12/28/2021 @ All Day – HO-CHUNK (WINNEBEGO) SCHOLAR/REFORMER WO-NA-XI-LAY-HUNKA (HENRY ROE CLOUD) BORN Born on the Winnebago Reserve in Nebraska, his name meant “War Chief.” Why he took the name “Henry Cloud” is unknown. The 1st Native American to enter Yale, he earned Bachelor and Master degrees there. Studying divinity, he added a Bachelor (Auburn Theological Seminary, 1913,) and Doctorate […]
12/29/2021 @ All Day – WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE SPOTTED ELK (BIG FOOT) BAND In 1889, the messianic Ghost Dance religion arrived on the Pine Ridge Reservation promising the return of the Messiah, disappearance of white invaders, return of the bison, and raising of the dead. To whites, the Ghost Dance was threatening. In November 1890, President Benjamin Harrison ordered troops […]
12/30/2021 @ All Day – REPUTED-MAYAN AJAW (PALENQUE) K’INICH AHKAL MO’ NAHB III ACCEDED Born in 678 during the reign of his grandfather, Palenque’s long-lived ruler Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I, often referred to as “Pakal the Great,” because he righted the kingdom oversaw a building program that culminated in the Temple of the Inscriptions. Ahkal Moʼ Nahb III initiated a construction program […]
12/31/2021 @ All Day – CHEROKEE U.S. REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM WIRT HASTINGS BORN Born in Benton County, Arkansas, Hastings’s family moved to Beattie’s Prairie, Delaware District, Cherokee Nation. Graduating from Cherokee Male Seminary (1884), he taught school (1884-86) before earning a law degree from Vanderbilt University (1889) and beginning a law partnership in Tahlequah, Indian Territory. Hastings also served the Cherokee […]