09/11/2021 @ All Day – MORRIS “MORRIE” THOMPSON, KOYUKON ATHABASKAN LEADER, BUSINESSMAN BORN Born in Tanana, Alaska, “Morrie,” after graduating from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, first worked at RCA’s Gilmore Satellite Tracking Station. A good friend of Governor Walter Hickel, he went to Washington when President Nixon named Hickel as Secretary of the Interior in 1969. Morris initially served […]
09/12/2021 @ All Day – HAIDA CARVER DA*AXIIGANG (CHARLES EDENSHAW) DIED Born circa 1839, in Skidgate, British Columbia (B.C.), Edenshaw, whose Haida name meant “Noise in the Housepit,” learned to carve canoes from his father. He began carving argillite and silver at age 14–the first Haida artist to manipulate silver and gold. He assumed the ceremonial title Chief Eda’nsa in […]
09/13/2021 @ All Day – UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (UNDRIP) ADOPTED The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was adopted by the General Assembly by a majority of 144 states in favor, 4 votes against (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States) and 11 abstentions. By 2016, the four countries voting against […]
09/14/2021 @ All Day – NAVAJO/PUEBLO GOLFER NOTAH BEGAY III BORN The only full-blooded Native American to have been on the PGA TOUR, Notah was born and raised in Albuquerque, NM. At Stanford University, he earned a degree in Economics, won All-American Honors three times, and led the golf team to a National Championship in 1994. He won 4 PGA […]
09/15/2021 @ All Day – SUSQUEHANNOCK ATTACK NEW AMSTERDAM STARTING PEACH TREE WAR In 1655, the dominant Native people in the Delaware River Valley were the Susquehannock. Forming a solid relationship with colony of New Sweden, they distrusted the rival Dutch in New Netherland who had a similar relationship with the Iroquois Confederacy. On September 11, Director-General of New Netherland […]
09/16/2021 @ All Day – KALANIKAUIKAʻALANEO KAI KEŌPŪOLANI-AHU-I-KEKAI-MAKUAHINE-A-KAMA-KALANI-KAU-I- KEALANEO (KEŌPUOLANI)-QUEEN CONSORT OF KAMEHAMEHA I-DIED Born of high rank circa 1778 and raised on Maui by her grandmother Kalola, Keōpūolani married Kamehameha I in 1795. Like Kamehameha’s chief wife Ka’ahumanu, she rebelled against the old ways. When Keopuolani’s daughter Nāhienaena was born, she kept her near, rather than hand her over […]
09/17/2021 @ All Day – FORT LARAMIE TREATY OF 1851 (HORSE CREEK TREATY) WITH THE PLAINS INDIANS SIGNED In early 1851, Congress sought a treaty with Plains Indians to assure peace along the Overland Trails. As over 10,000 Indians gathered, the location was moved from Fort Laramie to Horse Creek on the North Platte River. Present were the Oglala Sioux, […]
09/18/2021 @ All Day – LOKONO JOHN PETER BENNETT ORDAINED–1ST INDIGENOUS ANGLICAN PRIEST IN GUYANA Born at Cabacaburi Anglican mission, on the Pomeroon River, Guyana, on November 30, 1914, Bennett completed his schooling by age 12. However, he read, as he said, “anything that had writing on it.” In 1946, Bennett entered Codrington College, Barbados, making him the college’s first […]
09/19/2021 @ All Day – CANADA’S SUPREME COURT POWLEY DECISION RULES ON MÉTIS HUNTING & FISHING RIGHTS The Powleys, father & son, were charged in 1993 with possession of a moose they’d shot out of season and without a license. They pleaded not guilty claiming that, as Métis, they had Aboriginal rights to hunt not subject to Ontario game laws. The trial […]
09/20/2021 @ All Day – HEILTSUK RENEW PEACE TREATY WITH HAIDA The Heiltsuk and Haida nations initially signed an historic peace treaty at a potlatch in Massett, Haida Gwaii, hosted by Haida Nation chiefs. The two nations historically had some territorial conflicts. The last conflict between the nations occurring in 1852, according to oral history. Following a potlatch a few […]