Charles Albert "Chief" Bender (May 5, 1884 - May 22, 1954) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball during the first two decades of the 20th century. He is also a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Bender was born in Crow Wing County, Minnesota as a member of the Ojibwa tribe - he faced discrimination throughout his career, not least of which was the stereotyped nickname ("Chief") by which he is almost exclusively known today. After graduating from Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Bender went on to a stellar career as a starting pitcher from 1903 to 1917, primarily with Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics (though with stints at the end of his career with the Baltimore Terrapins of the short-lived Federal League, the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Chicago White Sox).
Over his career, his win-loss record was 212-127, for a .625 winning percentage (a category in which he would lead the American League in three seasons). His talent was even more noticeable in the high-pressure environment of the World Series: in five trips to the championship series, he managed six wins and a 2.44 ERA. In the 1911 Series, he pitched three complete games, which set the record for most complete games pitched in a six-game series. He also threw a no-hitter in 1910.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Faces on defaced Port Angeles mural cleaned of vandalism
By: Paige Dickerson
PORT ANGELES - With soft rags and acetone, two Nor'wester Rotary Club volunteers and two city workers on Tuesday wiped away paint that defaced a City Pier mural of the Klallam village of Y'ennis.
The four men, Doc Reiss and Ted Groves with the Rotary Club and Brian Flores and Leon Leonard with the city of Port Angeles, removed the black paint which on Thursday night was sprayed on the mural on the outside of the Arthur D. Feiro Marine Lab.
The paint blacked out Native American faces, and was used to write obscenities, a declaration of "white power" and a crudely drawn "devil face.
"The faces of the people in the painting are based on real members of the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe, many of whom are still alive.
Port Townsend artist Cory Ench, who painted the mural in 1998 for the Nor'wester Rotary Club, plans to evaluate the remaining damage and make any needed repairs early next year, Reiss said.
Read more here: http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20071212/NEWS/712120303
PORT ANGELES - With soft rags and acetone, two Nor'wester Rotary Club volunteers and two city workers on Tuesday wiped away paint that defaced a City Pier mural of the Klallam village of Y'ennis.
The four men, Doc Reiss and Ted Groves with the Rotary Club and Brian Flores and Leon Leonard with the city of Port Angeles, removed the black paint which on Thursday night was sprayed on the mural on the outside of the Arthur D. Feiro Marine Lab.
The paint blacked out Native American faces, and was used to write obscenities, a declaration of "white power" and a crudely drawn "devil face.
"The faces of the people in the painting are based on real members of the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe, many of whom are still alive.
Port Townsend artist Cory Ench, who painted the mural in 1998 for the Nor'wester Rotary Club, plans to evaluate the remaining damage and make any needed repairs early next year, Reiss said.
Read more here: http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20071212/NEWS/712120303
Appeals court rehears San Francisco Peaks case
The U.S. Forest Service faced skeptical questions from a federal appeals court on Tuesday about the use of reclaimed sewage in the sacred San Francisco Peaks in Arizona.
Under the Bush administration, the agency approved the expansion of a ski resort in the Coconino National Forest. The Arizona Snowbowl wants to use reclaimed wastewater to make snow and attract more visitors.
The Navajo Nation, the Hopi Tribe and other tribes in the Southwest are fighting the Forest Service's decision. They say the treated sewage will desecrate the peaks, where they go to pray, hold ceremonies and gather medicinal plants and herbs.
Some judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals appeared sympathetic to the tribes' views. Their questions essentially accepted as fact that the use of the reclaimed wastewater will harm the sanctity of the peaks.
The key issue, then, is whether the Forest Service's action violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The law was designed to protect Native and other practitioners from government actions that infringe on their religious rights.
Click here to read the full article: http://www.indianz.com/News/2007/006305.asp
Under the Bush administration, the agency approved the expansion of a ski resort in the Coconino National Forest. The Arizona Snowbowl wants to use reclaimed wastewater to make snow and attract more visitors.
The Navajo Nation, the Hopi Tribe and other tribes in the Southwest are fighting the Forest Service's decision. They say the treated sewage will desecrate the peaks, where they go to pray, hold ceremonies and gather medicinal plants and herbs.
Some judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals appeared sympathetic to the tribes' views. Their questions essentially accepted as fact that the use of the reclaimed wastewater will harm the sanctity of the peaks.
The key issue, then, is whether the Forest Service's action violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The law was designed to protect Native and other practitioners from government actions that infringe on their religious rights.
Click here to read the full article: http://www.indianz.com/News/2007/006305.asp
Converting the rock
By: Sarah Phelan
Native American spiritual leader Marshall "Golden Eagle" Jack admits he was just a kid in 1969 when a group of American Indians occupied Alcatraz Island. They claimed that the island's reclassification as surplus property following the 1963 closure of Alcatraz Prison entitled them to take possession of the iconic island.
But Jack says he knows enough people from the American Indian Movement, which began advocating for urban Indians in the late '60s, to understand that "the people standing up for their rights back then didn't have enough clout in the legal system" to keep the island and build an American Indian cultural center on its craggy slopes.
Instead, the island became part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which is operated by the National Park Service. Today it attracts 1.
5 million visitors per year, the GGNRA's chief of public affairs, Rich Weideman, says. But having a brutal former prison as one of San Francisco's top tourist attractions is unsettling to some.
So Jack and AIM founder Dennis Banks, Chief Avrol Looking Horse, Laynee Bluebird Woman, and Rose Mary Cambra of the Muwekma Ohlone tribe have sponsored Proposition C, a nonbinding declaration on the February 2008 ballot that would make it city policy to explore acquiring Alcatraz Island and setting up a global peace center in place of the prison.
Want to know more? Click here: http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=5172&catid=&volume_id=317&issue_id=329&volume_num=42&issue_num=11
Native American spiritual leader Marshall "Golden Eagle" Jack admits he was just a kid in 1969 when a group of American Indians occupied Alcatraz Island. They claimed that the island's reclassification as surplus property following the 1963 closure of Alcatraz Prison entitled them to take possession of the iconic island.
But Jack says he knows enough people from the American Indian Movement, which began advocating for urban Indians in the late '60s, to understand that "the people standing up for their rights back then didn't have enough clout in the legal system" to keep the island and build an American Indian cultural center on its craggy slopes.
Instead, the island became part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which is operated by the National Park Service. Today it attracts 1.
5 million visitors per year, the GGNRA's chief of public affairs, Rich Weideman, says. But having a brutal former prison as one of San Francisco's top tourist attractions is unsettling to some.
So Jack and AIM founder Dennis Banks, Chief Avrol Looking Horse, Laynee Bluebird Woman, and Rose Mary Cambra of the Muwekma Ohlone tribe have sponsored Proposition C, a nonbinding declaration on the February 2008 ballot that would make it city policy to explore acquiring Alcatraz Island and setting up a global peace center in place of the prison.
Want to know more? Click here: http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=5172&catid=&volume_id=317&issue_id=329&volume_num=42&issue_num=11
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
