01/01/2021 @ All Day – PAIUTE PROPHET WOVOKA’S VISION LEADS TO THE “GHOST DANCE” Paiute shaman Wovoka (aka Jack Wilson, 1856-1932) had a prophetic vision during a solar eclipse which resulted in the messianic Ghost Dance religion. The religion involved, among other tenets, resurrection of dead, return of the buffalo, and removal of settlers from Native lands. His teachings spread […]
01/02/2021 @ All Day – HAWAIIAN CONSORT EMMA KALANIKAUMAKAAMANO NAE’A ROOKE (“QUEEN EMMA”) BORN Born in Honolulu, Emma, or “Royal Emma,” was daughter of High Chief George Na’ea and High Chieftess Fanny Kekelaokalani Young. In 1856, she married Alexander Liholiho who, in 1855, became Kamehameha IV. In 1859, she established Queen’s Hospital and, in 1867, St. Andrew’s Priory to educate […]
01/03/2021 @ All Day – MEXICAN GOVERNOR AND REVOLUTIONARY FELIPE CARRILLO PUERTO EXECUTED Born November 4, 1874, in Yucatan, Felipe Carrillo Puerto was of Maya background. During the Caste War, he was imprisoned for urging Mayas to tear down fences built by landowners around community lands. As a journalist, he began publishing El Heraldo de Motul. In 1913, he joined […]
01/04/2021 @ All Day – LENAPE COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME PLAYER ALBERT EXENDINE DIED Born on January 7, 1884, in Bartlesville, in Indian Territory, “Ex” had never played football before joining Pop Warner’s Carlisle Indians from 1902 to 1907. Playing end, he was named to Walter Camp’s third-team All-American team in 1906. One of his greatest days on the […]
01/05/2021 @ All Day – KIOWA “THE NIGHT THE STARS FELL” “In the Witchita Mountains, on the Southern Plains, the Kiowa were awakened by a burst of light, and running out from their tipis, they found the night lit up as bright as day, with myriads of meteors darting about the sky. “And they were awakened by the light of […]
01/06/2021 @ All Day – U.S. SUPREME COURT RECOGNIZES WATER RIGHTS OF NATIVE AMERICANS ON RESERVATIONS Winters v. United States, 207 U.S. 564 (1908), was a United States Supreme Court case clarifying water rights of American Indian reservations. The Court determined that the Fort Belknap reservation had reserved water rights through the 1888 agreement which created the reservation. It also […]
01/07/2021 @ All Day – CANADIAN MOHAWK CHIEF ODESERUNDIYE (CAPT. JOHN DESERONTYON) DIED Deserontyon, Mohawk chief and British ally, likely was born in New York’s Mohawk Valley in the 1740s. His name meant “Where Thunder Was.” Like fellow Mohawk chief Joseph Brant, he was educated in a white school and was familiar with white customs. As a boy during the […]
01/08/2021 @ All Day – THE DAWES SEVERALTY ACT OF 1887 SIGNED INTO LAW BY PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND The Dawes Act, also known as the General Allotment Act, authorized the President to divide tribal land into allotments for individual Indians. Those who accepted allotments and lived apart from the tribe would be granted citizenship. The Act, named for Sen. Henry […]
01/09/2021 @ All Day – GUATEMALAN K’ICHE’ NOBEL PRIZE ACTIVIST RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ TUM BORN Raised in the K’iche’ (pr. Quiche’) branch of the Mayan culture, Rigoberta, while still a teen, became involved in social reform and womens’ rights activities. During the Guatemalan Civil War, along with her father, she joined the Peasant Unity Committee of the Peasant Union (CUC). Over […]
01/10/2021 @ All Day – Of Choctaw heritage, Hightower was a celebrated ballerina whose international career included founding the Centre de Danse Classique in Cannes, France, one of the world’s leading ballet schools. In the U.S., in the 1940s, she performed with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, American Ballet Theater (now Ballet Theater) and Col. W. de Basil’s Ballets […]