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Dec.
27, 1763:
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Angry
white vigilantes, called "the Paxton Boys" will
break into a building housing the 14 CONESTOGA, Pennsylvania
Indians not killed in the attack on December 14th. The whites
will kill all of the Indians, including women and children,
while they prayed. Benjamin Franklin will write the broadside
"Narrative of the late massacres in lancaster county"
condemning the white attackers for brutalizing the innocent
CONESTOGAs.
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Dec.
28, 1791:
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Today,
CHEROKEE Chief Bloody Fellow, and others, arrive in Philadelphia
to meet with President Washington. The meeting will be delayed
by Secretary of War Knox until the CHEROKEEs have been outfitted
in "more proper" clothing. The eventual meeting
would lead to an addenda to the Holston Treaty which will
be signed on February 17,1792.
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Dec.
29, 1830:
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Nine
local missionaries, issue a proclamation defending the CHEROKEEs
against the actions of Georgia. Georgia is trying to remove
the CHEROKEE from their lands, in New Echota, today. Eventually.
Georgia will pass a law sentencing anyone living in CHEROKEE
territory to 4 years of hard labor, if they have not sworn
allegiance to Georgia.
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Men-son-se-ah,
a Piankashaw man holding a hatchet with a ground-stone head.
(watercolor by George Catlin, 1830)
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Dec.
30, 1805:
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The
PIANKESHAW sign a treaty today (Wabash).
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Dec.
31, 1794:
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After agreeing to a peace with the United States on November
7th, today the CHEROKEE and CHICKAMAUGA Indians, and the U.S.
will exchange prisoners, this will effectively end the CHICKAMAUGA
War.
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Jan.
1, 1852:
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Today,
one in a series of treaties with California Indians will be
signed in Santa Isabel. The treaty is meant to reserve lands
for the Indians and to protect them from Europeans.
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Many
PUEBLOs do the Turtle Dance today.
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The
MAKAH Reservation
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Jan.
2, 1873:
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The
MAKAH Reservation undergoes changes today by Executive Order.
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Jan.
3, 1786:
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Signed
by Benjamin Hawkins. The CHOCTAW agree to release all prisoners.
They acknowledge the sovereignty of the United States, and
no others. New boundaries for their lands are delineated.
No U.S. citizens will be allowed to settle on CHOCTAW lands,
without CHOCTAW permission. Only U.S.is allowed to regulate
trade with the CHOCTAW. Signatories: 5 Great Medal Chiefs,
13 small Medal Chiefs, 12 Medal and Gorget Captains. Signed
at Hopewell River.
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Jan.
4, 1883:
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President
Chester Arthur, by Executive Order, establishes the HUALPAI
reservation in WALAPAI Agency. Size: 1,142 square miles in
Arizona Territory. Bounded by: Colorado River, 5 miles east
of Tinnakah Spring, south 20 miles to summit of the high mesa,
40 degrees east for 25 miles to Music Mountains, east 15 miles,
north 50 degrees east for 35 miles, north 30 miles to Colorado
River.
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The
Indian Rock/Native Garden Project is an on-going collaboration
between advanced computer art and anthropology students at
CSUSM and the San Luis Rey Band of Luiseño Indians
in Vista, California. Together we are developing a native
restoration garden situated on an ancient Luiseño ceremonial
rock site located near the university. photo by David Fleischman
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Jan.
5, 1852:
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One
in a series of treaties with California Indians is signed
today at Temecula. The treaty is to set aside land and to
protect the San Luis Rey Indians from Europeans.
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Jan.
6, 1864:
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To
force the NAVAJOs to move to the Bosque Redondo Encampment,
the Army gets Kit Carson to mount an expedition against the
NAVAJOs in the Canyon de Chelly. Captain Albert Pfeiffer,
and a small force, leaves Fort Canby on this date to meet
Carson at the canyon. Carson is called "rope thrower"
by the Indians.
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6, 1954 |
Canku
Ota's editor, Vicki Lockard is born on this day. Happy Birthday
Vicki.
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Jan.
7, 1806:
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Black
Fox (Inali) is the Principal Chief of the CHEROKEEs and a
signatory to the treaty. He will receive $100 a year, as a
part of the treaty. The CHEROKEEs will cede almost 7,000 square
miles, in Tennessee and Alabama under this agreement. The
treaty will be repudiated by most CHEROKEEs. Lands given away
will include the Great Island of the Holston River.
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Jan.
8, 1815:
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Today,
General Andrew Jackson will fight the British in the battle
of New Orleans. Among Jackson's Army are many CHOCTAW warriors.
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Jan.
9, 1789:
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A
treaty signed today refers back to the treaty signed on October
22, 1784. redefines tribal land boundary lines. Lands will
be ceded on both sides. The MOHAWKs do not attend, nor sign
the treaty. The treaty is signed by 24 Indians.
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