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25 inspirational quotes for AANHPI Heritage Month. “My mother had a saying: ‘You may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.’”. — Kamala Harris, Vice ...
Suzan Shown Harjo (born June 2, 1945) [1] (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee) is an American advocate for Native American rights. She is a poet, writer, lecturer, curator, and policy advocate who has helped Native peoples recover more than one million acres (4,000 km²) of tribal lands. [2] After co-producing the first American Indian news show in ...
Wilma Mankiller. Wilma Pearl Mankiller (Cherokee: ᎠᏥᎳᏍᎩ ᎠᏍᎦᏯᏗᎯ, romanized: Atsilasgi Asgayadihi; November 18, 1945 – April 6, 2010) was a Native American activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she lived on ...
Chief Seattle's speech. Chief Seattle's speech is one that Chief Seattle probably gave in 1854 to an audience including the first Governor of Washington Territory, the militaristic Isaac Stevens. Though the speech itself is lost to history, many putative versions exist, none of which is particularly reliable.
Contents. Ravens in Native American mythology. The Raven sits on a frog after having rescued children from a flood. Raven Tales are the traditional human and animal creation stories of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. They are also found among Athabaskan -speaking peoples and others.
An Indigenous philosopher is an Indigenous American person who practices philosophy and draws upon the history, culture, language, and traditions of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Many different traditions of philosophy exist in the Americas, and have from Precolumbian times. Indigenous-American philosophical thought consists of a wide ...
Stephen Graham Jones, Blackfeet Tribe, b. 1972. William Jones, Sac and Fox Nation, 1871–1909 [93] Edith Josie, Gwich'in, Canada, 1921–2010 [94] Hugo Jamioy Juagibioy, Kamentsa, Colombia. Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, Seminole Tribe of Florida, April 27, 1923 – January 14, 2011.
The most common of the modern terms to refer to Indigenous peoples of the United States are Indians, American Indians, and Native Americans. Up to the early to mid 18th century, the term Americans was not applied to people of European heritage in North America. Instead it was equivalent to the term Indians.