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Pierre Bénard
Pierre Bénard (17 November 1898 – 22 December 1946) was a French journalist.
Bénard was born in 1898; his father was clerk to an attorney. He began as a journalist in the 1920s, for "L'Œuvre", where he held the judicial brief, and for "Bonsoir". He was the author of upbeat novels and of many prefaces for works on contemporary law, at the same time doing large-scale reportages for various weekly publications including "Gringoire" (from which he distanced
However the research by anthropologist James Mooney in the 20th century determined that a more accurate count was proposed by Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, who found that the tribe population was around 1500 people. In 1722, Father Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix wrote that the Acolapissa tribe had 200 warriors.
Etymology and spelling.
According to Allen Wright, the word Acolapissa "(okla pisa)" means "those who look out for people" in the Choctaw language, one of the Muskogean languages. Other spelling versions