09/01/2021 @ All Day – MAYA QUEEN (TIKAL) “LADY OF TIKAL” BORN A Mayan queen of the city of Tikal, she assumed the throne on April 19, 511, at the age of six, but did not rule on her own. Instead, she co-ruled with an individual named Kaloomte’ Bahlam. She likely was the daughter of Chak Tok Ich’aak II. It […]
09/02/2021 @ All Day – TLINGIT ARTIST JAMES “JIM” SCHOPPERT DIED Born May 28, 1947, in Juneau, Alaska, Schoppert earned a Master’s in Fine Arts from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1981. He felt that Native artists should stretch beyond stereotypes. A member of the Washington State Arts Commission, Alaska State Council on the Arts, and Institute of Alaska […]
09/03/2021 @ All Day – HOPI PAINTER, SILVERSMITH MICHAEL KABOTIE BORN Born on the Hopi reservation in Arizona, Kabotie lived there until the reservation high school closed. After his junior year at Haskell Indian School in Kansas, he spent the summer with the Southwest Indian Art Project at the University of Arizona (UA). At UA, he studied engineering but left […]
09/04/2021 @ All Day – IPPERWASH CRISIS BEGINS IN ONTARIO For the duration of World War II, the Canadian Government expropriated reserve land from the Ojibwe of Kettle and Stoney Point First Nation to use for military training. In the 1980s, the training facility was still in use. The First Nation sought the land’s return and claimed that adjacent Ipperwash […]
09/05/2021 @ All Day – INCAN DESCENDANT JOSÉ MANUEL GUTIÉRREZ GUERRA, PRESIDENT OF BOLIVIA, BORN Born in Sucre, Chile, Guerra was scion of two aristocratic families from Chuquisaca, Bolivia, who traced family descents from Incan royalty. In England, he studied under the Jesuits at Stonyhurst College and graduated from Merton College, Oxford, in 1890. Returning to Bolivia, he entered politics […]
09/06/2021 @ All Day – OGALALA LEADER TȞAŠÚŊKE WITKÓ (CRAZY HORSE) IS KILLED AT FORT ROBINSON Born in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1841 and son of an Oglala Sioux shaman also named Crazy Horse, he was called “Curly Hair” as a child. After an 1858 battle with the Arapaho, he was given his father’s name. In 1866, […]
09/07/2021 @ All Day – HOPI POTTER DEXTRA QUOTSKUYVA NAMPEYO BORN Born in Polacca, Arizona, Dextra was in the fifth generation of a distinguished ancestral line of Hopi potters: Great-granddaughter of Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo of Hano who revived Sikyátki style pottery and the daughter of Rachel Namingha (1903–1985), another notable Hopi-Tewa potter. Dextra began her artistic career in 1967. At […]
09/08/2021 @ All Day – NATIVE HAWAIIAN COMPOSER COLORATURA SOPRANO HELEN DESHA BEAMER BORN Born in Honolulu, Hawai’i, her ancestors included Ahiakumai Ki’eki’e, Queen of the island of Hawai’i and daughter of Kameiamoku, the favored wife of Kamehameha I. Her love of music started at an early age and she became an accomplished musician, singer and composer. Helen was gifted […]
09/09/2021 @ All Day – PUEBLO ARTIST QUAH AH (TONITA PENA) DIED Born May 10, 1893, in San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, Tonita, whose Pueblo name meant “White Coral Beads,” was raised by her aunt, Martina Vigil, a Cochití Pueblo potter. By age 17, Tonita was a professional artist. An instructor at both the Santa Fe and Albuquerque Indian Schools, […]
09/10/2021 @ All Day – THE GREAT NORTHERN CHEYENNE EXODUS FROM OKLAHOMA BEGINS After the Great Sioux War, in 1877, 900 Northern Cheyenne were sent to the Darlington Agency (in modern Oklahoma) to join their kinsmen, the Southern Cheyenne. After measles killed 2/3 of their number, Little Wolf and Dull Knife led an escape from the agency through Oklahoma, Kansas, […]