About three-quarters of a mile west of this spot at Butte Hill is the burial mound of White Smoke, first chief of the Butte Tribe of Bayou Bourbeaux. He was baptized as Franco José Pereda Montano on 10-Mar-1778 in Mexico City. In 1799, with his band of warriors, he escaped San Fernando Mission in San Antonio, TX. Weeks later, he crossed Louisiana's territorial line with horses, cattle, furs, and other contraband to make his home on this bayou land, where he found the land of the "Great Spirit." Oral history tells of his bravery as a great warrior through counting coup, scalping, and killing his enemies. He is buried standing up, holding his sacred pipe with scalps of his coup, and his wife, Two Moons, is buried beside him. Two huge, engraved stones mark their grave site. In the 1850s, White Smoke's people went into "Hiding-In-Plain-Sight" because of injustices placed on indigenous people by the United States government. On April 6, 2019, White Smoke's people publicly revealed their existence after more than 200 years of silence on Bayou Bourbeaux.