04/01/2021 @ All Day – REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL VINCENTE GUERRERO BECOMES PRESIDENT OF MEXICO Born August 10, 1782, in Tixtla, Guerrero was of African-Mestizo heritage. In 1810, he joined José María Morelos’s army during the Mexican War of Independence. In 1816, Guerrero defeated Agustín de Iturbide and then convinced him to join in rebellion. Under the Plan de Iguala, they demanded […]
04/02/2021 @ All Day – OJIBWE ACTIVIST/ EDUCATOR EQUAY ZAINCE (ELIZABETH BENDER ROE CLOUD) BORN Elizabeth was from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. Graduating from Hampton Institute in 1907, she joined the Society of American Indians and taught, first on the Black Feet reservation in Teton, Minnesota, and later at Carlisle Indian Industrial School. In 1916, she met […]
04/03/2021 @ All Day – CROW WAR CHIEF/HISTORIAN/BRONZE STAR RECIPIENT HIGH BIRD (JOE MEDICINE CROW) DIED Born October 27, 1913, on the Crow Reservation in Montana, Joseph heard from his step-grandfather, White Man Runs Him, a U.S. Cavalry scout, a 1st-hand account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Graduating from Linfield College (1938), he earned a master’s degree from […]
04/04/2021 @ All Day – FOUR NATIVE HAWAIIANS AMONG CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES REACHING HAWAII Christian evangelists from Boston, led by Reverend Hiram Bingham and his wife, Sybil Mosely, arrived in Hawai’i on a ship named “Thaddeus.” With them were four native Hawaiian men, Thomas Hopu, William Kanui, John Honoli’i, and George Tamoree (the prince of Kaua’i). They had all studied with […]
04/05/2021 @ All Day – SALISH ARTIST SUSAN POINT BORN Born in Alert Bay, British Columbia, Point grew up on the Musqueam Indian Reserve. In the early 1980s, she taught herself the Salish traditions and studied Coast Salish art. Her art has involved adapting traditional spindle whorl carvings into screen printing. Her public pieces were installed at the Vancouver International […]
04/06/2021 @ All Day – CHEROKEE TRIBAL LEADER WILMA MANKILLER DIED Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, November 18, 1945, Mankiller grew up in San Francisco. In the 1960s, she became active in Native American issues. In the mid-1970s, she worked for the Cherokee Nation (Nation) as planner and program developer. In 1983, Mankiller was elected deputy chief of the Nation and, […]
04/07/2021 @ All Day – CHILEAN MAPUCHE NOBEL POET HUMANIST GABRIELA MISTREL BORN Mistral was the first female Latin American poet to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945). Born Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga in Vicuña, Chile, she started working at age 16 as a teacher’s assistant. Throwing herself into her writing and her work in education, she became a […]
04/08/2021 @ All Day – PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR ROBERT MORRIS ENACTS “THE SCALP ACT.” The Act, which legalized taking native scalps for money paid by the Pennsylvania government, was meant to get rid of the Lenape (Delaware). It stemmed from three treaties. The Treaty of 1732, between the Penn family and the Iroquois, removed the Shawnee from the Susquehanna River Valley. […]
04/09/2021 @ All Day – HAWAIIAN PRINCE KALAHOʻOLEWA (WILLIAM PITT LELEIOHOKU II) DIED Born on January 10, 1855, the day of Kamehameha III’s funeral, his name meant “Day of the funeral.” Of the reigning House of Kalākaua, he was a poet and composer of Hawaiian mele (songs). He is remembered primarily for composing the song Kāua I Ka Huahuaʻi, used […]
04/10/2021 @ All Day – PEQUOT WRITER, MINISTER WILLIAM APESS DIED Apess was born January 31, 1798, in Colrain, Massachusetts. With the Second Great Awakening, Apess embraced Methodism and considered Native Americans one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Despite being legally forbidden to preach without a license, starting in 1817, he proselytized throughout Connecticut and in the Albany […]