GENERAL LISTS
Artists
Biographies
Images
Famous Native American Chiefs, Leaders, & Warriors
SPECIFIC PEOPLE (Native)
10 Native Americans You Should Know
CONTEMPORARY PEOPLE
Buffy Sainte Marie
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Winona
LaDuke founded the Indigenous Women's Network in 1985.
In 1996 and 2000, she ran as the vice-presidential candidate with Ralph Nader
on the Green Party ticket.
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John
Trudell is an American author, poet, actor, musician,
and political activist whose wife and 3 children died in a suspicious fire.
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Russell
Means is the Oglala Lakota
activist who helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee and later became a
Hollywood actor. He passed away in 2012. Video interviews about the sacred feminine http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2014/10/russell-means-final-interview-sacred.html
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Sacheen
Littlefeather rejected the Best Actor award, on behalf of Marlon
Brando, for his role in "The Godfather.”
Leonard Peltier has been in a
political prisoner (like Nelson Mandela) since 1977 for a crime he did not
commit.
EXAMPLES OF BEING AN ALLY, ACTIVIST, & ROLE MODEL
Local theater production of The Rememberer
20th Anniversary of MCNAA
Christian Privilege
Why I Don't Just Call the School on Holidays
Letters I Receive
SPECIFIC PEOPLE (Non Native)
Bartolomé de Las Casas wrote about atrocities committed by Columbus.
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Marlon
Brando refused Academy Award
for Godfather due to media depiction of Native people.
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Muhammad
Ali participated in “Longest
Walk” of AIM (American Indian Movement).
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Ted
Kennedy was a leader on issues
of Native Education. He helped pass
Indian Education Act & Tribal College Act.
COMPILED & REVIEWED BY CLAUDIA A. FOX TREE, M.Ed (Arawak). Here are resources I recommend in courses I teach about Native Americans - like book lists, websites, video clips, music/songs, curriculum ideas, and other thoughts thrown in for explanation… Mostly, this blog is a place to present truths and perspectives about the Indigenous People of the Western Hemisphere (with particular focus on the Caribbean) not easily found in other places.
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