05/01/2021 @ All Day – BRITISH & TECUMSEH COMMENCE THE SIEGE OF FT. MIEGS DURING THE WAR OF 1812 In northwestern Ohio, a British force under Major General Henry Proctor and Shawnee Chief Tecumseh attempted to capture the recently-constructed and imposing fort to prevent Major General William Henry Harrison’s expected offensive against British-held Detroit. British bombardment began on May 1 […]
05/02/2021 @ All Day – PRESIDENT OBAMA AWARDS MEDAL OF HONOR TO FAMILY OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN KOREAN HERO ANTHONY T. KAHO’OHANOHANO Born on Maui in 1930, Anthony was one of six brothers who served in the U.S. military. On September 1, 1951, Army Private First Class Kahoʻohanohano was serving in Korea, near Chup’a-ri, in charge of a machine gun squad. […]
05/03/2021 @ All Day – MAYAN AJAW (COPÁN) UAXACLAJUUN UB’ACH K’AWIIL REPUTEDLY DIED Known also as “18-Rabbit,” he was the 13th ajaw (ruler) of the Maya polity of Copán in modern Honduras. On January 2, 695, he ascended the throne upon the death of Smoke Imix and constructed the Esmeralda Structure to entomb Smoke Imix’s remains. Based on the number […]
05/04/2021 @ All Day – U.S. GOVERNMENT REMOVES THE DAKOTA FROM MINNESOTA The Dakota War of 1862 was the first violent engagement between the Sioux and the United States. As a result of the war, the government abolished the Dakota reservation, declared previous treaties with the tribe null and void, and undertook to expel the Dakota people from Minnesota. A […]
05/05/2021 @ All Day – INUK THROAT SINGER-JUNO WINNER-TANYA TAGAK BORN From Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Tanya was attending Nova Scotia College of Art and Design when she developed her style of Inuit throat singing. Normally done by two women, she went solo because she did not have a singing partner. Getting her start with Icelandic singer Bjork, her 2005 CD, […]
05/06/2021 @ All Day – JACQUES CARTIER SAILS FOR FRANCE WITH DONNACONA & NINE OTHER IROQUOIS Donnacona was chief of the Iroquois village of Stadacona, at the site of present-day Quebec City, when French explorer Jacques Cartier made the first two of his three voyages to the New World. On his 1st voyage, in 1534, he left for France with […]
05/07/2021 @ All Day – COPPER INUIT ARTIST KALVALADLAK (HELEN KALVAK) DIED Born in 1901 at Tahiryuak Lake, on Victoria Island and raised in the Prince Albert Sound area, Helen lived a traditional Inuit lifestyle most of her life. Her father taught her to be an angatkuq (spiritual healer). In 1960, after her husband died, she moved to present-day Ulukhaktok […]
05/08/2021 @ All Day – ALASKAN TLINGIT WRITER KEIX̱WNÉI (NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER) BORN Born in Juneau, Alaska, Nora spoke only Tlingit until age 8. Working with linguist husband Richard Dauenhauer, she was highly influential in preserving and teaching the Tlingit language. At University of Alaska, she translated and transcribed works of Tlingit culture into books. Along with poems and short […]
05/09/2021 @ All Day – MUSCOGEE AUTHOR/U.S. POET LAURIAT JOY HARJO BORN Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Harjo is a writer, academic, musician, and Native American and feminist activist. Currently a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she teaches American Indian studies and English. Publications include: The Last Song (1975); What Moon Drove Me to This? (1979); Secrets from […]
05/10/2021 @ All Day – U.S. V. KAGAMA, 118 U.S. 375 (1886)-U.S. SUPREME COURT GIVES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT JURISDICTION ON RESERVATIONS In a unanimous decision, Kagama upheld the constitutionality of a federal criminal statute specifically applicable to Indians. In Ex parte Crow Dog (1883), the Court had held that tribal, not federal, law applied to criminal acts committed by an Indian […]