 'at peace'

Sullenger, the granddaughter of Droke's victim, told police that her grandmother was a loving, caring person.

"She sewed fantastic, she made all my school clothes. She cared for her yard, her home," Sullenger said. "I felt that she was an integral part of my life."

The horrific murder was devastating to the family.

"We were extremely upset and confused because they didn't take anything from the house. They just took her life," Sullenger said.

Droke met his own violent end, however. About 13 years after he murdered Lela Johnston, he was shot and killed by his own brother, Edwin. According to news reports at the time, Edwin Droke shot his brother in the head after a confrontation.

Edwin was eventually given the death penalty but killed himself two days later, all but closing out a violent chapter in Oklahoma City's history.

"I just couldn't believe it. After all these years, to finally have an answer. Are they ever going to pay for doing this? And he has," Sullenger said. "It is very important that this is solved. I feel an inner peace now."

Use this once and you will delete everything made by Google from your hard drive:

Software engineer Vishnu Mohandas decided he would quit Google in more ways than one when he learned that the tech giant had briefly helped the US military develop AI to study drone footage. In 2020 he left his job working on Google Assistant and also stopped backing up all of his images to Google Photos. He feared that his content could be used to train AI systems, even if they weren’t specifically ones tied to the Pentagon project. “I don't control any of the future outcomes that this will enable,” Mohandas thought. “So now, shouldn't I be more responsible?”

Mohandas, who taught himself programming and is based in Bengaluru, India, decided he wanted to develop an alternative service for storing and sharing photos that is open source and end-to-end encrypted. Something “more private, wholesome, and trustworthy,” he says. The paid service he designed, Ente, is profitable and says it has more than 100,000 users, many of whom are already part of the privacy-obsessed crowd. But Mohandas struggled to articulate to wider audiences why they should reconsider relying on Google Photos, despite all the conveniences it offers.

Then one weekend in May, an intern at Ente came up with an idea: Give people a sense of what some of Google’s AI models can learn from studying images. Last month, Ente launched  https://Theyseeyourphotos.com,  a website and marketing stunt designed to turn Google’s technology against itself. People can upload any photo to the website, which is then sent to a Google Cloud computer vision program that writes a startlingly thorough three-paragraph description of it. (Ente prompts the AI model to document small details in the uploaded images.)

The full article is rather long. You can find the full thing at:  https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/12/new-website-shows-you-how-much-google-ai-can-learn-from-your-photos/. 

The Adai Caddo Indian Nation is pleased to announce it has been recognized by the Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society (LGHS) as one of the state’s indigenous tribes. As part of this recognition, the Adai Caddo Indian Nation was recorded in the official state registry of indigenous tribes in Baton Rouge. 

“I am so thankful for this long-awaited accomplishment and recognition,” said Chief John Mark Davis of the Adai Caddo Indian Nation. “I am very proud of the culmination of work and research started by my father and beloved past Chief Rufus Davis and for his determination to promote the existence of our tribe. He fought the political, social, and legal battles to ensure the tribe’s recognition by the government. It is our responsibility to continue his work. On behalf of the tribe, thank you to the Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society for this wonderful recognition.”

The Adai Caddo Indian Nation became a state-recognized tribe over 30 years ago with the passing of Louisiana Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 16. The Louisiana Senate asked the US Congress to federally recognize the tribe, but like many other tribes, their federal status continues to be tied up in the multi-year process at the US Bureau of Indian Affairs. 

Prior to European contact, the Adai Caddo inhabited portions of central Louisiana and east Texas. The first European explorer of Louisiana was Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. He met the Adai Caddo in 1529, and wrote of them in his famous memoirs, La relación y comentarios. Cabeza’s accounts inspired other explorers such as Hernando de Soto. 

The area remained uncolonized for nearly two centuries. The arrival of French explorers Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville (the “Father of Louisiana”), Louis Juchereau de St. Denis (founder of Natchitoches) and Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe (founder of Fort Saint Louis de los Cadodaquious) began the colonization era for present-day Louisiana. These explorers documented their meetings, trade relations, and adventures with their new allies, the Adai Caddo.

The tribe’s involvement with the European colonial powers was so extensive, that the British, French, and Spanish originally named the Sabine River after the tribe (Rio de los Adiais), which is documented in the official records of the Treaty of Paris of 1763. Government records show the Adai Caddo remained allies of the colony, in particular with the strategic outpost of Fort St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches, throughout the colonial period which ended with the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The fort became Natchitoches, the oldest town in Louisiana. The Adai Caddo are the founders of the first capital of Texas (present-day Robeline, LA) and the oldest town in Texas (Nacogdoches). 

In the early years of the 18th century, European maps show the Adai Caddo’s territory going from the Red River by Natchitoches to the Trinity River in east Texas. The northern boundary was near Caddo Lake (home of the Petit Caddo) and to the south where the forest uplands meet the alluvial plains and costal marshes (home of the Atakapa). Within 100 years, their territory was reduced to small portions of present-day Natchitoches and Sabine Parish. 

“We are pleased to certify and record the Adai Caddo Indian Nation as an indigenous tribe of Louisiana,” said Robert Brevelle, Chairman of the LGHS. “They are the first peoples of this land. They fed, sheltered, healed, and fought to protect the first European settlers ensuring the future of Louisiana. Their mestizo children are among the first colonial newborns and the first Creoles. The Adai Caddo are woven throughout the fabric of Louisiana history and genealogy. ”

The LGHS was founded in 1953 to collect, preserve, and publish genealogical and historical materials for the state of Louisiana and its people. The Society works closely with genealogy and ancestry libraries, historical societies, state agencies, research facilities and universities. LGHS is headquartered in Baton Rouge and sponsors a spring and fall seminar each year at the Louisiana State Archives building. The Society maintains three official state registries: First Families of Louisiana (families who settled within the present boundaries of the state prior to the Louisiana Purchase), Indigenous Tribes of Louisiana (Native American tribes residing in present-day Louisiana at the time of European contact), and Creoles of Louisiana (Creoles born in Louisiana during the colonial period and their descendants). For over 70 years, the Society has published The Louisiana Genealogical Register - an eclectic collection of Louisiana records as well as historical and genealogical articles. Over 100 libraries subscribe to this journal. Other publications include historical books such as Louisiana Soldiers in the War of 1812, Federal Census of 1810 for Territory of Orleans, A guide to Printed Sources for Genealogical and Historical Research in the Louisiana Parishes, Be it Known and Remembered: Bible Records (Volumes 1-5), and Early Louisiana Families.

The Adai Caddo Indian Nation of Louisiana is a state-recognized Native American tribe, member of the Native American Commission of the Louisiana Office of Indian Affairs, and oversees a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing educational, emergency disaster and relief services, and other charitable programs to the historic Robeline and La Laguna de los Adaes (Spanish Lake) communities of Natchitoches Parish. This area represents the heart of the U.S. Census Bureau's Adai Caddo State Designated Tribal Statistical Area. The tribe operates a cultural center and museum which also serves as the regional emergency center.  The 80-acre complex includes ceremonial grounds where the tribe hosts an annual powwow and other events.  Visit us at www.adaination.com.

John Avery
Adai Caddo Indian Nation
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