08/01/2022 @ All Day – ACTOR JOSEPH JASON NAMAKAEHA MOMOA BORN Raised in Norwalk, Iowa, by his mother, Jason was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and is of Native Hawaiian descent. After high school, he moved to Hawaii and landed a lead role in the TV series Baywatch (1989). In 1999, after the show ended, Jason traveled around the world before […]
08/02/2022 @ All Day – BAD AXE MASSACRE OF SAUK AND FOX The discovery of lead brought miners into lands ceded to the Sauk and Fox by an 1804 treaty. The Black Hawk War began when his “British Band” of Sauk and Fox, Kickapoo, Ho-Chunk, and Potawatomi defeated the Illinois militia at Stillman’s Run in May of 1832. By June, […]
08/03/2022 @ All Day – PRESIDENT WILSON PROCLAIMS CASA GRANDE RUINS A NATIONAL MONUMENT Casa Grande is located near Coolidge, Arizona. The ancestral Sonoran Desert people who built it developed irrigation farming & had extensive trade connections which lasted over a thousand years until about 1450 C.E. when it was abandoned. Historic accounts of the Casa Grande begin with Padre […]
08/04/2022 @ All Day – NISGA’A TREATY WITH BRITISH COLUMBIA On August 4, 1998, a land-claim stemming from 1887 was settled by treaty between the Nisga’a, the government of British Columbia, and the Government of Canada. The treaty settled a successful law suit brought in 1969 by Nisga’a Tribal Council President Frank Calder [Calder v. British Columbia]. As part of […]
08/05/2022 @ All Day – MI’KMAQ FILMMAKER SONGWRITER FOLK SINGER WILLIE DUNN DIED Born in Montreal, August 14, 1941, Dunn took up guitar at 15. After 3 years in the army, he started playing folk and protest music in Greenwich Village. In 1968, The Ballad of Crowfoot, his film about the 19th Century Blackfoot chief, won 7 international awards, including […]
08/06/2022 @ All Day – TLINGIT ETHNOLOGIST STOOWUKÁA (LOUIS V. SHOTRIDGE) DIED Born April 15, 1883, in Klukwan, Alaska, Louis was from two prominent Tlingit families. He met his future wife, Florence, while at high school in Haines, Alaska. In 1905, the governor sent Florence to the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon, to demonstrated Chilkat weaving. Accompanying […]
08/07/2022 @ All Day – TLINGIT NATIVE RIGHTS ACTIVIST/EDUCATOR KAA.OOSTI (ANDREW P. HOPE III) DIED Born in 1950, Hope’s family was known for its role in Alaskan Native politics with both the Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska and Alaska Native Brotherhood. Andrew was also involved, but also focused on poetry & tribal knowledge. Earning a […]
08/08/2022 @ All Day – CHEROKEE OAU NAH JUSAH (FRANKLIN GRITTS) BORN—ARTIST & EDUCATOR Born in Vian, Oklahoma (OK), his name meant “They Have Returned.” He was age 8 when forced to attend school. He loved learning, had a talent for art and sports. After high school, Franklin spent 2 years at Bacone College in Muskogee, OK, focusing on Indian art […]
08/09/2022 @ All Day – CHEROKEE OAU NAH JUSAH (FRANKLIN GRITTS) BORN—ARTIST & EDUCATOR Born in Park Hill, Oklahoma, descendant of Chief John Ross, Mary’s Bachelor’s degree came from Northeastern State Teachers College. She taught math & science, clerked, and was girl’s advisor at Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, before earning a Master’s degree in math at Univ. […]