Fifty Years of Black History

Before continuing with the Black History I must say something about the Red History of the America's. Our history goes back much farther in relationship to dealings with the Europeans. Not that our Black brothers and sisters do not deserve what they have obtained, they do. When does the Indigenous tribes of the America's get their justice. Many tribes in Central ans South America are still being annihilated at this very hour in the name of GREED. My dream is to see a new political party come to power. That party would be the Red Party (no reference to Communism) or Indigenous Party. It could be do if the tribes of this country would put away their differences and the ones that have learned the ways of European Greed to shelve it forever. Greed will be another subject I address later) It's time we all pull together or we loose completely. By. He Who Walks in Fire


By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Root

From the Civil Rights Movement to the election of President Barack Obama, Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Root's editor-in-chief, presents a timeline of the highlights of African-American history, and Bing offers you an enhanced view of these pivotal moments in American history.

The '60s

1960 -- February 1, 1960, four students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina, begin a sit-in at Woolworth's Drug Store.

1962 -- October 1, James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi, escorted by U.S. marshals by order of President John F. Kennedy.

1963 -- Sidney Poitier wins Best Actor for "Lilies of the Field." Check out his other films. August 28, The March on Washington becomes the largest civil rights demonstration in American history, a moment defined by Dr. King's historic "I Have a Dream" speech.

1965 -- February 21, Malcolm X is assassinated in Harlem by members of the Nation of Islam. Who was his wife?

1968 -- April 4, Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

The '70s

1972 -- November, Barbara Jordan of Houston and Andrew Young of Atlanta become the first blacks elected to Congress from the South since
1898.

1974 -- April 8, Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron hits his 715th home run, breaking Babe Ruth's longstanding record. Who broke his record? November 12, In the Bronx, Clive "Hercules" Campbell, aka "Kool Herc," starts using two turntables and chanting rhymes over the beat, forming the basis of rap.

1975 -- Arthur Ashe becomes the first African-American male to win the British Men's Singles championship at Wimbledon.

1977 -- February 3, The eighth and final episode of the mini-series "Roots," based on Alex Haley's novel, airs, receiving the highest ratings for a single program.

The '80s

1982 -- November 30, Michael Jackson releases "Thriller"; with sales of $110 million, it becomes the best-selling recording of all time.

1983 -- April 12, Harold Washington is elected Mayor of Chicago. Why was his tenure short? Alice Walker's "TheColor Purple" wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award.

1984 -- Jesse Jackson wins one-fourth of the votes cast in the Democratic primaries and caucuses, and one-eighth of the convention delegates in his first presidential bid.

1989 -- March, Frederick Drew Gregory becomes the first African-American to command a space shuttle, the Discovery.

The '90s

1990 -- February 11, Nelson Mandela is freed after 27 years in prison.

1991 -- March 3, Rodney King is brutally beaten in San Fernando Valley by L.A. police officers, sparking riots, an investigation, and subsequent trial.

1992 -- April 30, "The Cosby Show" broadcasts final episode of its eight season run.

1993 -- October 7, Toni Morrison becomes the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

1995 -- October 16, the Million Man March, under the leadership of Minister Louis Farrakhan, is held in Washington, D.C.

The First Decade of the 21st Century

2000 -- July, Venus Williams becomes the first black woman to win the Women's Singles title at Wimbledon since Althea Gibson in 1957 and 1958.

2002 -- March 24, Halle Berry becomes the first African-American female to win Academy Award for Best Actress; what movie did she win for?
Denzel Washington becomes the second African-American male to win Best Actor.

2005 -- January 26, Condoleezza Rice becomes the first black female secretary of state. What is she doing now? August 29, Hurricane Katrina hits Louisiana and southern Mississippi, devastating New Orleans.

2008 -- November 4, United States Senator Barack Hussein Obama becomes the 44th president of the United States. Where is he from? Now that's the $64,000 Question...


Night of the Red Sky Native American Metis Prophesy
The Prophetic Visions of 'Grandfather' from Tom Brown Jr.

http://www.wolflodge.org/visibiliti/prophecy/redsky.htm

The group mentioned in the badge below is dedicated to news that is important to all Americans. The Indigenous peoples should also pay strict attention to the Islamic Jihadist threat in this country. If we think that we have no battle with them, you might think again. We do not believe in Ala or the sacred Koran, therefore we are also marked as infidels. The price for being an infidel is death.

I can not support Russel Means and the Lakota nation or any other tribe in declaring themselves a free nation at this time. It is a time for everyone to unite in a common cause. If America is destroyed by the Jihadists then we all loose.
What is left of our Sacred Sites, our Elders, Women, Children and the Warriors will be no more. Please think of what I have said. All tribal nations must unite as one and become allies of the rest of America for the good of our country.

Tony, (He Who Walks In Fire) Ihañktoñwañna Dakota

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Sept 14, 2009 Animals and the Indian got along just fine and lived as nature intended before the white man came and ruined the balance of nature. My answer to the newly opened wolf hunt in Montana and Idaho. The story can be found at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32757255/ns/us_news-environment/ You can also vote whether to hunt or not hunt wolves.

EAGLE FEATHERS

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Janet Littlecrow wrote:
I just received this email about the feather busts up in Oregon (an OK Kiowa guy) and Washington. Apparently the Kiowa guy from OK that they caught in Oregon is singing. I know White Eagle PD was taken over by BIA police, but that was several weeks ago. Anyway, I'm forwarding the email. Subject: Feather Busts
This is just a heads up as to potential problems with migratory bird feathers. I have had two e mails today, dealing with illegal migratory feather black market activity. First one - several Indians in Oregon were busted for shooting/killing bald and golden eagles, and selling them to powwow people. The second one was from Florida, where several white boys were caught shooting 15 species of migratory bird feathers - they seemed to have no connection to Native American culture and activities. As a result of the Oregon activity, one of those caught, a Kiowa boy, whom I have personally met, has been "singing" his heart out to the feds. And as a result, I am told, there were busts at White Eagle today, and also up at Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas. In regards to all of this, the BIA has taken over control of the Ponca Indian Police Department, and has started to arrest people with outstanding warrents for anything and everything. They might start showing up at dances to enforce feather laws. With the April Hethushka coming up, you might wish to alert any of your members planning to attend our Spring dance, to be careful with feathers. Just a warning. As I was finishing up this e mail, just had another phone call telling me that Patrick Scott, Navajo fan maker was busted too. Looks like a major sting operation.

This is an email from Willow Jack that made the rounds yesterday.
Hello everyone,
I have been following this since some friends of mine were raided last week. It has been part of an ongoing investigation for two years and anyone, ANYONE who does feather work is being targeted. Other targets are those who trade or give feathers to any of these feather-workers. From what I have noticed, the main targets have been N.A.C. peeps. Now the Eagle Act says bartering of feathers is illegal, so NO-ONE TRADE any feathers. The FEDS are really watching. Don't even openly give away any feathers.
I think those who have been involved need to contact the Native American Rights Fund. This is a form of "policing" how we handle our own sacred items. Now, I am not overlooking the fact that there were some feathers poached by individuals but many of the people targeted don't even kill eagles, they trade.
Whoever 's feathers were with them people caught at the time, HAVE LOST their feathers!!!
Now if the FEDS want us to be required to carry documents, what is happening to our religious freedom and our sovereignty? What is next, peyote? More loss of sacred sites and sacred practices? I really think we should pay mind to things like this because, as one friend said "YOU WOULD NEVER SEE THEM CONFISCATING CROSSES OUT OF A CHURCH".
So if you know of anyone involved, take a stand and perhaps file a class action lawsuit or gather leaders to advocate for their people. We cannot act like this is nothing because the decisions made by the FEDS affect each and every one of us.
THANK god I have papers for my feathers and fans, they all came from the National Eagle Repository, But what about our old old feathers? I know my fam carries a warbonnet from a battle in 1867. How do we protect feathers given to us by our elders or feathers we have gotten from family members who have passed? We don't bury those things, they are sacred and must live on to carry them prayers out.
Anyway, sorry for the rant but so far the case has been building for two years, the FEDS have pics of powwow peeps and N.A.C. peeps. They have someone on their side who knows people and they are keeping tabs through snowballing.
They even have pics of peeps at Denver March last year!
IF YOU KNOW of anyone who has been raided, make sure they take names of officers, ask for a list of items taken and be as careful as they can. I suggest a class action law suit and I suggest action be taken by our tribal leaders. Do not allow the FEDS to tell us how to be, we know how to be and do not need more paternalism than we have as Indigenous people.
Aho,
Willow Jack
Original news story - read the whole story on the link
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1236934512263350.xml&coll=7
Friday, March 13, 2009
BRYAN DENSON
The Oregonian Staff
Federal authorities have charged one man in Oregon and three in Washington in killing birds of prey -- including America's most enduring symbol, the bald eagle -- to feed the black market for raptor feathers.
In July 2007, an undercover agent assigned to the Fish and Wildlife Service, attended the Julyamsh Powwow in Post Falls, Idaho, where he found a man hawking fans of bird feathers. The agent paid the man $450 for three fans.
According to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Portland, the man gave his name, J. J. Lonelodge, and gave the agent a cell phone number.
"I can hook you up with anything you want," the man said. Court documents now identify the man, a tribally enrolled Kiowa, as Reginald Dale Akeen, of Anadarko, Okla.
Federal agents, still undercover, made a series of phone calls to Akeen to buy feathers of golden eagles and other birds. The National Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Ashland confirmed that the feathers purchased from Akeen belonged to golden eagles, anhinga, and a Cooper's hawk.
In September 2007, according to federal authorities, Akeen brokered the sale of a "black and white" fan on the Warm Springs Reservation.

American Indian activist Robideau dies at 61
The Associated Press - Thursday, February 19, 2009
http://www.grandforksherald.com/ap/index.cfm?page=view&id=D96EP0E85
PORTLAND, Ore.

Robert Robideau, an American Indian activist who was acquitted of killing two FBI agents in a 1975 shootout in South Dakota, has died. He was 61.

Robideau had been living in Barcelona, Spain, where authorities said that his death Tuesday may have been related to seizures caused by shrapnel left in his head from an accidental explosion.

Robideau, a Portland native, was the cousin of Leonard Peltier and a member of the American Indian Movement who had occupied the reservation town of Wounded Knee, S.D., for 71 days in 1973, two years before the shootout.

His son, Michael, told The Oregonian that Robideau attended Roosevelt High School and received a degree in cultural anthropology from Portland State University.

The newspaper said that Robideau left for South Dakota in the early 1970s with several family members, including Peltier, to join AIM and its protests against poverty and corruption on tribal reservations.

In June 1975, two FBI agents followed a man wanted in the theft of a pair of cowboy boots onto the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The agents soon came under heavy rifle fire and were killed.

The FBI identified Peltier as a suspect in the shooting and placed him on its most wanted list.

Months later, Robideau was driving Peltier's station wagon through Kansas with other AIM members when ammunition in the car accidentally exploded.

Robideau, who was seriously injured, was arrested and tried for the FBI agent killings, but was acquitted.

Peltier was arrested by Oregon State Police troopers while driving through Oregon and later convicted of the FBI shootings. He is serving two life sentences.

Robideau appeared in "Incident at Oglala," the 1992 documentary about the Pine Ridge shootings narrated by actor Robert Redford and directed by Michael Apted.

Robideau later became a painter, concentrating on tribal themes. He led a committee seeking a pardon for Peltier and served as director of the American Indian Movement Museum in Barcelona, which displayed some of his paintings.

He is survived by his wife, Pilar of Barcelona, Spain; and sons, Michael of Portland and Bobby of South Dakota.
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Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com

"They made us many promises, more than I can remember. But they kept but one...They promised to take our land...and they took it".....Red Cloud