02/11/2021 @ All Day – CREE LINGUIST AND AUTHOR FREDA AHENAKEW BORN Born on Ahtahkakoop Reserve in Saskatchewan, Ahenakew helped preserve the Cree language. Leaving high school to marry, she later returned to school, graduated (1969), earned a Bachelor’s degree (1979) and was named Mother of the Year by the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN). From 1985 to 1996, […]
02/12/2021 @ All Day – SECOND TREATY OF INDIAN SPRINGS—FRAUDULENT TREATY By 1800, Creek territory covered Georgia, Alabama, and northern Florida–land desired by whites. In 1802, Georgia ceded claims to modern Alabama and Mississippi in return for removal of Indians from within its borders. When no removal had occurred by 1824, President James Madison sent Duncan Campbell and James Meriwether […]
02/13/2021 @ All Day – WINNEBEGO ACTRESS LILLIAN ST. CYR (RED WING) BORN St. Cyr was born on Nebraska’s Ho-Chunk Reservation. When her mother died, she was sent to Carlisle Indian Industrial School. On April 9th, 1906, she married actor James Young Deer and began acting under the stage name, Red Wing. Working together behind and in front of the camera, the couple […]
02/14/2021 @ All Day – KIDNAPPING OF KING KALANI’OPU’U AND THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK In January 1778, Captain James Cook first encountered the Hawaiian Islands. He was welcomed with honor by Native Hawaiians fascinated by the ships, Resolute and Discovery, and the use of iron. In January 1779, he returned, anchoring in Kealakekua Bay. Initially treated with almost […]
02/15/2021 @ All Day – Born August 8, 1933, near Koyukuk, Alaska, George began mushing in the 1950s and quickly became a legendary open-class sprint dog racer. Revered internationally, the movie and song Spirit of the Wind were based on his life. His book, Everything I Know About Training and Racing Sled Dogs is the musher’s guide. Known as the […]
02/16/2021 @ All Day – “ELIZABETH PERATROVICH DAY” MARKS ALASKAN ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT OF 1945 In Alaska, this date marks the anniversary of the signing of the Alaska Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945, while also honoring Elizabeth, the Tlingit activist credited with getting it passed. At the time, Natives were treated as second-class citizens. During debate, one senator asked, “Who are these […]
02/17/2021 @ All Day – NAVAJO U.S ARMY SERGEANT JOE KIEYOOMIA DIED—SURVIVED BATAAN AND NAGASAKI Born November 21, 1919, Army Sergeant Joe Kieyoomia was with the 200th Coast Artillery in the Philippines when the islands fell to the Japanese in 1942. His captivity began with surviving the horrors of the infamous Bataan Death March. Due to his looks and name, […]
02/18/2021 @ All Day – NAVAJO RUG WEAVER CLARA NEZBAH GOULD SHERMAN BORN Born near the Toadlena-Newcomb area in New Mexico, she and her sister, Yazzie, herded sheep and cattle for their family. Before she was 13, Clara and her sister were interested in weaving. Yazzie knew how to weave and taught Clara, but they wove in secret because her […]
02/19/2021 @ All Day – SANTEE DAKOTA AUTHOR/DOCTOR OHIYE S’A (CHARLES ALEXANDER EASTMAN) BORN Eastman (whose Dakota name meant “Always Wins”) was a famed author and lecturer in the early 1900s. With the 1862 Dakota Uprising, his mother’s family (she died after his birth) took him believing his father was dead. Later, finding his father (now named Jacob Eastman), he […]
02/20/2021 @ All Day – CREE FOLK MUSICIAN BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE BORN Born in Saskatchewan, adopted and raised in New England, Buffy was influential in Greenwich Village and Toronto folk music scenes for her song Universal Soldier and album It’s My Way (1964). By 1969, she was blacklisted for her political views. From 1975-81, on Sesame Street with her infant son, […]