Her father was a Mohawk chief and her mother was an English immigrant. In 1909, she moved to Vancouver, where she spent the rest of her life and worked with her friend Chief Joe Capilano of the Squamish people to publish his stories under the title Legends of Vancouver.
E. Pauline Johnson, c. 1885–95
Born on this day in 1861, Tekahionwake (Emily Pauline Johnson), Six Nations poet, author, performer and editor.
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Tecumseh's 1st major campaign was the Northwest Territory War- he and Little Turtle's SIL W.Wells + Nonhelenma's son all were apart of the small sharpshooter cadre that took down US officers during St.Clairs Defeat.
Tecumseh is remembered and beloved in popular history today among colonized peoples the world over.
Tecumseh traveled far and worked tirelessly for the formation of a strong confederacy. In the War of 1812, Tecumseh joined his cause with the British, recruited warriors, and helped capture Detroit in August 1812. He was killed by the US Army at the Battle of the Thames on October 5, 1813.
In 1808, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa established Prophetstown, a village in present-day Indiana, that grew into a large, multi-tribal community.
In 1805, Tecumseh's younger brother Tenskwatawa, who came to be known as the Shawnee Prophet, founded a religious movement that called upon Native Americans to reject European influences and return to a more traditional lifestyle.
In a famous 1810 meeting, Tecumseh accosts William Henry Harrison when he refuses to rescind the Treaty of Fort Wayne. by John R. Chapin
Born on this day in 1768, Shawnee chief and warrior, Tecumseh, who formed a powerful confederacy of Indigenous peoples and promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands.
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As chairman he led the co-management of fisheries and shellfish resources between Native governments and the state and federal wildlife managers.
After the Boldt decision was upheld by the US Supreme Court, securing 50% of the salmon catch for treaty fishers, Billy would serve as chairman of Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission for over 30 years.
First arrested as a 14 year old in 1945 for fishing 'off-reservation', Billy would go on to be arrested over 50 times for exercising his treaty rights.
Billy Frank Jr. (1931-2014), Nisqually activist and leader during the fish-ins, 1973 Courtesy Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
Born on this day in 1931, Nisqually citizen, treaty fishing rights warrior, front lines fighter in the fish wars, and salmon management advocate, Billy Frank Jr.
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The occupation led to 20 acres being granted to the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation and the construction of the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, which is still active today.
"The only social services were provided by an organization of Indian women, operating from an old church, existing primarily on donations and volunteer help. The organization was the American Indian Women’s Service League."
"Before the invasions and occupations, which lasted approximately three months, there were no Federal, State, County, or City funds available for services to Native Americans in Seattle."
"The March 8, 1970 invasion and occupation of Fort Lawton, an active military base in the northwest section of Seattle, was an attempt by Seattle’s Native American community to establish a land base to serve the largest urban Native American population west of Tulsa and north of San Francisco."
As Bernie Whitebear (Sinixt/Colville) describes it...
Fort Lawton takeover
On this day in 1970, the United Indians of All Tribes retake Fort Lawton in Seattle.
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#tdih 1971
A cab driver, day care provider, and two professors broke into FBI office in Media, Penn.
They removed docs that exposed COINTELPRO campaign to disrupt & destroy a wide range of activist groups, especially civil rights orgs.
Read⬇️ 🧵#TeachTruth
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Inkpaduta
On this day in 1857, Inkpaduta's band of Wahpekute Dakota, struggling to hunt for food, began a series of raids on settlers in Iowa, killing some and taking others prisoner. Inkpaduta went on to take part in the Battle of Little Bighorn and then fled to Canada.
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#tdih 1965 Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama.
While corporate media focused on the march, the violence against African Americans had a long history.
So did the organizing by Black sharecroppers, teachers, students, & more.
Read about the UNIA, DCVL, SNCC ⬇️.
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Today we remember the children stolen from their families and every Native parent who tried to prevent this from happening to them and their children.
Mormons and the church continue to try to excuse this Act and their enslaving practices today by leaning on patronizing and assimilationist myths that the Mormons were somehow helping Native children by removing them from their communities and enslaving them.
This genocidal Act is hard to quantify but by 1857 there were at least 400 enslaved Native Americans in Utah.
Brigham Young encouraged the local slave trade while also informing Mexico he wished to stop the trade with Mexico. As a result of this Act many early Mormon families stole Native children and kept them in their homes.
Before this act, Mormon settlers had enslaved many Native peoples including en masse such as at the Battle of Fort Utah, a massacre conducted by Mormons where over 40 Timpanogos children, women, and a few men were sold to church members as slaves.
Three slaves were a part of the very first party of settlers and more came later. When Utah became a part of the United States at the end of the Mexican-American war in 1848, Mormon leaders sought to legalize their slaving practices.
Although slavery was illegal in the area now known as Utah while it was a part of Mexico, a slave trade in Indigenous people existed and the Mormon settlers took part and encouraged it. In fact, when Mormon settlers first arrived in Utah in 1847, they came with enslaved Africans.
Brigham Young photographed by Charles Roscoe Savage, 1855
On this day in 1852, the enslavement of Native Americans was legalized by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, in a law euphemistically titled, An Act for the relief of Indian Slaves and Prisoners.
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American recognition of their petition came soon after in January 1962. After recognition he served as Tribal Chairman until 1985. He also opposed construction of i-75 through the Everglades. He lived to be 94.
