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Brokenhead Ojibway Nation is governed by the Act Electoral System of government. The current leadership is Chief Gordon Bluesky and Councillors Allen (Sam) Hocaluk, Christopher Kent, Wendell Sinclair Jr (Ogimma)and Remi Olson. The Chief's and Councillors' two-year elected term began on April 18, 2022, and will conclude in April 2024.
He died of heart disease on September 7, 1855, at La Pointe. [25] Members of his band blamed his death on the government officials' conduct. Kechewaishke was described as "head and the chief of the Chippewa Nation" and a man respected "for his rare integrity, wisdom in council, power as an orator, and magnanimity as a warrior."
Chief Justice of the Crow Tribe (2007–2011) Montana: inactive: Fred W. Gabourie (Seneca people) [17] [18] [19] Los Angeles County Municipal Court (appointed 1976) California: retired: Carrie Garrow [20] St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Court New York: active: Tina Glory-Jordan [21] Cherokee Nation Supreme Court Justice (2023–present) Oklahoma: active
Tommy Prince was the grandson of Chief Henry Prince, [7] also known as Mis-koo-kenew or Red Eagle, a son of Chief Peguis, who was an original signatory and a principal negotiator of First Nations Treaty 1 at Lower Fort Garry, Manitoba on behalf of the Peguis or Saulteaux tribe on 3 August 1871. [8]
Ellen Ash Peters, who was the first woman to serve as Connecticut's chief justice and wrote the majority opinion in the state Supreme Court's landmark school desegregation ruling in 1996, has died.
O.J. Simpson, whose rise and fall from American football hero to murder suspect to prison inmate fueled a public drama that obsessed the nation, has died. O.J. Simpson, whose murder trial riveted ...
William Yellowhead, or "Musquakie" or "Misquuckkey" (Miskwaaki or Miskwaa-aki: Red-earth), as he was known in Ojibwe (other attested names include "Mayawassino" and "Waisowindebay" (Wezaawindibe: Yellow-head)) was the "head chief" of the Chippaweans of Lakes Huron and Simcoe and leader of the Deer clan of that people [2] from 1817 until his death in 1864. [3]
Thomas Gumbleton, a Catholic bishop in Detroit who for decades was an international voice against war and racism and an advocate for labor and social justice, died Thursday. Gumbleton's death was ...