Ish Tak Ha Ba (Sleepy Eye) Chief Sleepy Eye (also known by many approximations of his native name- Ish Tak Ha Ba, Ishtaba, Ish ta hba, Ishtahumba, Eshtahenba, Esh ta hum leah, Isk irk ha ba) was described as a large, good-looking, muscular man who stood over 6 feet tall, had a narrow forehead and drooping eyelids. His great-great grandson, Lazarus Adams, says that his left eye drooped, while other sources claim that both lids were drooping. Regardless, it is because of this facial feature that Chief Ish Tak Ha Ba became known as "Sleepy Eye" . He was remembered as a friendly and compassionate individual by those who met him.
Chief Sleepy Eye was born at Swan Lake in Nicollet County and lived in the area from southern Minnesota to South Dakota during his lifetime. He had one son (one of French cartographer Joseph Nicollet's guides when he explored MN River in 1838) and seven daughters. Sleepy Eye's people initially lived in the Swan Lake area, but later made their home beside the lake which now bears his name. His people moved around southern MN and South Dakota on a seasonal basis.
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/mncultures/sleepyeye.html
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Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Quotes
I will not, I do not need your help. We are free now; we can go where we please. Our fathers were born here. Here they lived, here they died, here are their graves. We will never leave them. -
Old Joseph, Nez Perce
Old Joseph, Nez Perce
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Powwow will honor many tribes, one spirit
By EBONY WINDOM
Published May 3, 2007
TRINITY - Sheryll Kremer had always heard tales about her Cherokee ancestors. Her mother had traced family roots back about a century to a union between a Cherokee woman and German man in rural South Carolina.
And Kremer, 51, says she's always been proud of her American Indian heritage.
So, last January, when Kremer learned about a historical lecture hosted by an American Indian group known as Spirit People, she decided to take part.
And it's changed her life, she says.
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/03/Pasco/Powwow_will_honor_man.shtml
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Published May 3, 2007
TRINITY - Sheryll Kremer had always heard tales about her Cherokee ancestors. Her mother had traced family roots back about a century to a union between a Cherokee woman and German man in rural South Carolina.
And Kremer, 51, says she's always been proud of her American Indian heritage.
So, last January, when Kremer learned about a historical lecture hosted by an American Indian group known as Spirit People, she decided to take part.
And it's changed her life, she says.
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/03/Pasco/Powwow_will_honor_man.shtml
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Weekend powwow to showcase American Indians
By Carl Orth of The Suncoast News (subsidary of the Tampa Tribune)
Published: May 2, 2007
ODESSA, Fla. - "We all come from the same root, but the leaves are all different."
So said the late John "Fire" Lame Deer, a Lakota Sioux author and holy man quoted on the Spirit People Intertribal blog Web site.
Perhaps no truer demonstration of that spirit can be found than the Spirit People Spring Powwow this Friday through Sunday, May 4 - 6.
The powwow will be held at the J.B. Starkey Ranch, in the Odessa area near the intersection of S.R. 54 and Gunn Highway. The public is welcome.
The group has staged fall demonstrations before, but this is the first spring pageant, according to Pamela Waterbird Davison, the public relations agent and spiritual adviser to the group with some 70 members in the area.
http://suncoastpasco.tbo.com/content/2007/may/02/weekend-powwow-showcase-american-indians/?news
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Published: May 2, 2007
ODESSA, Fla. - "We all come from the same root, but the leaves are all different."
So said the late John "Fire" Lame Deer, a Lakota Sioux author and holy man quoted on the Spirit People Intertribal blog Web site.
Perhaps no truer demonstration of that spirit can be found than the Spirit People Spring Powwow this Friday through Sunday, May 4 - 6.
The powwow will be held at the J.B. Starkey Ranch, in the Odessa area near the intersection of S.R. 54 and Gunn Highway. The public is welcome.
The group has staged fall demonstrations before, but this is the first spring pageant, according to Pamela Waterbird Davison, the public relations agent and spiritual adviser to the group with some 70 members in the area.
http://suncoastpasco.tbo.com/content/2007/may/02/weekend-powwow-showcase-american-indians/?news
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Important dates in May
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
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
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
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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
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