Horace Pierrite

Horace Pierite Sr. (1883 − May 15, 1955) was an American politician, farmer, trapper, and Native American leader.

Background Horace Pierite was born in 1883. He grew up on the Tunica-Biloxi Indian reservation, in Marksville, Louisiana, where he lived throughout his life.

Tribal recognition On September 12, 1938, Eli Barbry and Sam Barbry (Tunica), Clarence Jackson (Choctaw), and Horace Pierite (Biloxi), traveled to Washington and called on Fred H. Daiker, an assistant of John Collier the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. At the meeting, they reported the allegation about the illegal land claims against their Spanish land grants in Avoyelles Parish. Daiker and Collier denied their claims based on a prior report from John Sibley that stated there were only a few Tunica and Avoyel Indians and that they were "dying out". Collier believed the tribe was extinct.

Legacy He and his wife had one daughter, Carry Pierite Barbry, and two sons, Finelin Pierite and Horace Pierite Jr.