07/11/2021 @ All Day – MOHAWK-CANADIAN OKA CRISIS BEGINS The 1990 Oka Crisis, Canada’s most serious aboriginal crisis in modern times, began in the town of Oka, near Montreal, as a dispute over a planned condominium expansion to a golf complex. The complex was to be built on land claimed by the Mohawk community of Kanesatake that would have encircled […]
07/12/2021 @ All Day – CHEROKEE SGT ROY W. HARMON KILLED IN ACTION-EARNS MEDAL OF HONOR Born in Talala, Oklahoma, in 1915, Harmon served in the U.S. Army during World War II, assigned to Company C, 362nd Infantry Regiment, 91st Infantry Division. Near Casaglia, Italy, while acting as squad leader, he single-handedly attacked three German machinegun positions which were firing […]
07/13/2021 @ All Day – MEXICAN MESTIZA PAINTER FRIDA KAHLO DIED Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, born July 6, 1907, in Coyoacán, Mexico, was a Mexican Mestizo (Spanish & Native American descent) surrealist painter. While recovering from an accident, she taught herself to paint. Joining the Mexican Communist Party, she met artist Diego Rivera whom she married in 1929. Kahlo […]
07/14/2021 @ All Day – ALEUTS FOX ISLAND REVOLT KILL 300 RUSSIANS To guarantee peaceful relations and ensure native compliance, Europeans entering Alaska to hunt for furs traditionally took most or all of the women and children of the village hostage until the tribesmen accompanying the European hunters brought in enough pelts to make a cargo. Russian fur ships expanded […]
07/15/2021 @ All Day – MÉTIS LEADER CUTHBERT GRANT DIED Born circa 1793, near current Kamsack, Saskatchewan, Grant, of Cree descent through his mother, is largely responsible for the concept of a Métis nation. His father and uncle formed the North West Company (NWC). By 1812, NWC and the Hudson Bay Company (HBC) fought to control the fur trade. NWC […]
07/16/2021 @ All Day – COLVILLE ACTIVIST BERNIE WHITEBEAR DIED-FOUNDER, UNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION Born in Inchelium, Washington, September 27, 1937, Bernie was of the Sin-Aikst Tribe (now part of the Colville Confederated Tribe) and grew up on the Colville Reserve. After high school, he became an Army Green Beret. After leaving the Army in the early 1960s, […]
07/17/2021 @ All Day – OTTAWA-POTAWATOMIE CHIEF SHABBONA DIED Born circa 1775, grandnephew of Pontiac, Shabbona’s name meant “Built Like a Bear.” Around 1800, he married the daughter of a Pottawatomi chief and, upon the chief’s death, Shabbona succeeded him as chief. In the War of 1812, he was with Tecumseh when the great chief died at the Battle of […]
07/18/2021 @ All Day – PLAN DE SÁNCHEZ MASSACRE OF ACHI MAYA BY GUATEMALA PARAMILITARY In the village of Plan de Sánchez, armed forces and paramilitary allies killed over 250 people (mostly Achi Maya women and children). In 1982, President Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt, suspected the village of harboring or supporting guerrilla groups. After the massacre, the village was abandoned […]
07/19/2021 @ All Day – SITTING BULL SURRENDERS Born in the Grand River Valley in current South Dakota, Sitting Bull gained early recognition as a warrior and a man of vision within the Sioux nation. He soon gained a following among the Cheyenne and Arapaho as well. In 1867, he became principal chief of the entire Sioux nation. While not […]
07/20/2021 @ All Day – FIRST NATIONS ACTRESS TANTOO CARDINAL BORN Cardinal, born in Fort McMurray, Alberta, of Métis descent, has acted in many notable films and TV series, including Spirit Bay, Dances with Wolves, Black Robe, Legends of the Fall, Smoke Signals and North of 60. She was also in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation mini-series By Way of the […]