01/01/2022 @ All Day – BLACKFOOT MINNIE SPOTTED WOLF DIED—1ST NATIVE AMERICAN FEMALE U.S. MARINE Born in 1923 and raised on a ranch near White Tail Creek, about 15 miles from Heart Butte, Montana, Spotted Wolf grew up doing such ranch work as “cutting fence posts, driving a two-ton truck, and breaking horses.” Compared to breaking horses, she described Marine […]
01/02/2022 @ All Day – CREE PAINTER ALLEN SAPP BORN—GRANDFATHER OF SASKATCHEWAN FIRST NATION ARTS From the Red Pheasant Reserve in north central Saskatchewan, Sapp’s artistic talent, developed while recovering from childhood illnesses, was nurtured by his maternal grandmother. He didn’t learn to read or write as a child, but found his refuge in drawing pictures. As he got older, he attempted […]
01/03/2022 @ All Day – HO CHUNK SHARICE DAVIDS AND LAGUNA PUEBLO DEB HAALAND SWORN IN AS US REPRESENTATIVES–FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN IN CONGRESS The 2018 elections brought to Congress two Native American women—the first Native American women to be seated. Sharice Davids, a Democrat, won Kansas’ 3rd District serving Kansas City, Kansas. Born May 22, 1980, in Frankfurt, Germany, […]
01/04/2022 @ All Day – OGLALA LAKOTA CHIEF ÓGLE ŠÁ (RED SHIRT) DIED Born circa 1847, near present day-Douglas, Wyoming, Red Shirt may have been the son of Red Dog, a progressive leader of the Oyuhpe Lakota band at Pine Ridge. Red Shirt served as a U.S. Army Native Scout with the 4th U.S. Cavalry during the Great Sioux War […]
01/05/2022 @ All Day – CATHERINE H. TROEH BORN– CHINOOK HISTORIAN, ACTIVIST Born in Ilwaco, Washington, Troeh, a member of the Chinook tribe, was a nurse, antique-shop owner, and activist who spent her life supporting the Native cultures in the Northwest. Catherine attended University of Washington and earned a public health degree. Troeh, in the early 1950s, along with Pearl […]
01/06/2022 @ All Day – MEXICAN MAYAN ZAPATISTA COMMANDANTA RAMONA DIED Born in 1959, near San Andrés de Larrainzer, Mexico, Commandanta Ramona (her nom de guerre), with Subcomandante Marcos, started the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) uprising in Chiapas. Ramona, 1 of 7 female commanders of an army that was 1/3 women, was the overall commander. In 1993, she helped […]
01/07/2022 @ All Day – HAWAIIAN PRINCE JONAH KUHIO KALANIANA’OLE DIED-DELEGATE TO U.S. CONGRESS Born in Koloa, Kaua’i, Hawai’i, on March 26, 1871, Jonah was an heir to Kaumuali’i—the last ruling chief of Kaua’i. He attended the Royal School and Punahou College, in Honolulu, before attending St. Matthew’s College, in San Mateo, California. He later attended the Royal Agricultural College […]
01/08/2022 @ All Day – BEOTHUK DEMASDUIT (MARY MARCH) DIED Born circa 1798, Demasduit’s Beothuk people of Newfoundland were dwindling in number. In early 1819, armed fur traders arriving at Red Indian Lake, winter camp of the Beothuk, captured her and later killed her husband, Nonosbawsut, when he attempted to rescue her. Demasduwit was placed in the care of an […]
01/09/2022 @ All Day – MESCALERO APACHE PRESIDENT SARA JANE MISQUEZ DIED Born September 6, 1945, in Mescalero, New Mexico (NM), Misquez grew up in Three Rivers, NM. She earned a degree in business from Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas. Prior to serving as tribal president, Misquez was tribal administrator, a council member, and tribal secretary. She was […]
01/10/2022 @ All Day – MARIE CLEMENTS BORN–MÉTIS PLAYWRIGHT SCREENWRITER Born in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), Clements studied journalism at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta, before working as a radio news reporter in the 1980s. She has written 12 plays. Urban Tattoo, awarded the 2004 Japan Literary Award, is about a 1940s Métis woman who adopts a Jane […]