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Multimedia Artist - Carolyn.................................. Mvskoke-Chickasaw, Feminist, RESISTer
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Hello and thank you for subscribing to my zine. I hope that by providing information and my art, you have learned something new.

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-Carolyn

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Native American Heritage Month
National Native American Heritage Month, also referred to as National American Indian Heritage Month, began as Native American Awareness Week, authorized by Congress in 1976 after six decades of efforts to achieve official federal recognition of the contributions of Native Americans. Since 1995, the President has made an annual proclamation encouraging Americans to use November to learn more about Native American culture.
While the word “Indian” has a complicated and uncomfortable history, many Native people now embrace the term. Others prefer to describe themselves as “indigenous” or use the term “Native American.” That said, people categorized by the U.S. Census as “American Indian/Alaska Native” make up an incredibly diverse group from hundreds of sovereign nations with varied cultures, traditions and beliefs. As always, it is best to ask the individual’s preference in naming.
Native American culture is in the midst of an upswing of energy and activism. Increasingly, language revitalization programs are teaching Native American languages to new generations. Groups of indigenous people from several tribal nations have worked to reconstruct traditional dietary practices. And environmental activism across many tribal communities has galvanized indigenous groups around the issue of protecting their lands and the earth.
There are 573 federally recognized Indian Nations (variously called tribes, nations, bands, pueblos, communities and native villages) in the United States (source www.ncai.org). In addition, there are hundreds of tribes that have been recognized by individual states, and many others that have received no official
recognition at all. Maryland was once home to a number of prominent tribes,
including the Algonquin, Iroquois and Nanticoke. There are now no federally recognized tribes in Maryland, though the state has recognized two branches of the Piscataway tribe, who once lived throughout the Chesapeake region.
Tribal nations are sovereign in their interactions with the United States, usually managing their own health care systems, law enforcement and basic infrastructure. (A federal agency, the Indian Health Service, does provide health care for many Native Americans.) At the same time, Native Americans living on tribal lands pay federal taxes and vote in national and state elections.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/diversity/_documents/native-american-heritage-month-info-sheet.pdf
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Elouise Cobell (born November 5, 1945) enrolled Blackfeet member who spearheaded a lawsuit alleging rampant federal mismanagement of Indian trust funds, is a heroine to many Native people.

The lawsuit she championed ended with a $3.4 billion settlement, providing money for an Indian education scholarship fund and a land trust program.

Cobell was a rancher who helped found Native American Bank.

In 2015, Gov. Steve Bullock issued a proclamation recognizing November 5 as Elouise Cobell Day.

University of Montana student Joseph Grady says Cobell, “Stood up for indigenous identity and Native American people.”

Grady is UM’s Student Diversity Coordinator. During the university’s Indigenous People’s Day celebration last month, Grady described Cobell as a woman, “certainly worth honoring.”

“Native American people and indigenous people across the lands, including the Hawaiian Islands and in Mexico, have literally given up everything so that this space around us can exist. It’s not always come voluntarily. Elouise Cobell made a little bit of headway in that conversation. She stands as a champion in that regard, where she fought for Native American people and won some reparations.”

In 2016 President Barack Obama awarded Cobell the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the nation’s highest civilian honor.

She died on October 16, 2011 due to complications from cancer.

https://www.mtpr.org/post/montana-honors-memory-blackfeet-activist-elouise-cobell
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Sarah Deer (born November 9, 1972) is a Native American lawyer, professor of law at William Mitchell College, and she is one of only ten Native women to be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in its 50-year history. In 2014 she was given the MacArthur “Genius Grant,” for her work to obtain justice for Native women who are victims of violence. A citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Deer advocates for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence in Native American communities.

Deer has accomplished much in her life, her book, The End and Beginning of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America won the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award. Deer spearheaded the 2007 Amnesty International report “Maze of Injustice” which reframed the problem of sexual violence in Indian Country as an international human rights issue.

Deer worked on “Maze of Injustice” over the course of about two years, all the while in treatment and recovery from breast cancer. “I just knew the story needed to be told,” she said. She was instrumental in the passage of two landmark pieces of federal legislation: the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 which increases the sentencing power of tribal courts and requires federal district attorneys to provide tribal courts with detailed information about cases under their jurisdiction that will not be prosecuted; and the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which restored some of the authority that had stripped tribal courts of the power to prosecute violent offenders assaulting women or partners on tribal lands in 1978.

Deer started out as a theater major at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, but she soon dropped the theater and took up philosophy at the University of Kansas. Since an undergrad, she was always interested in reproductive justice and women’s health rights. At 20, in Lawrence, Kansas, she was a rape crisis advocate supporting survivors reporting assault and violent crimes. She was on the receiving end of the telephone line fielding calls from Native women suffering from trauma. It was hearing the countless searing stories of Native women’s distress from physical abuse, sexual violence, and crisis—at the university, at Haskell, and at home on the reservation—that changed the trajectory of her life.

Deer then went on to law school at Kansas and sought to know the Native women that were involved in Native women’s rights and justice issues. She came across the efforts of Tillie Black Bear, Sicangu, who is considered the grandmother of the battered Native women’s rights movement.

In many cases, Deer says, victims just want acknowledgment of what happened to them. For herself and others working to aid victims, “We also want to make women strong again.” Deer acknowledges that the stories are devastating and can take a toll. Her next project is a book about strong Native women who are changing the world. She is going to focus on “high profile” and intelligent women who are inspirational. Deer herself falls into that category.

“We have two Native women in Congress now and that gives me hope. They’re championing issues and are leading the charge on what we hope to accomplish for Native women in Indian Country,” said Deer.

She has a message for young Native women and girls:
“Dream. Dream big. Don’t let your circumstances dictate your future. Find mentors. Connect, reach out. Find others to help guide you. Study chemistry, study STEM, study law, dance, whatever speaks to you,” she said. “I want more Native women to be in the Hall of Fame.”

https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/news/sarah-deer-inducted-into-the-national-women-s-hall-of-fame–1YnV7Rubka5lz3NmIYAhA/
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Wilma Mankiller (Born November 18, 1945) whose great-grandfather survived the deadly forced march of Native Americans Westward known as the “Trail of Tears,” rose to lead the Cherokee Nation more than 150 years later as principal chief – the first elected female chief of a Native nation in modern times. Throughout her reign from 1985-1995, cut short only by her own severe health challenges, she advocated for extensive community development, self-help, education and healthcare programs that revitalized the Nation of 300,000 citizens.
The sixth of 11 children, Mankiller, whose family name refers to a traditional Cherokee rank, was born in 1945 and raised on tribal lands in Tahlequah, Oklahoma in a home without electricity, indoor plumbing or telephones. Her father, Charley Mankiller was a full-blooded Cherokee, and her mother, Clara Irene Sitton, was of Dutch-Irish descent. In 1956, the family moved to San Francisco as part of a relocation policy to reclaim federally subsidized reservations in exchange for jobs in big cities. But jobs were sporadic and the family continued to struggle with finances, homesickness, and discrimination. “I experienced my own Trail of Tears,” Mankiller later wrote in her autobiography. “I wept tears that came from deep within the Cherokee part of me. They were tears from my history, from my tribe’s past. They were Cherokee tears”
In 1963, she married Hugo Olaya, an Ecuadorean businessman, and they had two daughters, Gina and Felicia. As a wave of political activism began sweeping the nation, Mankiller started visiting the Indian activists who for 19 months called attention to their plight by occupying the abandoned federal prison on Alcatraz Island in 1969. She began taking college courses at night while working as a coordinator of Indian programs for the Oakland public schools.
In 1977, after her marriage ended in divorce, Mankiller and her daughters returned to Oklahoma and her grandfather’s land in Mankiller Flats, where she eventually married her longtime friend, Charlie Lee Soap, a full-blood Cherokee traditionalist and fluent Cherokee speaker. Soon, she founded the Community Development Department for the Cherokee Nation, spurring projects that made dramatic improvements in community water systems and housing during the administration of Principal Chief Ross Swimmer. In 1983, Swimmer successfully ran for re-election with Mankiller as his running mate, making her the first woman ever elected deputy chief of the Cherokee Nation. And when Swimmer left office two years later to lead the US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Mankiller assumed the principal chief’s office. Despite opposition from the male-dominated Nation leadership at the time, she was elected in her own campaign in 1987, and re-elected again in 1991 in a landslide victory, collecting 83% of the vote. A string of health problems over the years that included lymphoma, a neuromuscular disorder, kidney failure and pancreatic cancer, dogged her throughout her career.
During her three terms, Mankiller tripled her tribe’s enrollment, doubled employment and built new housing, health centers and children’s programs in northeast Oklahoma. Under her leadership, infant mortality declined and educational achievement rose. In 1990, she signed an historic self-determination agreement in which the Bureau of Indian Affairs surrendered direct control over millions of dollars in federal funding to the tribe. Her leadership on social and financial issues made her tribe a national role model and she remained a strong voice worldwide for social justice, native people and women after she left office in 1995.
Mankiller, was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998, the highest honor given to civilians in the United States and was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1993. That same year, she published her autobiography, Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, and said she wanted to be remembered for emphasizing that Cherokee values can help solve contemporary problems. She also served as a guest professor at Dartmouth College. Wilm a passed away on April 6, 2010 of pancreatic cancer.
https://www.womenon20s.org/wilma-mankiller
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Unthanksgiving Day, also known as the Indigenous Peoples Sunrise Ceremony, is an annual event that takes place on Alcatraz Island on the fourth Thursday in November, coinciding with Thanksgiving.

It is designed to honor Native Americans and promote their rights. On November 20, 1969, a group of Native Americans, mostly college students, occupied the island of Alcatraz. They claimed the island according to the Treaty of Fort Laramie, also known as the Sioux Treaty of 1868.The occupation lasted for nineteen months.

During the occupation, many indigenous Americans joined the civil rights movement and spoke out for their rights. The occupation was forcefully ended by the United States government on June 11, 1971.

The first Unthanksgiving Day was held on November 27, 1975. It was established to commemorate the survival of the indigenous peoples of the Americas following European colonization.

The organizers chose the fourth Thursday of November with intent. While most people in the U.S. celebrate Thanksgiving, Native Americans want to remind about the losses Indians had to suffer because the arrival of Europeans.The ceremony is organized by the International Indian Treaty Council and American Indian Contemporary Arts. The celebration takes place before sunrise and is open to public. On the same day, an annual protest known as the National Day of Mourning is held in Massachusetts.

https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/unthanksgiving-day-national-day-of-mourning-2019/
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