May 6, 1626 - Manhattan people of the Wappinger Confederacy receive sixty guilders (about $24) from Peter Minuit, Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam, for the island of Manhattan. Manhattan people believed payment was rent for one year.
May 25, 1637 - About 1000 Pequot men, women, and children are massacred by the English of Plymouth colony. The two hundred survivors are sold into slavery.
May 28, 1830 - The Indian Removal Act is passed by Congress
May 23, 1838 - Cherokee removal "Trail of Tears" begins.
May 5, 1969 - N. Scott Momaday wins Pultizer Prize for House Made of Dawn.
Information obtained from the Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, CO. "We ask for nothing more, and will accept nothing less than the U.S. government keeping the promises it has made to Native Americans." - John E. Echohawk, Executive Director, NARF. www.narf.org
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Cobell trust accounting trial is set for Oct. 10
Posted: April 27, 2007
by: Jerry Reynolds / Indian Country Today
WASHINGTON - The new judge in the class action lawsuit over the Individual Indian Money accounts waded into the case publicly April 20, ordering a trial that will begin Oct. 10 ''and continue as long as necessary.''
U.S. District Judge James Robertson will review the methodology and results of the Interior Department's accounting process in open court, with plaintiffs on-hand to test or challenge both. The accounting proceeds from a court finding of 1999, in the case now known as Cobell v. Kempthorne, that the Interior Department had not complied with IIM accounting requirements assigned by Congress in the Indian Trust Management Reform Act of 1994. Robertson expects the trial to demonstrate, among other things, whether the IIM accounting Interior has performed so far has fulfilled, or is fulfilling, the 1994 mandates of Congress; whether the defendants have ''unreasonably delayed'' the accounting; and whether ''further relief, if any, should be ordered.''
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096414952
Click link to read full article.
by: Jerry Reynolds / Indian Country Today
WASHINGTON - The new judge in the class action lawsuit over the Individual Indian Money accounts waded into the case publicly April 20, ordering a trial that will begin Oct. 10 ''and continue as long as necessary.''
U.S. District Judge James Robertson will review the methodology and results of the Interior Department's accounting process in open court, with plaintiffs on-hand to test or challenge both. The accounting proceeds from a court finding of 1999, in the case now known as Cobell v. Kempthorne, that the Interior Department had not complied with IIM accounting requirements assigned by Congress in the Indian Trust Management Reform Act of 1994. Robertson expects the trial to demonstrate, among other things, whether the IIM accounting Interior has performed so far has fulfilled, or is fulfilling, the 1994 mandates of Congress; whether the defendants have ''unreasonably delayed'' the accounting; and whether ''further relief, if any, should be ordered.''
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096414952
Click link to read full article.
Quotes
"Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, 'Never! Never!" -
Tecumseh - Shawnee
Tecumseh - Shawnee
The Forgotten Ear of Corn
Sioux legend:
An Arikara woman was once gathering corn from the field to store away for winter use. She passed from stalk to stalk, tearing off the ears and dropping them into her folded robe. When all was gathered she started to go, when she heard a faint voice, like a child's, weeping and calling:
"Oh, do not leave me! Do not go away without me."
The woman was astonished. "What child can that be?" she asked herself. "What babe can be lost in the cornfield?"
She set down her robe in which she had tied up her corn, and went back to search; but she found nothing.
As she started away she heard the voice again:
"Oh, do not leave me. Do not go away without me."
She searched for a long time. At last in one corner of the field, hidden under the leaves of the stalks, she found one little ear of corn. This it was that had been crying, and this is why all Indian women have since garnered their corn crop very carefully, so that the succulent food product should not even to the last small nubbin be neglected or wasted, and thus displease the Great Mystery.
An Arikara woman was once gathering corn from the field to store away for winter use. She passed from stalk to stalk, tearing off the ears and dropping them into her folded robe. When all was gathered she started to go, when she heard a faint voice, like a child's, weeping and calling:
"Oh, do not leave me! Do not go away without me."
The woman was astonished. "What child can that be?" she asked herself. "What babe can be lost in the cornfield?"
She set down her robe in which she had tied up her corn, and went back to search; but she found nothing.
As she started away she heard the voice again:
"Oh, do not leave me. Do not go away without me."
She searched for a long time. At last in one corner of the field, hidden under the leaves of the stalks, she found one little ear of corn. This it was that had been crying, and this is why all Indian women have since garnered their corn crop very carefully, so that the succulent food product should not even to the last small nubbin be neglected or wasted, and thus displease the Great Mystery.
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Ben Nighthorse Campbell - Born: April 13, 1933 Birthplace: Auburn, California
The only American Indian in Congress, Republican senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell is also a Northern Cheyenne chief. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado in 1987 and served in the U.S. Senate from 1992–2004. Campbell was a leader in policy dealing with natural resources and public lands and initiated legislation to found the National Museum of the American Indian within the Smithsonian Institution. He declined running for a third term in the Senate, citing health and personal reasons. A three-time U.S. judo champion, Campbell was captain of the U.S. Olympic judo team in 1964. He is also a rancher, horse trainer, and jewelry designer.
The only American Indian in Congress, Republican senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell is also a Northern Cheyenne chief. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado in 1987 and served in the U.S. Senate from 1992–2004. Campbell was a leader in policy dealing with natural resources and public lands and initiated legislation to found the National Museum of the American Indian within the Smithsonian Institution. He declined running for a third term in the Senate, citing health and personal reasons. A three-time U.S. judo champion, Campbell was captain of the U.S. Olympic judo team in 1964. He is also a rancher, horse trainer, and jewelry designer.
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