03/01/2021 @ All Day – IROQUOIS LAWYER ACTIVIST ROBERTA JAMIESON INVESTED AS MEMBER OF ORDER OF CANADA Jamieson, a Mohawk from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, was the 1st First Nations woman to receive a law degree. She was Commissioner of the Indian Commission of Ontario (1985-89), then Ombudsman (1989-99), and past-Chief of the Six Nations of the […]
03/02/2021 @ All Day – INUIT ARTIST JESSIE OONARK BORN Born in Back River in what is now Nunavut, Oonark, named “Una,” was of the Utkusiksalingmiut, semi-nomadic people who fished and hunted caribou. Caribou decline in the 1950s led her people to Baker Lake where her art was soon noticed. From 1970 and 1985, over 100 of her drawings were […]
03/03/2021 @ All Day – SUPREME COURT RULES FOR CHEROKEE SOVEREIGNTY IN WORCESTER V. GEORGIA In 1827, to avoid removal from Georgia, Cherokees created a constitutional government declaring themselves a sovereign nation. Samuel Worcester, then a missionary at New Echota (the Cherokee capital), advised Cherokee leaders on their constitutional and treaty rights. In response, Georgia barred “white persons” from living […]
03/04/2021 @ All Day – TLINGIT ATTORNEY AND NATIVE AMERICAN BROTHERHOOD LEADER WILLIAM PAUL DIED Born May 7, 1885, in Tongass Village, Alaska, in 1912, he and brother Louis founded the Alaska Native Brotherhood which pressed for Native voting rights and land claims. The 1st Alaska Native to become an attorney, one of his trials was key for Native voting […]
03/05/2021 @ All Day – HAWAIIAN JUDGE EMMA KAʻILIKAPUOLONO METCALF BECKLEY NAKUINA BORN Born near Honolulu, O’ahu, Emma was daughter of a chiefess and granddaughter of legendary Kalanikūpule. She attended Mills’ Seminary for Young Ladies in Benicia, California, and was tutored by her father in six languages, including Hawaiian. Emma married twice: First, in 1867, to Frederick Beckley who died […]
03/06/2021 @ All Day – PUEBLO PAINTER POCANO (JULIÁN MARTINEZ) DIED Born in 1897 in San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, Martinez, whose Pueblo name meant “Coming of the Spirits,” was a farmer, governor of San Ildefonso, and artist. In 1904, he married Maria Montoya, one of the most famous of the […]
03/07/2021 @ All Day – ALASKA LEGISLATURE RECOGNIZES ANFESIA SHAPSNIKOFF AS AN “ALEUT TRADITION BEARER” The 21st Legislature of the State of Alaska recognized Anfesia Shapsnikoff as an “Aleut Tradition Bearer” who “…served as nurse, church reader, teacher and community leader nearly all her life…who contributed history and well being for all Alaskans.” Born in 1900 in Atka, Alaska, her […]
03/08/2021 @ All Day – HAWAIIAN HULA DANCER EMILY KAU’I ZUTTERMEISTER BORN Born on Oahu, Emily Kauiomakawelinalaniokamanookalanipo was raised traditionally—by her maternal grandparents. Her grandfather taught her plant cultivation; her grandmother, the uses of medicinal plants and how to quilt lauhala. Her uncle Sam Pua Ha’aheo knew the hula traditions and the ancient chants. In 1933, Emily began studying with […]
03/09/2021 @ All Day – ABENAKI WRITER SCHOLAR HENRY LORNE MASTA BORN Masta was a writer, teacher, scholar of the Abenaki Language, and respected leader in the Abenaki community. He received his primary and secondary education on the Saint Francis Indian reserve at Odanak, Quebec. Masta later attended Sabrevois College near St-Johns, in Quebec. While there, he studied Latin and […]
03/10/2021 @ All Day – ECUADORIAN ARTIST OSWALDO GUAYASAMÍN CALERO DIED Ecuador’s most celebrated artist, seen as among the greatest Latin American painters and sculptors of the 20th century, Guayasamín was born July 6, 1919, in Quito, eldest of 10 children of an Indian father and mestiza mother. Graduating from the School of Fine Arts in Quito in 1941, his […]