Native American Heritage Month - PowerPoint Presentation

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Native American Heritage Month

NovemberCelebrates

Presented by the

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The existence of indigenous Native Americans predates colonialization

. The usual theory of the settlement of the Americas is that the earliest peoples of the Americas came from Asia over a land bridge which connected the two continents across what is now the Bering Strait during a period of glaciation, when the sea water level was lower. The number and nature of these migrations is uncertain, but the land bridge is believed to have existed only until about 12,000 years ago, when it was flooded out. Currently, there are 562 federally recognized Native American tribes, bands, nations, pueblos, rancherias

, communities and Native villages in the United States. Approximately 229 of these are located in Alaska; the rest are located in 33 other states. These tribes are ethnically, culturally and linguistically diverse.It is through this rich diversity of traditions and cultures that continues to shape the United States of America. With that being said, please enjoy this month’s presentation that

highlights Native American Heritage Month.Slide3

Uncas

Uncas (c. 1588—c. 1683) was a sachem

(high level chief) of the Mohegans who made the Mohegans the leading regional Indian tribe in lower Connecticut, through his alliance with the English colonists in New England against other Indian tribes.

Uncasville and Uncas Lake in

Nahantic State Forest, Lyme, CT are named after him. President Jackson laid the foundation stone of a monument to Uncas in Norwich, Connecticut. Also, four United States Navy ships have been named USS Uncas.

Chief Uncas

was born near the Thames River in present-day Connecticut, the son of the Mohegan sachem

Owaneco

.

Uncas is a variant of the Mohegan term Wonkus, meaning "Fox". He was a descendant of the principal sachems of the Mohegans, Pequots, and Narragansetts. Uncas was bilingual, learning Mohegan and some English, and possibly some Dutch.Slide4

Polly Cooper

Polly Cooper (no date of birth or death given) was an Oneida woman from the New York colony who took part in an expedition in 1777 to aid the Continental army during the American Revolution. Troops were camped at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in winter quarters during 1777–78. She and other Oneida carried white corn to them

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Ms. Cooper stayed with the troops for a period to teach them how to prepare the white corn, which needed a different cooking technique for digestion. In addition, she aided with herbal supplements and medical care. In 2005, she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Oneida County Historical

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John

HorseJohn Horse (c. 1812– c. 1882),

also known as Juan Caballo, and Gopher John, was of mixed ancestry (African and Seminole Indian) who fought alongside the Seminoles in the Second Seminole War in Florida. He rose to prominence in the third year of what was to become a seven-year

war.

When the Africans living among the Seminole continued to face threats of re-enslavement in their new home, thanks to the connivance of some American officials, Mr. Horse would join forces along with an

old comrade,

to

lead a group of disaffected

Seminoles and former slaves across the Rio Grande to northern Mexico

where they were granted land by the Mexican government in 1850 and where they could finally be assured of their freedom as Mexico abolished legal slavery in the 1820’s.

Mr. Horse

, who was the son of a slave mother and an Indian

father,

was

nominally a slave under both American and Seminole law until finally being freed by the American military for his service to the army in Florida after his return there at the military's request. Slide6

Maria Montoya Martinez

Maria Montoya Martinez (c. 1887 – July 20, 1980)

was a Native American artist who created internationally known pottery. Ms. Martinez (born Maria Antonia Montoya), her husband Julian, and other family members examined traditional Pueblo pottery styles and techniques to create pieces which reflect the Pueblo people’s legacy of fine artwork and crafts.

Ms. Martinez

was from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, a community located 20 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico. At an early age, she learned pottery skills from her aunt. During this time, Spanish tinware

and Anglo enamelware had become readily available in the Southwest, making the creation of traditional cooking and serving pots less

necessary.

Traditional pottery making techniques were being lost, but

Ms. Martinez and her family experimented with different techniques and helped preserve the cultural art.Slide7

Ely Samuel Parker

Ely Samuel Parker (1828 – August 31, 1895), (born Hasanoanda, later known as Donehogawa) was a Seneca attorney, engineer, and tribal diplomat. He was commissioned a lieutenant colonel during the American Civil War, when he served as adjutant to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S.

Grant.

He wrote the final draft of the Confederate surrender terms at

Appomattox*. Later in his career, he rose to the rank of brevet brigadier general. President Grant appointed Mr. Parker as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the first Native American to hold that post.

*The

Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. The signing of the surrender documents occurred in the parlor of the

house.

On April 12, 1865, a

formal ceremony marked the disbandment of the Army of Northern Virginia and the parole of its officers and men, effectively ending the war in Virginia. This event triggered a series of surrenders across the South, signaling the end of the Civil War.Slide8

Suzanne

LaFlesche Picotte

Suzanne LaFlesche Picotte (June 17, 1865 – September 18, 1915) was an Omaha Indian doctor and reformer in the late 19th century. She is widely acknowledged as the first Native American physician. She campaigned for public health and for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of the Omaha tribe

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Ms. Picotte also campaigned against tuberculosis, as part of a public health campaign on the reservation. She also worked to help other Omaha navigate the bureaucracy of the Office of Indian Affairs and receive the money owed to them for the sale of their land.

Ms.

Picotte

worked

to discourage drinking on the reservation where she worked as the physician, as part of the temperance movement of the

19th century. Slide9

Charles Curtis

Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was an American attorney and politician, elected as the 31st

Vice President of the United States (1929–33) with President Herbert Hoover.After serving as a United States Representative and being repeatedly re-elected as United States Senator from Kansas, Mr. Curtis was chosen as Senate Majority Leader

by his Republican colleagues.

Born in Kansas Territory to a mother of the Kaw Nation, Mr. Curtis was the first person with significant Native American ancestry and the first person with acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach either of the highest offices in the United States government's executive branch. He is notable also as an Executive Branch officer born in a territory rather than a state.Slide10

Diane

HumetewaDiane Joyce Humetewa

(December 5, 1964) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona and was the United States Attorney for the District of Arizona, serving in that position from December 2007 to August 2009. Confirmed in 2014 as the first Native American woman and enrolled tribal member to serve as a federal judge, she is one of three Native Americans in history to serve in this position.

She is

also a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. Ms. Humetewa has served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and to the Deputy Attorney General for the U.S. Justice Department

as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Guideline Commission, Native American Advisory Committee, and as an Appellate Court Judge for the Hopi Tribe, of which she is an enrolled

member.Slide11

Rodney Curl

Rodney Curl (January 9, 1943) is an American professional golfer best known for being the first full-blooded Native American to win a PGA Tour event

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Mr. Curl

was born in Redding, California. He is a Wintu Indian. Before taking up golf at age 19, he was an outstanding baseball player at Central Valley High School in Shasta County, California

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Mr. Curl

joined the PGA Tour in 1969 and played regularly through 1978. He had 42 top-10 finishes in official PGA Tour events including one win and a half-dozen second and third-place finishes. He beat Jack Nicklaus to win the 1974 Colonial National Invitation by one stroke after Nicklaus made a bogey on the 17th hole

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Randy'L

He-dow TetonRandy'L

He-dow Teton (no date of birth given) is a Shoshone-Bannock/Cree from the Lincoln Creek district of the Fort Hall Reservation in Southeastern Idaho. In 1998, the United States Mint invited sculptor Glenna Goodacre to submit a design for the new dollar coin featuring Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman who acted as guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Ms. Goodacre

went to the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico to find a Shoshone woman to model Sacagawea, since no contemporary portraits exist. Ms. Goodacre chose Ms. Teton, the daughter of a museum employee, to be the face of Sacagawea.

Ms. Teton

toured the country extensively to promote the new dollar coin's introduction and as a motivational speaker to encourage Native American education.

She

has stated that, "the image doesn't represent me, it represents all Native American women. All women have the dignity of the Golden Dollar's image

."Slide13

Byron I.

MallottByron I. Mallott (April

6, 1943) is an American politician and business executive from the state of Alaska. Mr. Mallott is an Alaska Native leader of Tlingit heritage. He is the 12th and current Lieutenant Governor of Alaska and previously served as the Mayor of Yakutat, the Mayor of Juneau, the President of the Alaska Federation of Natives and the executive director of the Alaska Permanent Fund.

His political career began unexpectedly in 1965. His father, who served as Yakutat's mayor for the vast majority of the position's existence (Yakutat incorporated as a city in 1948

), died. He left college and returned to Yakutat, running to replace him, and won election. He was 22 years old at the time.Slide14

History is being written everyday

Thank you for celebrating

Native American Heritage Month

DMV Affirmative Action Unit

Note: All information in this presentation was obtained from wikipedia.org