03/21/2021 @ All Day – CHEHALIS BASKET WEAVER HAZEL PETE BORN Born on the Chehalis Indian Reservation, Hazel learned to weave baskets at age 5 by watching her grandmother. She later attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M. Pete developed a technique of making double-layered baskets with woven cedar bark on the inside and dried grass […]
03/22/2021 @ All Day – MAYA LEADER TECÚN UMÁN DECLARED GUATEMALA’S NATIONAL HERO Tecún Umán, the last king of the K’iche-Maya people in what is now Guatemala, according to legend, was slain by Captain Don Pedro de Alvarado at El Piñal on February 20, 1524. Yet, Tecún Umán’s existence is not well documented. In November 1523, Hernán Cortés sent Alvarado […]
03/23/2021 @ All Day – PFC KÖCHA-HON-MANA (LORI ANN PIESTEWA) FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN KILLED IN COMBAT FOR U.S. Born December 14, 1979, in Tuba City, Arizona, Lori’s Hopi name meant “White Bear Girl.” Like her grandfather (World War II) and her father (Vietnam War), Lori pursued a military career. At the outset of the Iraq War, her convoy was […]
03/24/2021 @ All Day – CREEK ‘RED STICK” CHIEF LAMOCHATEE (WILLIAM WEATHERFORD) DIED Born around 1781 near Coosada, an Alabama town of the Creek Confederacy, Weatherford, whose Creek name meant “Red Eagle,” was related to several Creek leaders, including Alexander McGillivray. In 1813-1814, as civil war divided the Creek people, Weatherford led the “Red Sticks” –a faction of Upper Creeks […]
03/25/2021 @ All Day – DENE ETHEL DOROTHY BLONDIN-ANDREW BORN–FIRST ABORIGINAL PARLIAMENT MEMBER Born in Tulita, Northwest Territories, Ethel was the first Indigenous woman elected to the Canadian Parliament. She initially taught school from 1974-81 before joining the territorial Department of Education at Yellowknife as a language specialist. From 1981-84, she was involved in policy development for preserving Indigenous […]
03/26/2021 @ All Day – BATTLE OF DUCK LAKE BEGINS NORTH-WEST REBELLION BY MÉTIS Uncertainty over land rights due to Canadian expansion and encroaching settlement led Métis leader Louis Riel to proclaim the Provisional Government of Saskatchewan. The Canadian government, in response, sought greater control of the region. At Hillyard Mitchell’s store, North-West Mounted Police and civilians ran into a […]
03/27/2021 @ All Day – KWAKIUTL ARTIST BEAU DICK DIED Born November 23, 1955, in Kingcome Inlet, north of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Beau learned woodcarving from his grandfather and father assisting them in carving one of the world’s tallest totem poles in Alert Bay. In 1986, he carved a mask for Expo 86 in Vancouver now housed in the […]
03/28/2021 @ All Day – HAWAIIAN SUFFRAGIST LEADER WILHELMINA KEKELAOKALANINUI WIDEMANN DOWSETT BORN Born at Lihue, Kauai, Wilhelmina’s Native Hawaiian mother’s grandfather was a retainer of the aliʻi of Kauai. Her wedding was attended by King Kalākaua and Queen Kapiʻolani. She became politically active first in opposing annexation by the U.S. After annexation, she became a prominent leader for women’s […]
03/29/2021 @ All Day – PRINCE PHILLIP’S WAR—NARRAGANSETT BURN PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND During King Philip’s War (1675-78), named for Wampanoag leader Metacomet (with the English name of Philip), about one-third of the towns of New England towns were destroyed. Underlying causes for the war include the wave of migration, differing conceptions of agreements regarding land, power politics among competing tribes, […]
03/30/2021 @ All Day – HAWAIIAN CIVIL WAR SAILOR/SOLDIER & BUFFALO SOLDIER PRINCE ROMERSON DIED Born about 1840, likely on Oahu (though possibly in the Philippines or India), Prince was a barber in New York City in 1861. Enlisting in the U.S. Navy for 1 year in January 1863 as a landsman, he served aboard the USS Wamsutta & USS […]