Empress Verdiacee “Tiari” Washitaw-Turner (Tunica) Goston El-Bey spent more than 30 years researching the leads left to her by her grandmother. While on her Quest for truth and to free her people, she suffered great losses, brutal physical attacks, slanderous character assassination and continuing threats against her life. Yet, she remained undaunted in her quest to rebuild the nation. She was a world-renown archivist, researcher, and legal mind. She served in various capacities of government locally, nationally and internationally. As the founder of townships and the city of Richwood, L.A near sacred indigenous grounds, she was instrumental in establishing social and economic agendas to improve the living conditions in underdeveloped communities. 

Her work took her around the world. Studies in Japan equipped her with the ability to effectuate the financing and installation of citywide sewage system for one of our towns. As a mayor, she was an elected officer and one of the founders of the Conference of Mayors, both nationally and internationally. 

The previous Empress of the Washitaw authored several programs that were implemented on federal and state levels.   She was an invited advisor to the U.S. congress, the presidents, and a delegate to the O.A.U. (Organization of African Unity) meeting.  In July and August of 1996, the Empress led a group of emissaries to the summer conferences at the United Nations offices in Geneva, Switzerland. During the 14th session of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations.

The Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah was recorded as “The Oldest Indigenous People on Earth” in the final list of all attendees.  In 1993, The Washitaw Indigenous Nation of Mound Builders received its United Nations number: 215/93. To date, the Empress, as one of the living heirs of Henry Turner, recovered the title to 68,883 acres of land comprising most of the northern part of the “said” state of Louisiana. The Washitaw Empress endured the effects of an Ischemic Stroke in June 2001. She made her transition to her spiritual form on April 19, 2014, near Los Angeles, California.

Support the Washitaw Empire and their petition to force the United States government and Louisiana to honor court the decisions of Heirs of Henry Turner v United States 1848 cause number 32 and land awarded to Verdiacee "Tiara" Washitaw-Tuner Goston El-Bey by the State of Louisiana 1993 HERE

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