11/21/2021 @ All Day – TSIMSHIAN PHOTOGRAPHER BENJAMIN HALDANE DIED Born on June 15, 1874, in British Columbia, Haldane migrated in the late 1880s with 800 Tsimshian people to Metlakatla, Alaska, where they sought secure land rights and religious freedom. In 1903, Haldane began teaching music in southeast Alaska and, for years, was church organist and choir master. He also […]
11/22/2021 @ All Day – MI’KMAQ CHIEF KOPIT (JEAN-BAPTISTE COPE) REACHES PEACE WITH NOVA SCOTIA Born in the Shubenacadie valley of Nova Scotia (N.S.) in 1698, Kopit, whose name meant “Beaver,” probably was a Chief when he signed the Treaty of 1725 between the Wabanaki Confederacy and the British ending Dummer’s War. After the end of King George’s War in […]
11/23/2021 @ All Day – PRESIDENT CLINTON SIGNS PUBLIC LAW APOLOGIZING FOR THE OVERTHROW OF THE KINGDOM OF HAWAII On this date, Congress adopted and President Bill Clinton signed U. S. Public Law 103-150 (107 Stat. 1510). Informally known as the “Apology Resolution,” this Joint Resolution of the U.S. Congress acknowledged “that the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii occurred […]
11/24/2021 @ All Day – CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO SUZAN SHOWN HARJO AWARDED PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM Born on June 2, 1945, in El Reno, Oklahoma, Suzan, in the 1960s, co-produced (with eventual husband Frank Harjo) Seeing Red, the 1st Indian radio news show in the U. S. In 1974, she was legislative liaison on Indian issues and news director for […]
11/25/2021 @ All Day – OJIBWE TOMMY PRINCE—CANADA’S MOST-DECORATED WAR HERO—DIED Born in Petersfield, Manitoba, October 25, 1915, Prince joined the Canadian Army in 1940 and served in the Canadian-American “Devil’s Brigade.” At Anzio, he ran a communication line near a German position and, when it was severed, posed as a farmer to fix it. He earned the Military Medal, […]
11/26/2021 @ All Day – OJIBWE POET WRITER HEID E. ERDICH BORN Born in Breckenridge, Minn., raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota, Erdrich graduated from Dartmouth College (1986). Earning Master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in poetry (1989) and fiction (1990), in 2003, she was Mentor of the Year for work with Native Writers and Storytellers. She taught at JHU, […]
11/27/2021 @ All Day – INUK FILMPRODUCER/CARVER ZACHARIAS KUNUK BORN Born in Kapuivik, in the Canadian Arctic, Kunuk’s youth involved summers hunting with his family and winters going to school in Igloolik. Kunuk, in 1982, joined the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation in Igloolik and, by 1991, was senior producer and station manager, as well as an independent producer. In 1991, he […]
11/28/2021 @ All Day – JOHN KAMEAALOHA ALMEIDA- DEAN OF HAWAIIAN MUSIC-BORN John Celestino Almeida Jr. was born in the Pauoa Valley on the island of Oʻahu. Blind by age 10, he moved to Wai’nae where Paulo Kameaaloha became his hānai (traditional) father. Paulo taught him ancient chants and traditional songs. At age 15, John started the Òwai’anae Star Glee […]
11/29/2021 @ 12:00 am – SAND CREEK MASSACRE OF PEACEFUL CHEYENNE Black Kettle, the local chief of a village of approximately 800 Cheyenne Indians, had approached a United States Army fort seeking protection for his people. On November 28, 1864, he was assured that his people would safe at Sand Creek, a territory that had been promised to the Cheyenne […]
11/30/2021 @ All Day – BATTLE OF MILLARAPUE-MAPUCHE WARRIOR GALVARINO THROWN TO DOGS The Battle of Millarapue was intended by the Toqui Caupolicán to be a Mapuche ambush of the Spanish army of García Hurtado de Mendoza. After his victory in the Battle of Lagunillas, Medoza ordered the amputation of the right hand of the captured Mapuche. One Mapuche leader, […]