05/11/2021 @ All Day – ADA DEER NOMINATED TO BE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR FOR INDIAN AFFAIRS Born in Keshena, Wisconsin, August 7, 1935, Deer was the first Menominee to earn an undergraduate degree at University of Wisconsin (UW). In 1961, she earned a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University. Her activism led to the Menominee Restoration Act […]
05/12/2021 @ All Day – MAⁿCHÚ-NAⁿZHÍ (STANDING BEAR) WINS U.S. ex rel. STANDING BEAR V. CROOK RECOGNIZING NATIVE AMERICAN PERSONHOOD STATUS This landmark decision gave Native Americans civil rights under U.S. law. In 1877, the Ponca, having ceded their lands in Nebraska, were relocated to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). By 1878, a third of the tribe had died from disease […]
05/13/2021 @ All Day – YANKTONAI DAKOTA MODERNIST PAINTER OSCAR HOWE (MAZUNA HOKSHINA) BORN Howe was born on the Crow Creek Reservation of South Dakota. In 1938, he graduated from Santa Fe Indian School. Working for the Federal Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, Howe painted murals, including one within the dome of the Carnegie Resource Center. After serving in […]
05/14/2021 @ All Day – CHEROKEE BOATSWAIN’S MATE FIRST CLASS JAMES E. WILLIAMS RECEIVES MEDAL OF HONOR Born on November 13, 1930, in Fort Mill, South Carolina, Williams joined the Navy in 1947. For his last tour, then-BM1 Williams asked to command a Patrol Boat Riverine (PBR) along the Mekong River. On October 31, 1966, his PBR was attacked by […]
05/15/2021 @ All Day – CANADIAN MÉTIS INSURGENT LOUIS REIL SURRENDERS SELF IN SASKATCHEWAN Born October 22, 1844, in Saint-Boniface, Red River Settlement, in 1869, Riel led the Métis National Committee in forming a provisional government in what became Manitoba. When opponents tried to disband the provisional government, the Métis captured and court martialed them. One member was executed. While […]
05/16/2021 @ All Day – HOPI DIANE JOYCE HUMETEWA SWORN AS U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE Born December 5, 1964, in Phoenix, Arizona, Humetewa, an enrolled member of the Hopi tribe, received her Juris Doctor in 1993 from Arizona State University. Beginning in 1996, she served as Tribal Liaison in the office of the U. S. Attorney for Arizona, and from […]
05/17/2021 @ All Day – ALASKA NATIVE ALLOTMENT ACT OF 1906 ENACTED—RECOGNIZED ABORIGINAL RIGHTS With competition for Alaskan land increasing in the late 1800s, disputes between miners, resource developers, and Alaska Native people arose leading to litigation. Two early cases [U.S. v. Berrigan, 2 Alaska 443 (1905) and U.S. v. Cadzow, 5 Alaska 125 (1914)] held that non-Natives could not […]
05/18/2021 @ All Day – TLINGIT WEAVER SHAXʼSAANI KÉEKʼ (JENNIE THLUNAUT) BORN Born in the Chilkat Territory, in southeast Alaska, Jennie, whose Tlingit name meant “Younger sister of the girls,” was 10 when she received her first batch of mountain goat hair and her mother taught her weaving. In 1908, Jennie finished a Chilkat blanket that her mother had started […]
05/19/2021 @ All Day – NAHAU MEXICAN REVOLUTIONARY ZAPATA & ARMY CAPTURE CUAUTLA During the Mexican Revolution, Emiliano Zapata Salazar (Zapata) formed and led the Liberation Army of the South. Born August 8, 1879, in the Mestizo and Nahautl-speaking pueblo of Anenecuilco, in the state of Morelos, his indigenous and peasant forces were a key contributor to the fall of […]
05/20/2021 @ All Day – KA’AHUMANU BECOMES QUEEN REGENT (KUHINA NUI) Born on March 17, 1768, on Maui, her father, advisor to Kamehameha I, arranged for Kaʻahumanu to marry the king when she was 13. One his favorite wives, she encouraged war to unify the islands. Upon his death on May 8, 1819, she pronounced herself co-ruler with his son […]