06/22/2021 @ All Day – SESSION GUITARIST JESSE ED DAVIS DIED Born September 21, 1944, in Norman, Oklahoma, Davis was of Creek and Seminole ancestry on his father’s side and Kiowa heritage on his mother’s side. At 16, he toured with country music legend Conway Twitty. Moving to California, and through his friendship with Levon Helm of the Band, he […]
06/23/2021 @ All Day – CHEROKEE BRIGADIER GENERAL STAND WATIE SIGNS CEASE FIRE–LAST CONFEDERATE GENERAL TO STOP FIGHTING. Born at Oothcaloga, Cherokee Nation, Georgia, on December 12, 1806, Stand Watie served as Speaker of the Cherokee National Council prior to the “Trail of Tears.” A member of the Ridge-Watie-Boundinot faction, he supported removal and signed the Treaty of New Echota […]
06/24/2021 @ All Day – MI’KMAQ GRAND CHIEF HENRI MEMBERTOU FIRST NATIVE LEADER TO BE BAPTIZED. On Saint John the Baptist Day, Henri Membertou, Sagamo or Grand Chief of the Mi’kmaq tribe situated near Acadia in present-day Nova Scotia, Canada, became the first native leader to be baptized by the French as a sign of alliance and good faith. Membertou […]
06/25/2021 @ All Day – CUSTER MASSACRE–BATTLE OF THE GREASY GRASS (LITTLE BIG HORN) In what is now Eastern Montana, near the Little Bighorn River, occurred the Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Native Americans involved as the Battle of the Greasy Grass. With the 1875 discovery of gold in the Black Hills, tribes were ordered to move […]
06/26/2021 @ All Day – CANADA’S SUPREME COURT FURTHER DEFINES ABORIGINAL RIGHTS IN ANCESTRAL LANDS Canada’s Supreme Court in Tsilhqot’in Nation v British Columbia (2014 SCC 44) unanimously issued a landmark ruling recognizing aboriginal rights in ancestral lands. The Tsilqhot’in Nation claimed ancestral rights to land at Williams Lake, B.C. at the time when the British Crown asserted sovereignty in […]
06/27/2021 @ All Day – “MAGNIFICENT SEVEN” TLINGIT ACTOR MARTIN SENSMEIER BORN Born in Anchorage, Alaska, but raised in Yakutat, Martin’s father is Tlingit and his mother is Koyukon-Athabascan. He worked as a welder and later on an oil rig before pursuing an acting career in Los Angeles. Sensmeier began work as a professional model before turning to acting. His […]
06/28/2021 @ All Day – HAWAIIAN LOYALIST POLITICIAN EDITOR JOHN E. BUSH DIED Born in Honolulu on February 15, 1842, Bush was of mixed Native Hawaiian and Caucasian descent. King Kalākaua first appointed him Royal Governor of the island of Kauaʻi (1877), next to his Privy Council (1878), and finally to the House of Nobles (1880). In 1886, he was […]
06/29/2021 @ All Day – AZTEC EMPEROR MOCTEZUMA II KILLED In November 1519, Hernán Cortés led 600 Spaniards from Mexico’s Gulf coast to the Aztec capital city, Tenochtitlan, where he took Moctezuma prisoner demanding gold as ransom. In May 1520, with Cortés away from Tenochtitlan, his lieutenant, Pedro de Alvarado, hearing a native plot against the Spanish, attacked during a […]
06/30/2021 @ All Day – LAKOTA TAMAKOCE TE’HILA (BILLY MILLS) OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL RUNNER BORN Born on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, Mills’ Lakota name means “Loves his Country.” Orphaned at 12, Billy attended University of Kansas on an athletic scholarship. He was a U.S. Marine Corps First Lieutenant when he entered the 10,000-meter run at the 1964 […]