06/01/2021 @ All Day – INUPIAT CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST ALBERTA SCHENCK ADAMS BORN Born in Nome, Alaska, of Inupiat heritage, Alberta was a key player in the passage of Alaska’s Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945. In 1944, Alberta, then 16, was an usher in Nome’s Dream Theater. When she opposed theatre policies forbidding Natives and “half-breeds” from sitting in the white […]
06/02/2021 @ All Day – INDIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT SIGNED INTO LAW BY PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE The Indian Citizenship Act (1924 Act) granted full birthright citizenship for all American Indians. Under the Constitution’s Article I, “Indians not taxed” were not counted in the voting population of states (slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person). Before the Civil War, Indian citizenship […]
06/03/2021 @ All Day – MEXICAN LAWYER/SCIENTIST/DIPLOMAT MELCHOR OCAMPO DIED Born January 5, 1814, in Maravatío, Michoacán, Ocampo was Mestizo. When Manuel Gómez Pedraza became president of Mexico in 1844, he appointed Ocampo Governor of Michoacán. Ocampo reorganized the state treasury, built roads, and improved the state’s national guard. Fiercely anticlerical, he advocated free, public, secular education. Forced into exile […]
06/04/2021 @ All Day – ACOLHUA POET ARCHITECT NEZAHUALCOYOTL DIED Born about April 28, 1402 in Texcoco, northeast of Tenochtitlan, his name meant ”The Hungry Coyote.” He was 16 when his father, Ixtlilxochitl I, ruler of Texcoco, was dethroned. In 1428, a coalition of cities conquered Texcoco and Nezahualcoyotl was crowned Tlatoani of Texcoco in 1431. Considered one of the […]
06/05/2021 @ All Day – CHEROKEE ATTORNEY KEITH HARPER SWORN IN AS U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Confirmed in 2014 as U.S. Representative to the U.N. Human Rights Council, Keith Harper became the first federally-recognized tribe member to serve at the ambassadorial level. Born in 1965, he received his undergraduate degree from University of California at […]
06/07/2021 @ All Day – KAMEHAMEHA III SIGNS HAWAIIAN DECLARATION OF RIGHTS (HAWAIIAN MAGNA CARTA) Traditionally, the Hawaiian Islands were ruled based upon a system of common law consisting of ancient kapu (taboos) and the traditional practices of the celebrated Chiefs. On June 7, 1839, King Kamehameha III proposed and signed the Declaration of Rights–the first departure from the ancient […]
06/08/2021 @ All Day – MÉTIS MODEL/ENTREPRENEUR BLANCHE BRILLON MACDONALD DIED Born on May 11, 1931, in Faust, Alberta, Blanche was influenced by her Cree-speaking grandmother. A model before opening her own modeling agency in 1960, she soon became involved in the Aboriginal community in Vancouver. On the Board of The Vancouver Indian Centre, she worked with First Nations designers […]
06/09/2021 @ All Day – IROQUOIS STAGE FIRST ATTACK ON MONTREAL Following nearby attacks on Algonquin traders in May, a group of forty Iroquois saw a group of 60 unarmed Huron comning down river in 13 canoes headed or Trois-Rivieres to trade furs and to bring correspondence from Jesuit superioras. The Iroquois attacked killing 3 French workmen outside the settlement […]
06/10/2021 @ All Day – COBELL V. BABBITT FILED: HANDLING OF TRUST FUNDS Ultimately entitled Cobell v. Salazar, this class-action lawsuit was brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by Elouise Cobell (Blackfeet) and others in 1996 against the U.S. Departments of the Interior and the Treasury for errors in accounting for the income from Indian […]
06/11/2021 @ All Day – ALCATRAZ OCCUPATION ENDS After a 19-month occupation, Federal Marshalls removed the last occupiers from the former Federal prison. On November 9, 1969, about fifty Native Americans, calling themselves the “Indians of All Tribes, Inc.,” chartered a boat and circled the island, symbolically claiming it. Five, including Mohawk Richard Oakes, dove off and swam ashore to […]