02/01/2021 @ All Day – DENA’INA ACTIVIST ALICE E. BROWN DIED Born in Kenai, District of Alaska, on May 11, 1912, Alice was a member of the Kenaitze tribe of Dena’ina peoples and a Native rights pioneer. The only woman on the original board of the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN), she also was a member of the National Congress […]
02/02/2021 @ All Day – TAINO CACIQUE HATUEY–CUBA’S FIRST NATIONAL HERO–EXECUTED Hatuey, a Taíno Cacique (Chief), fled his native Hispanola for Cuba with other Taíno in 1511 to warn Cubans about Spanish explorer Diego Velásquez who had just left Hispaniola to colonize Cuba. On Hispanola, the Spaniards slaughtered a village of two thousand Taíno who had just welcomed and fed […]
02/03/2021 @ All Day – CHINOOK-SCOT LINGUIST RANALD MacDONALD BORN Born in Fort Astoria, Oregon, of Chinook and Scottish parents, Ranald wanted to see Japan, but, in the 1840s, the penalty for foreigners intentionally going there was death. Yet, in 1848, serving on a whaling ship, he departed onto Rishiri Island claiming to have been shipwrecked. Not executed, he was sent […]
02/04/2021 @ All Day – INUIT ARTIST PUDLO PUDLAT BORN Born on Baffin Island, Northwest Territories, Pudlat was one of the most original modern Inuit artists. Initially a hunter and fisherman, in the late 1950s, he came to Cape Dorset to recover from tuberculosis. With James Houston, director of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, he started out carving, but an […]
02/05/2021 @ All Day – MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYER RUDY YORK DIED — OF CHEROKEE HERITAGE Born August 17, 1913, in Ragland, Alabama, Preston Rudy York, of Cherokee ancestry, grew up in Cartersville, Georgia. A fearsome hitter, managers had to figure out where he’d do least damage as a fielder. Yet, he spent 13 seasons in the majors playing in […]
02/06/2021 @ All Day – SQUAMISH LEADER, ACTIVIST, LACROSSE COACH XWECHTÁAL (ANDY PAULL) BORN Born at Burrard Inlet, British Columbia, Paull’s Squamish name means “Serpent Slayer.” In 1907, he began learning the law, but never was admitted to the bar because, at the time, he would have to be “enfranchised” (forfeit his Indian status). A member of the executive of […]
02/07/2021 @ All Day – GUARANI LEADER SEPÉ TIARAJU KILLED IN GUARANI WAR Sepé Tiaraju was an 18th century Guarani leader who died defending indigenous lands from Spanish and Portuguese armies. He became the first Indian officially recognized as a Brazilian national hero. Tiaraju led resistance to the 1750 Treaty of Madrid, which divided South America between Spain and Portugal. […]
02/08/2021 @ All Day – GENERAL SHERIDAN ORDERS BEGINNING OF THE GREAT SIOUX WAR In July 1874, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer went into the Black Hills to find a site for a military post. He also brought two prospectors who discovered gold. To a nation in a depression, this was great news. Newspapers and the public demanded annexation, yet, […]
02/09/2021 @ 12:00 am – PRINCESS KEʻELIKŌLANI-ROYAL GOVERNOR OF THE ISLAND OF HAWAI’I–BORN Great-granddaughter of Kamehameha I, Ruth Luka Keanolani Kauanahoahoa Keʻelikōlani was born in Pohukaina, O‘ahu. At age 16, she married William Pitt Leleiōhoku and, after his death, Isaac Young Davis. She bore 3 sons, though none reached adulthood. An ardent supporter of Native Hawaiian traditions, culture, and language, […]
02/10/2021 @ All Day – INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED JAZZ TENOR SAXOPHONIST JIM PEPPER DIED Born to Creek and Kaw parents in Salem, Oregon on June 18, 1941, James Gilbert Pepper moved to New York City in 1964 and joined an early fusion group with, among others, guitarist Larry Coryell. Pepper liked the tonal attack of eastern jazz. In 1967, he formed “Everything […]