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Hist->ModernDayHeroes: Voice your opinion on renaming Squaw Peak to 'Piestewa Peak'
Posted on Thursday, April 03 @ 22:49:04 PST (323 reads)

AUTHOR: Connie Cone Sexton

Will feds pick 'Piestewa Peak'? Board to vote on idea as 5-year wait ends. It's not too late to voice your opinion, but time is running out.

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Hist->ModernDayHeroes: Native american code talkers came from 17 tribes, not just Navajo
Posted on Monday, March 26 @ 08:50:27 PST (3379 reads)

AUTHOR: Phillip R. Quochytewa III, Kykotsmovi

On March 5, the Arizona Senate passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 1010 urging Congress to establish a new postage stamp honoring three groups of veterans who fought bravely for our country: The Tuskegee Airmen, the Japanese American soldiers and the Navajo Code Talkers.

In a quest to honor those who have not been adequately recognized for their honor and bravery, this proposed legislation has one dishonorable flaw: It excludes the other 16 Native American tribes who sent men to serve as Code Talkers in World War I and World War II, including the Hopi Tribe from Arizona.

Here are the facts:

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Hist->ModernDayHeroes: Oklahoma Hall of Fame seeks Indian nominations
Posted on Friday, February 04 @ 11:09:23 PST (7620 reads)

Oklahoma Hall of Fame seeks Indian nominations... KEYWORDS: oklahoma hall of fame modern day heroes Indian hero Wilma Mankiller Alice Brown Davis Robert L. Owen Fred Lookout

Here is your chance to nominate a fellow Native American to join what is already a prestigious list. Officials with the Oklahoma Hall of Fame are seeking nominations. The rules limit the number of living inductees to eight, in addition to one posthumous induction. The 2005 class of honorees will be inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame on Thursday, November 17 during a televised ceremony in Oklahoma City.

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Hist->ModernDayHeroes: Do you know this modern day hero?
Posted on Tuesday, October 19 @ 12:03:05 PDT (6956 reads)

Do you know this modern day hero?.. KEYWORDS: native american veteran medic Viet Nam modern day hero looking for veteran who served in Vietnam as a medic

' AUTHOR: Slater Davis

Do you know this native american who served as a medic in Vietnam?

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I am looking for my platoon medic who served in Vietnam with 4th Platoon, Co.B, 4th Bn, 21st Inf, Americal Divsion, Duc Pho, RVN, between December 1970- June 1971. Please take a look at these pictures, and contact me if you know this man.

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Hist->ModernDayHeroes: Red Lake Reservation teacher crowned Miss Indian World
Posted on Tuesday, May 11 @ 10:51:50 PDT (4935 reads)

KEYWORDS: Miss Indian World 2004 Gathering of Nations Powwow Red Lake Reservation Minnesota Eskimo Anishinaabeg people Athabascan people people of Minnesota Reservation notable people modern day heroes Indian woman of note jingle dress dancing jingle dress dance story of the dream catcher Nokomis and the spider

AUTHOR: Doreen Yellowbird

When Delena Smith entered the coliseum in Albuquerque, N.M., for the Gathering of Nations Powwow, she found the drum beats, bells, jingles and rattle sounds of 5,000 dancers and 100 drum groups awesome.

Smith, 23, a Head Start teacher on Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota, walked out of the largest Indian event in the nation April 24 with the crown of Miss Indian World.

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Hist->ModernDayHeroes: Hopi Warrior
Posted on Monday, October 27 @ 22:36:25 PST (5721 reads)

Anonymous writes A Warrior has fallen...
A Warrior has fallen...
Fallen far from her home...
upon the sands of a foreign land.
Iraq... a land of sun and sand.

Note: Pfc. Lori Piestewa, a member of the Hopi Nation, was the first American woman to die in the war in Iraq.

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Hist->ModernDayHeroes: More than 12,000 Natives in military
Posted on Wednesday, April 02 @ 18:15:24 PST (8172 reads)

KEYWORDS: Iraq war native american warriors american indians in the military american Indian tribes in Iraq war

There are more than 12,000 American Indians, Alaska Natives and Canadian Aboriginals serving in the U.S. military, according to data published in the Wall Street Journal.

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Hist->ModernDayHeroes: Ft. Belknap man finds Columbia data recorder
Posted on Tuesday, March 25 @ 21:50:38 PST (3694 reads)

KEYWORDS: Columbia data recorder columbia space shuttle wreck space shuttle black box Ft Belknap firefighters Chauncy Birdtail

AUTHOR: Jan-Mikael Patterson, Tribune Staff Writer

FORT BELKNAP -- A firefighter from Fort Belknap found what is potentially the most important piece of debris from the space shuttle Columbia.

Chauncy Birdtail, 25, found the data recorder last Wednesday near Hemphill, Texas, about 60 miles east of Nacogdoches.

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Hist->ModernDayHeroes: Wounded Knee warrior tells his story
Posted on Thursday, February 27 @ 10:15:26 PST (4167 reads)

KEYWORDS: AIM story warrior story Carter Camp Ponca warrior Remembering Wounded Knee 1973 Independent Oglala Nation Ponca Nation AIM

Carter Camp, Ponca Warrior

Remembering Wounded Knee 1973

Ah-ho My Relations,

Today is heavy with prayer and reminisces for me. Not only are those who walk for the Yellowstone Buffalo reaching their destination, today is the anniversary of the night when, at the direction of the Oglala Chiefs, I went with a special squad of warriors to liberate Wounded Knee in advance of the main AIM caravan.

For security reasons the people had been told everyone was going to a meeting/wacipi in Porcupine, the road goes through Wounded Knee.

When the People arrived at the Trading Post we had already set up a perimeter, taken eleven hostages, run the B.I.A. cops out of town, cut most phone lines, and began 73 days of the best, most free time of my life.

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Hist->ModernDayHeroes: Traditional War Stories & Wounded Knee 1973
Posted on Thursday, February 27 @ 10:02:03 PST (8494 reads)

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AUTHOR: Carter Camp, Ponca Nation

Many of our people have forgotten the traditional way "War Stories" are used and respected in the sacred ceremonies of the people of the Sundance and Pipe, we who have always lived in the center of our turtle island. Long ago our wise ancestors understood that a powerful moment in time existed when a warrior performed a great deed and tested himself to the ultimate.

In english we call them war stories but in our own languages the story and the person chosen to tell it have names with far more meaning. War stories are actually "Warrior Stories" because they are told individually by the warrior who is bringing his actions into the circle.

They are told in front of witnesses who can attest to their truth because the story must exemplify the great virtues of a warrior... honor, truth, courage, fortitude, strength and selflessness give the 'war story' a power that can serve the needs of the ceremony.

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Hist->ModernDayHeroes: American Indian code talkers not just in WW II
Posted on Sunday, December 22 @ 14:35:53 PST (5567 reads)

KEYWORDS: American Indian code talkers WWII World War II languages of different American Indian tribes code talkers Choctaw from the Oklahoma 36th Infantry Division Chippewa Oneida Comanche Sac and Fox Mesquakie Hopi Assiniboine Cherokee Chocktaw Kiowa Pawnee Sioux Dakota Lakota Menominee Muscogee Creek Seminole Marine Corps Navajo code talkers Native American Veterans Oral History Project

AUTHOR: Bernard Bossom and Willian C. Meadows

Many Americans have recently been introduced to the American Indian code talkers of World War II. However, like the blind man who touched an elephants trunk and described that animal as being long and tubular, the current vision of the code talkers is incomplete.

There were 17 tribes, not just one, that provided our military forces in the battlefield with this direct form of voice radio communication.

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Hist->ModernDayHeroes: First native american in space
Posted on Saturday, November 09 @ 11:05:22 PST (6754 reads)

KEYWORDS: John Herrington American astronaut where do astronauts come from first native american in space NASA space shuttle launch American Indians in space modern day heroes US astronaut STS-113 Endeavour space shuttle mission 16th Shuttle flight International Space Station Chickasaw Tribe tribe chickasaw Chickasaw NationWetumka, Oklahoma

AUTHOR: Raven SiJohn

The question, "Where do astronauts come from," is often asked. At least one is from the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma.

Born in 1958 in Wetumka, Oklahoma, John Herrington is a member of the Chickasaw tribe. His father taught him to fly an airplane when he was four years old.

John Herrington is the first tribally registered Native American astronaut. He has logged over 3,000 flight hours in over 30 different types of aircraft.

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Hist->ModernDayHeroes: Truth and consequences on the reservation--the Elouise Cobell story
Posted on Sunday, July 07 @ 21:30:52 PDT (12517 reads)

KEYWORDS: Elouise Cobell Native Americans on payments for land rights Blackfoot Tribe Blackfoot Indians Blackfoot country Blackfeet Blackfoot reservation town of Browning MT Blackfoot Nation U.S. Indian agent, John Young Ghost Ridge Native Americans Baker's Massacre Montana's Marias River Piegans Dawes Act Cobell vs. Interior Department David Matheson tribes banking lawyer Dennis Gingold Misplaced Trust: The Bureau of Indian Affairs' Mismanagement of the Indian Trust Fund Otto Bremer Foundation John D. MacArthur Foundation Lannan grant

AUTHOR: J. MICHAEL KENNEDY, Times Staff Writer
Reprinted under Fair Use

Elouise Cobell heard the stories for years: the government was cheating Native Americans on payments for land rights. She took up the cause, and now the Blackfoot Indians are poised to reap billions.

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