09/21/2021 @ All Day – HAWAIIAN FALSETTO SINGER BENNY KALAMA DIED Born June 29, 1916, on the Big Island, Hawai’i, Benny, in addition to being a famed falsetto singer, was also an arranger, composer, musician and recording artist. He played ukulele, bass guitar, and steel guitar. In the 1930s, Benny started his musical career with Leonard “Red” Hawk and The […]
09/22/2021 @ All Day – STATUE HONORING PUEBLO LEADER PO’PAY (POPE’) UNVEILED IN ROTUNDA Born circa 1630 in what is now New Mexico, Po’Pay led the 1680 Pueblo Revolt against the Spanish which helped ensure survival of the Pueblo culture and shaped the history of the region. In 1997, the New Mexico Legislature chose him as the subject of the […]
09/23/2021 @ All Day – GREAT BRITAIN PAYS OJIBWE CHIEFS $8,500 FOR WHAT IS NOW TORONTO At Carrying Place on the Bay of Quinte, Sir John Johnson of the British Indian Department and Deputy Surveyor General John Collins met Mississauga chiefs Wabikane, Neace, and Pakquan and agreed to pay the Ojibwa £1,700 (currently about $200,000), for the land currently comprising […]
09/24/2021 @ All Day – SAINT HERMAN OF ALASKA ARRIVES AT KODIAK ISLAND ALASKA Russian Orthodox Christianity has had played a significant role in many Alaskan Native communities. Russian colonization of Alaska began in 1741 and the resulting “fur rush” (1741-98) brought Russian frontiersmen to the Aleutian Islands. Herman, who was born in Serpukhov about 1756, was serving at the Valaam Monastery […]
09/25/2021 @ All Day – EXPLORER JONATHAN CARVER MEETS FEMALE HO-CHUNK CHIEF HO-POE-KAW Ho-poe-kaw, whose Ho-Chunk name meant “glory of the morning,” grew up on Doty Island (current Menasha, Wisconsin). The 1st woman mentioned in Wisconsin hitory, she became chief around 1727, at age 18. In 1728, she married a French officer named Descaris. The French were harassed by the […]
09/26/2021 @ All Day – GUATEMALAN MAYAN ARTIST ANIBAL LÓPEZ DIED Born to a Maya family from San Marcos on April 13, 1964, López had to fend for himself very early and his studies ended in middle school. Migrating illegally to the U.S., he took jobs as a workman before returning to Guatemala and enrolling in the National School of […]
09/27/2021 @ All Day – TLINGIT WEAVER CHAS’ KOOWU TLA’A (TERI ROFKAR) BORN Born in San Rafael, California, Rofkar was introduced as a child to Tlingit weaving by her maternal grandmother, Eliza Moses Mork. She also learned from Delores Churchill (Haida), Ernestine Hanlon-Abel (Tlingit) and Cheryl Samuel. Rofkar harvested and wove using traditional Tlingit methods and saw the pure science […]
09/28/2021 @ All Day – SAULTEAUX CHIEF PEGUIS (WILLIAM KING) DIED Born near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, circa 1774, Peguis moved west with his family after a 1781 smallpox epidemic that killed thousands of Ojibwe in the Great Lakes region. Eventually, they joined the Red Lake Ojibwe Band in current Minnesota. As chief, he moved his tribe to what is […]
09/29/2021 @ All Day – GREENLAND INUIT LYRICIST, PAINTER INTEL’ERAQ (HENNING JAKOB HENRIK LUND) BORN Born in Nanortalik, Greenland, Lund grew up near a community of relocated East Greenlandic Inuit. Of mixed Inuit/European descent, he learned to love music and poetry through both his family and a local German Moravian mission. After attending the Danish Lutheran seminary in Godthaab, Lund […]
09/30/2021 @ All Day – CARRIER LEADER MARY JOHN, SR. DIED Born in Lheidli, British Columbia (B.C.), June 15, 1913, Mary grew up in Saik’uz, B.C. Leaving school at age 14 and married at 16, she bore 12 children. Joining B.C. Homemakers Association in 1942, she was the first President of the Saik’uz chapter and later district president. In the […]