Tenskwatawa was born some time in January of 1775 into a Shawnee family. He is also known as The Prophet and is famous as Tecumseh's brother. In 1804, he had a near death experience and a vision whic…

After 12 years of the Haitian revolution, Jean-Jacques Dessalines declares Haiti a free republic. Haiti was the first independent nation in Latin America, the first post-colonial independent Black-le…

Mary Dann (1923–2005), of the Dann sisters, was a Western Shoshone rancher and land protector who, along with her sister, Carrie Dann, challenged the federal government over the ill-use of their trib…

As a result of the Mau movement for Samoan independence, Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand. Samoa had a complex colonial history, with New Zealand only being the latest unwelcome colo…

During the termination period, the Menominee Tribe was selected for forced assimilation and their federally recognized status was revoked in 1961. Although, Nixon reversed this ruling in 1973, the ha…

From WCH: As the North American Free Trade Agreement was due to come into effect, around 1000 members of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) occupied the towns of Altamirano, Las Margaritas…

350 Viet Cong guerrillas held their position against 1,400 US Army and allied South Vietnamese troops who had 13 APCs, 15 helicopters, and 13 war planes. Five American helicopters were lost along wit…

Although beginning as a labor dispute with a strike demanding better working conditions and higher wages at a Portuguese-Belgian cotton plantation company, it erupted into a wider revolt. It's consid…

CLR James, anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado, was born in Trinidad.

WCH: On 4 January 1938, 4-500 workers at the Serge Island estate in St Thomas, Jamaica, forced a general work stoppage on the farm. They were demanding pay increases before they would start reaping c…

US Supreme Court decision which held that the US Congress can pass legislation that changes the terms of tribal treaties without the consent of the tribes with whom the treaties were made. The case w…

WCH: On 5 January 1945, Korean anti-colonial fighter, Min Yeong-hak, died by suicide after being wounded by Japanese soldiers in Indonesia.
Min was serving in the Japanese army during World War II, g…

Led by Joseph Parata Hohepa Hawke, the occupation of Takaparawhau began on this day in 1977. The whenua - a piece of land overlooking Auckland's Waitematā Harbour - originally belonged to Ngāti Whātu…

Rumor of a Native uprising against the miners along the Klamath River by the Yurok and Karuk tribes led to local settlers demanding Native peoples be disarmed. At this meeting they demanded anyone tr…

The Battle of Catirai was a battle that took place on January 7, 1569, in the Catirai region in Chile during the Arauco War. The battle was fought between Mapuche forces led by the chieftains Llangan…

On this day in 1865, about five weeks after the Sand Creek Massacre, 1,000 Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Lakota Indians attacked about 60 soldiers of the U.S. army and 40 to 50 civilians. Indigenous forces …

Dacajeweiah (Splitting the Sky) was a Mohawk/Cree warrior, speaker and writer involved in the 1971 Attica Prison revolt in upstate New York and the 1995 Gustafsen Lake stand-off in Secwepemc territor…

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On 7 January 2019, a group of Indigenous land defenders was attacked by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), who had been instructed to use violence and were prepared to use deadly force. T…

In the Territory of Louisiana, between January 8th and 10th, 1811, hundreds of slaves revolted and killed plantation owners as they marched to New Orleans. Hundreds of soldiers were called up to put …

The organisation was initially founded as the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) on 8 January 1912 in Bloemfontein, with the aim of fighting for the rights of black South Africans. BlackP…

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On 8 January 1932, Korean independence activist Lee Bong-chang threw hand grenades at the car of the Japanese emperor as he returned from a military review in Tokyo. Lee was born in Seoul in 190…

After disrespecting the tribes wishes, the five evangelical Christians were killed with spears. Today there remain uncontacted peoples in eastern Ecuador who Survival International and other groups a…

The Fort Robinson breakout was an escape from an American Army barracks by Cheyenne people who were being tortured there. Two years earlier the Cheyenne had been forcibly relocated to Darlington Agen…

From WCH: Trinidadian leader of the British Black Panther Party.

Spanish forces, including Native auxiliaries, crossing the Bueno River on a pontoon bridge are defeated by Mapuche warriors. The victory inspires the Mapuche uprising of the following year.

The British took over the colonization of Zulu territory from the Boers in 1843, with an eye for securing the diamond mines and other resources. They made an ultimatum in December of 1878 that King C…

The initial attacks in the revolt began on this day in 1904 and were successful, involving the killings of 123 persons, mostly German landowners. Samuel Maharero was a leader in the uprising, famousl…

Abe Okpik was an Inuk community leader and advocate for the Inuktitut language. He is best remembered for his work on Project Surname, in which he sought to replace the identification numbers assigne…

From WCH:
On 12 January 1932, thousands of local fisherwomen on Korea’s Jeju Island, known as haenyeo, marched towards Sehwa Five-day Market, wielding hoes and abalone knives, in what became known as…

A telegram to the Indian Branch of the Department of Mines and Resources reports that the Thunderchild Residential School in Saskatchewan has burned down over the night of January 13-14, 1948.
No chi…

This was the first of two battles along the Loxahatchee River (from the Seminole name meaning Turtle River) which were victories for Seminole forces during the Second Seminole War. Forces led by Abia…

John Chilembwe was a Baptist pastor, educator and revolutionary from Nyasaland (now Malawi) who trained as a minister in the United States, returning to Nyasaland in 1901. He was an early figure in t…

On this day in 1873, the second battle of the Modoc Wars was fought at Kintpuash (Captain Jack's) stronghold. Kintpuash had led 52 warriors in a band of more than 150 Modoc people away from the Klama…

The Hawaiian Kingdom on this day in 1893 was overthrown in a coup d'état against Queen Liliʻuokalani on Oahu. The insurgents established the Republic of Hawai'i and eventually achieved their goal of …

Tina Manning was a Paiute-Shoshone water rights activist and wife of John Trudell. She worked and lived at Duck Valley Reservation in Nevada, where her father had served as tribal chairman. Manning d…

From WCH:
On 18 January 1958, the Battle of Hayes Pond took place near Maxton, North Carolina, when Native Americans routed a rally of the Ku Klux Klan.The KKK considered the local Lumbee tribe as a …

Born on this day in 1897, Tubal Uriah Butler was a Grenadadian born Spiritual Baptist preacher and labour leader in Trinidad and Tobago. He moved to Trinidad and Tobago in 1921 to work in the oilfiel…

Following a battle just four days earlier where American forces had won, British forces allied with ~800 Indigenous forces launched a counter attack on Americans at Frenchtown, on the River Raisin. T…

From WCH: On 22 January 1826, members of the Acjachemen Nation, who were field hands at the San Juan Capistrano mission, California, refused to work, engaging in what may have been the first farm wor…

After Lord Carnarvon was successful in the Confederation of Canada through the 1867 British North America Act, British colonial authorities in South Africa wanted to attempt a similar approach and be…

The Battle of Seattle was part of the Puget Sound War, an armed conflict over land rights, started because of the poor terms of the Medicine Creek Treaty. Five days before the attack on Seattle, Gove…

From WCH: On 26 January 1938, Aboriginal Australians rallied in Sydney on the 150th anniversary of the landing of the British First Fleet at Sydney Cove, in protest at ongoing discrimination against …

From Wikipedia: Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, author and social theorist. She is Distinguished Professor E…

From the Zinn Education Project: On Jan. 27, 1847, several hundred citizens of Marshall, Michigan, helped Adam and Sarah Crosswhite escape from being kidnapped.

The Crosswhites had escaped from slav…

Harold Cardinal was an influential Cree writer and political organizer who, along with the Indian Chiefs of Alberta, opposed the Canadian government's assimilationist White Paper with the Red Paper (…

Earlier in the winter of 1973, Sid Mills (Yakama and Cherokee) and four other fishermen were arrested for fishing, with their gear confiscated and not returned. In another incident with the game ward…

On this day in 1969, students occupied the computer center at Sir George Williams University in Montreal. The occupation followed 8 months of waiting for a response from the university concerning the…

In the aftermath of the Bannock War, US President Rutherford B. Hayes ordered the forced relocation of the Wadatika Band of Northern Paiutes by military escort >300 miles north to the Yakama Reservat…

Aŋpétu Wašté Wiŋ was born on this day in 1889 on the South Dakota Yankton Indian Reservation, and raised on Pine Ridge. She was an ethnographer, linguist, and writer known for her important work reco…

The Cummeragunja Walk Off was a protest by Aboriginal people at Cummeragunja Station. On 4 February 1939 about 200 Yorta Yorta people walked off Cummeragunja Station in southern NSW. They were protes…

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On 4 February 2021, Inuit land defenders blockaded the Mary River mine on North Baffin Island, Canada. A group calling themselves the Nuluujaat Land Guardians initiate the action in protest agai…

TPP is the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal which had been signed in Auckland just before, which had been widely criticised by Māori as undermining the self-determination that should be guarantee…

Dandara was a female warrior who helped defend Palmares, a maroon community (quilombo) in northeastern Brazil in the late 1600's. Palmares is generally regarded as the largest and longest-lived fugit…

A wave of unrest across Palestine begins when demonstrators from the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank, protesting the siege of the Palestinian Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon by the Amal Movement…

On February 9, 2021, members of Birch Narrows First Nation issued a cease and desist order to James Sykes, CEO of Baselode Energy Corporation, a Toronto-based uranium company who had been conducting …

ᏍᏏᏉᏯ or Sequoyah was a Cherokee polymath born around 1770 who developed the Cherokee syllabary. Cherokee Nation officially adopted the syllabary in 1825 and by 1830 had a ~90% literacy rate, surpassi…

Treaties with Tribes in Washington State explicitly reserved the right for Native peoples to fish 'at usual and accustomed' places in the 1850's. This wording is included in
Treaty of Point No Point…

From WCH:
On 12 February 1978, in New Zealand/Aotearoa 250 Māori Tainui Awhiro people and allies occupied the Raglan golf course, preventing games being played. The course had been built on the site …

From Wikipedia: The Mapuche uprising of 1655 (Spanish: alzamiento mapuche de 1655 or levantamiento mapuche de 1655) was a series of coordinated Mapuche attacks against Spanish settlements and forts i…

On this day in 1779, James Cook was killed by Kanakas as he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, an aliʻi nui of the island of Hawaii. James Cook was the first known European to visit the Hawaiian Islan…

On February 14, 1992, the annual Women's Memorial March honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit, plus, persons (MMIWG2S+), is first held in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, i…

WCH- On 15 February 2004, rioting broke out in the Sydney suburb of Redfern, Australia, following the death of Thomas "TJ" Hickey, a 17 year old Aboriginal Australian, the previous day. Hickey's fami…

Best known as a leader of the 1995 Gustafsen Lake standoff, Wolverine was a Secwepemc Elder, logger, trapper, fisherman and farmer. He spent five years in jail for his role in the sovereignty struggl…

In the midst of the US Civil War, the Chiracahua War in the American Southwest was also ongoing. Apache forces led by Cochise attacked two surveyors trespassing on Apache land and pursued them on hor…

The Chumash revolt of 1824 was an uprising of the Chumash against the Spanish and Mexican presence in their ancestral lands. The rebellion began in three of the California Missions in Alta California…

A treaty between the United States and Spain in which Spain ceded Florida to the US and defined the border between New Spain (Mexico) and the US. The US at the time was very concerned with crushing S…

Mary Panigusiq was born on this day in 1938 at Saattut on Baffin Island. She was a nurse, a teacher, a journalist, an ambassador for the North and an Inuit rights activist. As a young woman she worke…

Students in Port-of-Spain Trinidad take to the streets in support of Black students (including Trinidadians) in Montreal, Canada facing trial for the occupation of Sir George Williams University over…

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On 26 February 2023, Cofán Indigenous land defender Eduardo Mendúa was assassinated in the garden of his home in Dureno, Ecuador. He was shot 12 times by two hooded, armed men. His murder is sus…

Recognizing the need to preserve ʻōlelo Hawai'i, Larry "Kauanoe" Lindsey Kimura started an all Hawaiian language radio program on KCCN. His first guest was John Kameaaloha Almeida, an old-time and w…

Oglala Lakota and AIM supporters seized and occupied town of Wounded Knee on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Action led to a 71 day standoff.

[The Marshall Triology] First official introduction of the Doctrine of Discovery into United States municipal law by the US Supreme Court Justice John Marshall. Rules that Native people can only conv…

In February 1835 the Mexican Captain Blas de Hinojos left Santa Fe and headed west into Diné country with a force of almost 1,000 Mexican troops on a slaving expedition. The Diné headman Narbona had …

On this day in 1896 the battle of Adwa was started by Italian colonial force led by Oreste Baratieri against Ethiopian Empire under Emperor Menelik II. Following a dispute over the interpretation of …

On March 1, 1954, four Puerto Rican nationalists, seeking to promote Puerto Rican independence from the United States, attacked the United States Capitol. The nationalists, identified as Lolita Lebró…

[Marshall Triology] US Supreme Court ruling that the State of Georgia did not have rights to enforce its laws on 'Indian land'. States that the federal government was the sole authority to deal with…

hinmatóowyalahtq̓it led his Wallowa band of Nez Perce during the most tumultuous period in their history, when they were forcibly removed by the United States federal government from their ancestral l…

Making official the policy of no new treaties which had been in place since 1868, Congress passes this act officially ending the Treaty era, signed into law by President Grant. The Act states "No Ind…

Elijah Harper, Oji-Cree politician, consultant, policy analyst and residential school survivor was born on this day in 1949 at Red Sucker Lake, MB. Elijah Harper is best known for the role he played …

William Buffalo Tiger was a Miccosukee leader from the Everglades area of Florida and advocate for self-determination for the Miccosukee people. His efforts to secure federal recognition for his peop…

Although slavery was illegal in the area now known as Utah while it was a part of Mexico, a slave trade in Indigenous peoples existed and the Mormon settlers took part and encouraged it. In fact, whe…

Suffering a shortage of food, the renegade chief Iŋkpáduta (Scarlet Point) led 14 Wahpekute against the settlements near Okoboji and Spirit lakes in the northwestern territory of Iowa near the Minnes…

Occupation led to a 20 acres being granted to UIATF. Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center built.

Tecumseh was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. He successfully formed a powerful confederacy of Indigneous peoples …

Nisqually citizen, treaty fishing rights warrior, and salmon management advocate, Billy Frank Jr. was a front lines fighter in the fish wars. First arrested as a 14 year old in 1945 for fishing 'off-…

From WCH:On 11 March 1845, the battle of Kororāreka took place in Aotearoa (New Zealand) when Māori rebels defeated British forces and seized the town (now called Russell) during the Northern war. So…

Jim Brady was a Métis political leader and activist in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Along with Malcolm Norris, he is generally regarded as one of the two most influential Métis leaders of his era. Brady…

Fort Mose was the first legally sanctioned Free Black settlement in North America. It was headed by Francisco Menéndez, a Mandinka person who was captured for the slave trade in Gambia and forcibly t…

Deskaheh was a Cayuga (Gayogohó:no') religious and political leader and speaker of the Six Nations Hereditary Council. He traveled in the 1920's to the League of Nations (with a Six Nations passport)…

Jesuit missionaries Jean de Brébeuf and Charles Lalemant were executed by the Haudenosaunee.

Lewis Sheridan Leary was born in this day in 1835 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Leary's father was a free born African-American harnessmaker. Leary moved to Oberlin, Ohio in 1857 and married Mary …

[The Marshall Triology] First time an indigenous land claim heard by US Supreme Court. Began the wardship attitude of Federal government towards Native Nations with Marshall's description of them as …

The Battle of Yellow House Canyon was a battle between a force of Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche) and Apaches against a group of American bison hunters organized into a militia that occurred near present-day Lubb…

From the Martin Sostre Institute: "Martin Ramirez Sostre was a revolutionary anarchist political prisoner and one of the most successful jailhouse lawyers of the twentieth century." Martin was politi…

The Fourth Battle of Tucson was a raid during the lengthy wars between Spanish colonists in Arizona and its region and Apache Indians. At break of day, on March 21, 1784, a force of no more than 500 …

Following the 1967 Six Day War, Israeli forces invade Jordan at the Jordanian town of al-Karama in an attempt to wipe out the Palestinian resistance group Fatah. The battle is considered a key moment…

An attack on the English colony in Virginia led by Opechancanough, brother to the leader of the Powhatan confederacy (Wahunsenacawh). Opechancanough was known to be strongly oppossed to English settl…

Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian, political activist and academic was born on this day in 1942 in Georgetown Guyana.

Born on this day in 1920 was spiritual leader Corbin Harney of the Newe or Western Shoshone people. He was important in leading the fight against nuclear weapons testing on his peoples land, especial…

An infantry battle between the North-west Mounted Police and the Métis militia led by Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont occurred outside Duck Lake, Saskatchewan on this day in 1885. After 30 minutes, Sup…

Vine Victor Deloria Jr. (March 26, 1933 – November 13, 2005, Standing Rock Sioux) was an author, historian, and activist, widely known for his book, 'Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto' (…

John Thomas Patten (27 March 1905 – 12 October 1957) was an Aboriginal Australian civil rights activist and journalist. He was a co-founder of the Aborigines Progressive Association and led some of t…

Anna Mae Aquash was a Mi'kmaq tribal member, mother, Native rights activist and AIM leader. She was involved in the Trail of Broken Treaties and the Occupation of Wounded Knee.

This conflict was the final in a series of anti colonial struggles of the Ashanti people from the then named Gold Coast of Africa (now Ghana) against British rule. Following these prior wars, British…

As reported by Rebecca Nagle (Cherokee):
The Doctrine of Discovery was cited by a U.S. Appeals Court as recently as 2014 and by the Supreme Court as recently as 2005. That Supreme Court decision, Ci…

Apache and Ute forces led by Apache war chief Flechas Rayadas or Striped Arrows lay a successful ambush for US Army dragoons. The battle lasted four hours until US military retreat. With 60 dragoons …

Within days of the Métis victory at the Battle of Duck Lake on March 26, 1885. Cree and Nakota (Assiniboine) bands sympathetic to the Métis cause and with grievances of their own began raiding stores…

Native activist and editor of the newsletter Survival News which documented Fish Wars from the Native side. Organizer for the Fish Wars. She cofounded Women of All Red Nations, which did early organi…

Wikipedia: "He joined the NAACP youth group when he was 12 and participated in the sit-in protests that helped end racial segregation in Chattanooga. He was drafted during the Vietnam War and served …

WCH: On 30 March 1976, a general strike and mass protests were launched in Palestine and by Palestinian citizens of Israel in protest at the Israeli government seizing large amounts of land owned by …

Longtime fighter for treaty fishing rights in the Pacific Northwest, Al served as director and was a founding member of the Survival of American Indians Association among many other contributions to …

From 1986 through 1994, two years after the United States put a hold on full-scale nuclear weapons testing, 536 demonstrations were held at the Nevada Test Site involving 37,488 participants and 15,7…

On this day in 1885, Cree warriors led by war leader Kapapamahchakwew attacked and killed nine officials, clergy and settlers at Frog Lake. Included in those killed was Indian Agent Thomas Quinn, re…

Durbin Feeling was a Cherokee Nation linguist who wrote the primary Cherokee–English dictionary in 1975. He is considered the greatest modern contributor to the preservation of the endangered Cheroke…

John Chiquiti was a Tesuque Pueblo activist and Juris Doctorate holder who dedicated his life to the Native rights struggle. In the 1970's he moved to Suquamish and was involved in many of the import…

One of the largest battles of Victorio's War, a campaign within the larger Apache Wars in which the US Army tried to capture Bidu-ya (Victorio) a warrior and chief of Warm Springs band of the Tchihen…

On this day, 7 April 1760, a rebellion of enslaved people known as Tacky's rebellion broke out in the then-British colony of Jamaica. It was sparked when around 100 mostly Akan and Coromanti people w…

From Wikipedia:
Dany Bébel-Gisler was an Afro-Guadeloupean writer and sociolinguist who specialized in Antillean Creole and ethnology. She was one of the first linguists to defend the preservation a…

Born at Muskowpetung First Nation on April 8, 1937 Bernelda was a member of the George Gordon First Nation. Bernelda Wheeler was a broadcaster, journalist, author, poet, actor, and social activist be…

Antonga (Black Hawk) a Timpanogos war chief led a raid against Mormon settlers. Although they simply drove off a cattle herd which encroached on their lands, this raid was the beginning of Black Hawk…

Sometimes referred to as the First Abenaki War, or the Northern Theatre of Metacom's Rebellion (King Philips War), this treaty signaled the end of this particular Indigenous rebellion. The Wabanaki (…

The Yamasee war was a conflict between the Yamasee peoples with other allied tribes, and the settler colonial Province of Carolina. Other peoples allied with the Yamasee in this conflict include the …

After winning the first battle of the stronghold, the Modocs met once again with US Major General Edward Canby to ask once more for land in their traditional territory instead of being forced onto a …

Shortly after the outbreak of the Métis led North West Rebellion, Cree forces also started an uprising with attacks on colonial officials, clergy, and settlers on April 2nd. The Cree forces involved …

Anastasio Aquino (Nonualco) was born on this day in 1792 in El Salvador. He led an uprising in the Federal Republic of Central America in 1833. The uprising was partially in response to killings of I…

Tuaiwa Hautai Kereopa (known as Eva Rickard) was a Māori activist for land rights and for women's rights within Māoridom. Her methods included public civil disobedience and she is best known for lead…

Born today in 1944, Marie Smallface-Marule was a Kainai Nation member, Indigenous rights activist and lifelong anti-colonial worker. She did work in Africa and across Canada against colonialism and f…

Precedent setting Supreme Court decision on interpretation of the 'Free exercise' clause of the first amendment to the US Constitution which supposedly protects freedom of religion. An organization r…

Maroon communities of escaped enslaved peoples existed in Jamaica from the time of Spanish colonialism and control of Jamaica. In particular, the Windward Maroons were majority from west Africa, Akan…

Hawaiian scholar, author, composer, hula expert, and educator born. Known for her meticulous and dedicated work for the preservation of ʻŌlelo Hawai'i, she is particularly remembered for her 1957 Haw…

Following the student uprising in February of 1970, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago declared a state of emergency on this day in 1970 to try to contain the Black Power Revolution. Prime Min…

Logging company MacMillan Bloedel announced their intention to log Wah-Nah-Jus Hilth-hoo-is (Meares Island) in 1979. The island is the territory of the two Nuu-chah-nulth Nations and they and residen…

Born on this day in 1951, today we honor Zebedee Nungak, an Inuit leader from Nunavik, "Quebec". Raised in the traditional way in Saputiligait, at the age of twelve he was kidnapped by Canadian autho…

On this day in 1885, Métis, Cree, and Dakota forces numbering 280 routed Major General Frederick Middleton's North West Mounted Police and militia force of 900. Although vastly outnumbered, Gabriel D…

On April 26, 1873, a force of ~70 Army soldiers and ~12 Warm Springs Indians scouts went looking for a group of Modoc who had escaped a previous assault attempt by the Army. Mid-day, the Army and War…

Maria Campbell is an influentual Métis (Cree Halfbreed) writer, educator and community worker from Treaty 6 territory, central Saskatchewan, most well-known for her 1973 autobiography, Halfbreed.

Obwaandi'eyaag (Pontiac) was an Odawa war chief who united Native peoples in the Great Lakes region to rise up in a generalized rebellion against British colonialism in the aftermath of the Seven Yea…

From Lakota Times memorial:
Lehman L. Brightman was a ‘icke wicasa’, or common man in Lakota. A ‘icke wicasa’, lives by the principles of that term, in that he does not put himself above others, work…

On this day in 1967, Muhammad Ali reported to the draft board in Houston where he refused to step forward when his name was called. “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles fr…

After the Lakota and Cheyenne win at Battle of the Hundred in Hand, the US Army came to make peace talks. The U.S. agreed to abandon its forts and withdraw from Lakota territory. Treaty negotiations …

PilbaraStrike.org: The Pilbara strike of 1946-49 is one of the most dramatic moments in Australia’s indigenous history. Aboriginal people not only defied the owners of pastoral stations in North-West…

From Canadian Encyclopedia: On 2 May 1885, during the North-West Resistance, Cree and Nakota (Assiniboine) resistors defeated 300 soldiers commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel William Otter at the Battle …

Inuktitut magazine is the longest-running Indigenous language periodical in Canada. First published in 1959, Inuktut magazine has always been Inuit-led, with first editors Mary Panigusiq Cousins, Eli…

Document established a demarcation line east of the Azores and Cape Verde, declaring all lands 'discovered' by Columbus the year before to be exclusively claimed for the Spain and the Catholic Church…

Joe Hawke was a leader of the occupation at Takaparawhau / Bastion Point in 1977 which led to the eventual return of Takaparawhau land where he is now buried. He worked with Dame Whina Cooper for the…

About 100 Chiricahua Apache warriors led by Cochise attacked a small group of soldiers killing them and taking their large herd of cattle and horses. Although only one small Apache victory among many…

Pontiac and ~300 Indigenous allies from various local tribes attacked Fort Detroit. Having been warned by an informant of the attack, the fort's commander had defenses ready. While Pontiac and his fo…

On this day, Paiute warriors of the Humboldt Meadows band, led by Mogoannoga went to Williams Station where they discovered two young Paiute children tied up in the basement. They rescued the childre…

On this day in 2004, Shundahai Network organized a direct action against the Nevada Test Site. Their statement on the action is below:

The Shundahai Network is dedicated to shutting down the Nevada …

This "treaty" followed the Treaty of Moultrie Creek (1823) which was well documented and promised a four million acre reservation in Central Flordia in exchange for Native peoples to move away from t…

After the attack on Williams Station in which warriors led by Mogoannoga, a militia of ~100 settlers forms and marches up the Truckee River to attack the Pyramid Lake Paiute. Approximately 5 miles ou…

Massive uprising in response to a voting reform which would have allowed many more 'local residents' (non-Indigenous) to vote in local elections. The previous situation limited voting to those who ha…

Nianga was a central African man from the Congo region who was sold into slavery in the 1500's and taken to New Spain (Mexico). He escaped his enslavers around 1570 with a band of other enslaved peop…

On this day in 1832, the first battle of Black Hawk's War occurred. The battle was named for the panicked retreat by Major Isaiah Stillman and his detachment of 275 Illinois militia after being attac…

Jesuits and Spanish colonial missions competed with one another for control of mining in Yaqui homelands in the 1600 and early 1700s. In 1684 silver was discovered in the Rio Yaqui Valley and Spanish…

Nine days after Pontiac and his allied forces begin the seige on Fort Detroit, Wyandot warriors gain entry to Fort Sandusky on the pretense of holding council with British forces. Once inside, they k…

Perhaps one of the most difficult lives to try to distill into a short blurb, Hank Adams was a Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux activist known as a successful strategist, tactician, and negotiator. Rais…

Within the context of the Yakima War which began in 1855, this battle is considered a part of the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-Pend d'oreille-Paloos War or the second half of the Yakima War. There was a gen…

Born into slavery in the French controlled island of Saint Dominque, Toussaint L'Ouverture would go on to become a major leader of the Haitian revolution. Although he was able to secure his own freed…

Richard Oakes was a Mohawk leader, activist, and academic involved in sovereignty movements. He was a leader at the occupation of Alcatraz, created one of the first American Indian Studies programs a…

From the historical marker at the site: "In 1803, Igbo captives (also Ibo or Ebo) from West Africa revolted while on a slave ship in Dunbar Creek. It is believed that at least ten Igbo drowned, choos…

Sparrow was arrested on this day in 1984 for fishing for King salmon with a drift net that was 20 fathoms longer than permitted according to Federal fisheries officers. Sparrow did not dispute the fa…

The Jamestown colony began on May 14th, on Tsenacommacah (Virginia), Paspahegh land where the local inhabitants investigated the settlement by canoe that very night. By May 26th a combined force of 4…

A Métis leader, socialist, and political activist, Malcolm Norris was born on May 26, 1900, in Edmonton, Alberta.

Following the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 in which the Great Sioux Reservation was established, the United States began breaking their treaty promises nearly immediately. Ohiyesa remembers, "Scarcely…

On this day in 1885 Alberta Field Force under General Thomas B. Strange attacked Cree forces led by Kapapamahchakwew (Wandering Spirit) near Frenchman's Butte Saskatchewan. Cree forces were outnumber…

On about this date in 1720, Tomba of the Baga people the Guinea coastline of Africa led a mutiny on a slave ship for which he died. He was assisted by a female enslaved person who's name is now lost …

Canada and the U.S. first established a base at Goose Bay in 1941 to service wartime flights between North America and Europe. The US Air Force ended their program at the base in 1976, with British, …

Sometime in June of 1791, the captain allowed at least 50 Haida traders onto his boat without arming his men. Haida leader Xhuuyaa is reported to have taken the keys to the arms chest and forced the …

On this day in 1763, a group of Ojibwe and Thâkîwaki (Sauk) warriors played a game of baaga'adowe (lacrosse) outside the fort, inviting the British soldiers to watch. After purposefully throwing the…

Born on this day in 1952 in Syracuse, New York, Thaioronióhte Dan David was raised from the age of four at Kanehsatà:ke Mohawk territory. Remembered as the father of Aboriginal Peoples Television Net…

On this day in 1696, the Pueblo people killed five missionaries and twenty-one settlers, as well as burning down a few churches. This revolt was three years after the reconquest of New Mexico by y Di…

From BlackPast article by Samuel Momodu:
On June 1, 1730, Captain George Scott sailed his ship, the Little George, carrying ninety-six captured Africans from the Bonnana Islands off the Coast of Guin…

After a particularly harsh winter sometimes refered to as The Starving Times, the colonists at Jamestown completely abandoned the fort and left with Sir Thomas Gates who had arrived to resupply the c…

A Kiowa warrior and member of the Kiowa military society Koitsenko, Sét:àñ:gyà led many raids against settlements, wagon trains, and army outposts during the mid 1800's. He fought with Kiowa's and Co…

Leader of the Chiricahua band of Apaches, Cochise initially kept peace with the Americans after the end of the Mexican-American war (having long fought Mexico). After the Bascom Affair of 1861 in whi…

"Act 57, Sec. 30 of the 1896 Laws of the Republic of Hawaiʻi mandated that English become the only medium of instruction throughout Hawaiʻi and prohibited the use of the Hawaiian language in schools"…

from wiki: The IITC was formed at a gathering on the land of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, in South Dakota, June 8–16, 1974. This gathering would later be known as the First International Indian Tre…

WCH:On 9 June 2022 Indigenous Maasai people in Tanzania from the villages of Ololosokwan, Oloirien, Kirtalo and Arash gathered to protest against land enclosures by the Tanzanian government. On June …

WCH: On 11 June 1981, the first of two violent raids by Québec police took place on the Listuguj (Restigouche) reserve of the Mi'kmaq First Nations people. Officers in full riot gear attacked the res…

The killings by members of Ngare Raumati occurred after Marion and his party had stayed more than five weeks. It is likely the French explorers were killed after fishing in a place which had a ban on…

On this day in 1870, Tsêñt’àiñ:dè led a successful raid on US Army Post Fort Sill, stealing 73 mules. Tsêñt’àiñ:dè was a Kiowa leader and led many raids on settlers trying to destroy the Kiowa way of…

Brother to Tecumseh and often referred to as 'The Prophet', Tenskwatawa was an important Shawnee spiritual leader who helped form Tecumseh's confederacy. A widespread confederacy formed to oppose US …

Goyaałé was a military leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. Following the end of the Mexican-American war in 1848, Americans continued to encroach on Apache …

On this day in 1976, the Soweto uprising began in part in response to a new policy of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in schools. South Africa History Online points out that the basis for the …

On December 25, 1526, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor granted Pánfilo de Narváez a license to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of Mexico for the Kingdom of Spain. His intent was to claim Florida for Sp…

The St. Joseph Mutiny was a mutiny which occurred in June 1837 among the 1st West India Regiment of the British Army. It was led by recently arrived Africans who had been "liberated" from illegal sla…

In June of 1876 General Crook's column was marching northward in what is now Wyoming with the intent to find the resisting Lakota and Cheyennes and force them onto the reservation. Crook's force, cal…

Vern Harper, ᐊᓯᓂ was a Cree Elder, medicine man, Indigenous rights activist, veteran and boxer from Tkaranto (Toronto). Orphaned at a young age, he was separated from his family and culture and put i…

WCH:On 18 June 2017, a new sculpture in Midleton, Ireland, was dedicated to the Native American Choctaw nation, in recognition of support from the Choctaw people during the great famine in 1847. In t…

Merata Mita (19 June 1942 – 31 May 2010) was a Māori filmaker who inspired other Indigenous filmmakers across the world. She made documentaries on Māori resistance and internationalist anti-apartheid…

WCH: On 21 June 2020 a statue of Danish-Norwegian coloniser, Hans Egede, was vandalised in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. It was daubed with red paint and the word "decolonise". The incident followe…

In response to the coming to light of child graves at Residential Schools in Canada, the rate of arson attacks on Catholic churches spiked from 2021 forward. These two churches burned on the same nig…

About a month and a half after Pontiac and his forces begin their attack on Fort Detroit, the uprising had spread to Fort Pitt. While considered a part of what is called Pontiac's rebellion, this war…

The fight was an overwhelming victory for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho, who were led by several major war leaders, including Tȟašúŋke Witkó (Crazy Horse) and Chief Phizí (Gall), and had…

WCH:On 25 June 1878, the Kanak rebellion in New Caledonia began when Indigenous Melanesian warriors killed four colonial French policeman, as well as most European settlers in the La Foa region. The …

Martinican poet, author, and politician. He was "one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature" and coined the word négritude in French.

Olive Morris was a Jamaican-born, British political activist, and feminist leader who was active in the British Civil Rights Movement and the feminist and squatters' movements. As a teenager she left…

WCH:On 26 June 2021 just before 4 AM, St Ann's church in Similkameen First Nations land in Canada was set on fire and later burned to the ground. 45 minutes later, nearby Chopaka Church was burned do…

In 1662 Metacom became sachem of the Pokanotek and Grand Sachem of the Wampanoag Confederacy following the death of his brother, who had succeeded Massasoit. Metacom believed his brother was poisoned…

Born on this day in 1903 in Trinidad, George Padmore was a journalist, radical activist, and theoretician. After moving to the US to study in 1925, Padmore moved to Moscow, USSR in 1929 to head the C…

On his way to Peru, this colonial official traveled through Panama, during which he commissioned captain Pedro de Ursúa to subdue the uprisings of escaped enslaved peoples in the isthmus of Panama. T…

On June 29, 1960 as King Baudouin parades through Leopoldville, Ambroise Boimbo ran up to his car and took his ceremonial sword. While he was arrested and the sword returned, the photo and symbology …

Born Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa, Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the Congo independence movement to end Belgium colonialism and the first Prime Minister of independent Congo. He was also an African nationa…

Lee Maracle was an influential Stó꞉lō and Métis writer and community organizer from North Vancouver, British Columbia.

This treaty council established Fort Hall Shoshone Bannock reservation (Pohoko’ikkatee) in Idaho near Pocatello. Historically significant because along with the terrible 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie (…

The delegation inlcuded Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) Chief qiyəplenəxʷ, (Capilano), Quwʼutsun (Cowichan) Chief Charley Isipaymilt and Secwepemc (formerly Shuswap) Chief Basil David. Simon Pierre, a young K…

Ahead of President Trump's planned rally at Mount Rushmore celebrating the Fourth of July, protesters blockaded the main road to the monument. The protesters shut down the road leading to the event g…

Two Tuscarora leaders, Terrutawanaren and Teonnottein, traveled from North Carolina to Conestoga in Pennsylvania. The leaders sought to dismantle the slave trade in Indigenous peoples which was occur…

Today we remember Hishua Adesh, a member of Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, born on Fort Berthold Reservation (North Dakota). Tillie was a member of the MaXho XhaDa or Alkalai Lodge clan, and wa…

In direct disregard to the requests of the United Indian Nations aka the Northwest Confederacy, US Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance which establishes the Northwest Territory. This established …

Born on this day in 1943, Pauline Shirt was a member of Saddle Lake Cree Nation, Alberta. She is remembered as a knowledge keeper, singer, elder, life-long educator and Indigenous rights advocate. In…

From Cultural Survival:
On July 14, 1923, the Hereditary Chief of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Deskaheh Levi General (Cayuga), traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, to speak before the League of Nations…

Nelson Mandela was born on this day in 1918. Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist, anti-colonial fighter, socialist, 27 years a political prisoner and finally the head of state of free…

From BlackPast:
Psychiatrist and anti-colonial cultural theorist, Frantz Fanon was born in the French West Indies, in Fort-de-France, Martinique on July 20, 1925. Frantz Fanon studied under the poet…

Upon learning that the US Military intended to violate the terms of the Macomb treaty which had promised to not remove the Seminole from Florida, combined forced attacked a trading post and U.S. Army…

The 1974 occupation, led by Louis Cameron of the Ojibway Warriors Society, began as a four-day youth conference.

The battle of Burnt Corn was a skirmish between Muscogee Red Sticks and the US Army which ended in Red Stick victory. Considered to be the opening battle in the Creek War or Red Stick War, the US Arm…

This battle was the first major engagement of the Seminole Wars. Led by Andrew Jackson and justified by John Quincy Adams as necessary for national "self-defense", it marks the beginning of the Ameri…

Battle during Pontiac's Rebellion in which British troops attacked Pontiac's forces in an attempt to break his siege of Detroit. Pontiac was ready for the attack and defeated the British troops ~2 mi…

Among other colonial oppressions leading to the rebellion, in 1902, governor of German East Africa, Gustav Adolf von Götzen ordered villages to grow cotton as a cash crop for export. German policies …

After weeks of ceremony and discussion, Sir William Johnson, representing the British Crown, and representatives of 24 First Nations conclude the Treaty of Fort Niagara. The discussions covered the R…

Translated to mean language nest or voice nest, Punana Leo was the first Indigenous Language immersion pre-school in the so-called United States. Founded by Larry Kimura, Kauanoe Kamanā, and William …

On August 1, 2010, in the midst of other mass demonstrations and sit-ins at a number of hotels and government buildings on Easter Island, members of the Hito Rangi clan began to occupy the Hanga Roa …

This treaty marks the official end of the Northwest Confederacy and the war they fought against settler encroachment across the Ohio River. It established yet another supposedly permanent line over w…

American troops landed on Mackinac Island to try to retake it from British and Native forces during the War of 1812. The fort there was strategically located due to its importance for controlling nav…

An early 'skirmish' in the War of 1812, Tecumseh's forces were outnumbered 8 to 1 by the US Military and escaped with a single casualty. Major Thomas Van Horne and 200 U.S. soldiers were en route so…

On this day in 2008 the community celebrated the first harvest of a bowhead whale since the 1928 whaling ban. After >20 years of advocacy by Inuit leaders including elder Naalak Nappaaluk (ᓈᓚᒃ ᓇᑉᐹᓗᒃ)…

Following the August 5th tailings pond breach at Mount Polley mine, a group of Tahltan Nation elders known as the Klabona Keepers began a blockade of Imperial Metal’s Red Chris Mine near Iskut in Nor…

Francisco de Chicora was a Native man (possibly Catawba) who was kidnapped in 1521 near Winyah Bay (in what would become South Carolina) by Spanish explorer Francisco Gordillo and taken to Hispaniola…

Lord De La Warr had just arrived in Jamestown after the colony was nearly abandoned in June. He adopted a much harsher and more war like attitude towards relations with the local Indigenous peoples (…

From Black Women Radicals Database:
"In one of the largest demonstrations staged in South African history, twenty thousand women of all races marched to the Union Buildings on August 9, 1956 in prote…

WCH:Led by a medicine man named Popé, the uprising began on August 10, and by August 21 Spanish colonisers have been forced to retreat. 400 Spanish were killed, and the other 2000 Spanish settlers we…

Josina was a leader of FRELIMO and a soldier in the struggle for the independence of Mozambique from Portuguese colonial rule. Becoming radicalized as a young person in school, she was involved in a …

Formed by ten Native American college students disillusioned with some tribal leaders, NIYC was formed to advocate for tribal sovereignty, self determination, treaty rights, and cultural preservation…

Martinican writer, teacher, scholar, anti-colonial and feminist activist, and Surrealist. She co-founded the Martinique cultural journal Tropiques, of which she was also an editor, along with Aimé Cé…

Outraged at the outcome of the Treaty of Fort Wayne, Tecumseh and 400 armed warriors of his confederacy traveled to Vincennes, Indiana to confront pro-slavery Indiana territorial governor William Hen…

This battle was one of seven led by Kas-tziden (Nana) of the Chihenne band (Warm Springs Apache) of the Chiricahua Apache. His leadership was the continuation of Victorio's war after Bidu-ya (Victori…

Shortly after Tecumseh's win at the Battle of Brownstown, his forces combined with the British took Fort Detroit, using deception to convince Hull to surrender the Fort. Using intelligence from mail …

Circumstances leading to the war include Minnesota becoming a state the same year as the 1858 Dakota Treaty in which the Dakota lost the northern half of their reservation. Settler population in the …

First organized attack led by Little Crow in the Dakota War of 1862. Famously the Dakota killed hated settler trader Andrew Myrick who operated two stores in Indian Agencies. Myrick had been at the m…

On this day in 1854, a contingent of soldiers entered a Sicangu and Oglala Lakota camp to apprehend someone accused of killing a Mormon settler's cow. Such issues were supposed to be resolved by the …

Nat Turner was an enslaved person in Virginia who planned a revolt for many years. A solar eclipse in the beginning of 1831 as well as an atmospheric disturbance causing the sun to appear green in Au…

William L Patterson was an African-American leader in the Communist Party USA and head of the International Labor Defense, which defended Sacco and Venzetti and a member of the Civil Rights Congress.…

Ramona Bennett is a Puyallup leader and activist who was involved in the 1960s and 1970s Fish Wars of the US Pacific Northwest and in tribal sovereignty struggles for her tribe and others. She was al…

From ICT:

On August 29, 1970, a group of Native Americans led by United Native Americans, ascended Mount Rushmore and set up camp behind the deplorable monument to colonialism that defaces the Blac…

Abenaki activist, musician, and one of the most acclaimed Indigenous film makers in the world. Best known for her documentaries Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance about the Oka Crisis and Incident …

From The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture:
Born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, in 1939 and raised by maternal grandparents, he grew up in a traditional Ponca lifestyle, which later shaped his s…

Settlers from the Massachusetts bay colonies of Plymouth and Saybrook had greatly intensified attacks on Native inhabitants in the preceeding months, with most historians considering the Pequot War t…

Last sovereign of Kingdom of Hawai'i. Lili'uokalani succeeded her brother on the throne in 1891, she fought to restore Native Hawaiian sovereignty after white landowners had forced him at gunpoint to…

Around 4 am on this day in 1862, Dakota (Mdewakanton and Wahpekute) forces of ~200 attacked ~170 US Army troops at their camp near Birch Coulee (Minnesota). The Dakota victory incurred the heaviest c…

Today we celebrate the long resistance of Goyahkla (Geronimo) and other Apache fighters including Lozen, the sister of Bidu-ya (Victorio). As remembered by James Kaywaykla, an Apache child who was pr…

From MOHAI: "On September 4, 1968, about ten Native Americans set fishing nets in the Nisqually River, in defiance of Washington state law. They were supported by a group of about 50 people, represen…

The British and French fighting in North America during the Seven Years War ended with this capitulation, which is effectively the end of French Empire in North America. Because the Seven Years War w…

The background to this police killing of an Indigenous person must begin with land theft at least in the 1930's. However, I will also mention that it is said that the people there are decendents of T…

Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant) was one of many leaders involved in the Northwest Confederacy, which at the time referred to themselves as United Indian Nations. Native groups part of the confederacy we…

From USask: Born into poverty, Howard Adams [Métis] became one of the most highly educated, outspoken, and controversial Indigenous leaders of his time. As an educator, political leader, and writer h…

Jemmy sometimes referred to as Cato, led the largest slave revolt in the 'Southern Colonial Era'. Himself and ~20 other enslaved peoples somewhat recently arrived from the Kingdom of Kongo escaped an…

In July of 1970 Ramona Bennett, Bob Satiacum and other Puyallup's established a camp on tribal property adjacent to Cushman hospita for the purpose of providing security and support for their fisherm…

Don Luis was kidnapped by Spanish explorers in 1561 from what is now coastal Virginia. He was Native, possibly Kiskiack or Paspahegh both of which were member tribes of the Powhatan confederacy. He w…

Following an earlier successful rebellion, a coalition of Mapuche -Picunche tribes that included native peoples from Aconcagua, Santiago, and Cachapoal united under the single command of toqui Michim…

Quanah Parker and Isatai'i were two Comanche leaders who in 1873 united the Comanche in an effort to protect their people from buffalo hunters and other whites they feared were ending the Comanche wa…

Born on this day in 1924, Amílcar Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, and diplomat. He is widely remembered as one of Africa's foremost anti-colon…

Leonard Peltier is an renowned Anishinaabe, Lakota and Dakota warrior, writer, painter, and community organizer, who has been imprisoned for decades because of his involvement in the American Indian …

On this day in 1859, John Price, who had recently escaped enslavement, was kidnapped by a US Marshall (Federal Police) who sought to return him to his enslavers under the Fugitive Slave Act in Oberli…

This battle occurred three days into the Northern Cheyenne Exodus, in which 353 Cheyenne people escaped Darlington Agency Oklahoma where they had been forcibly relocated from their homelands in Monta…

About 300 Seneca warriors during Pontiac's Rebellion ambush a wagon train and it's armed escort killing 81 British soldiers before the British retreat. The battle occurred near Niagara Gorge which wa…

The execution of John Lawson led to the outbreak of the Tuscarora War, which was an anti colonial war fought against English settler encrouchment on their lands in the Carolinas. Additionally, the wa…

From WCH: On 16 September 1874 (or 1873), Mexican anarchist communist Ricardo Flores Magón was born in San Antonio Eloxochitlán (later renamed after him), an Indigenous Mazatec community in the Mexic…

Prior to this treaty many Muskogee speaking peoples (Creek) had been coming south to Florida due to settler encrouchment and the Red Stick War. Conflict between white settlers and Indigenous peoples …

from WCH:On 18 September 1990 during the Kanesatake resistance (also known as the Oka crisis), Canadian soldiers and Québec police attempted to invaded the Kahnawake reservation. Kanyen'kehà:ka (Moha…

Lenape leaders had earlier in the year signed a forged draft deed presented to them by John and Thomas Penn (sons of William Penn) after being shown a map which purposefully misrepresented the area t…

The Tuscarora War was an anti colonial war fought by the Tuscarora against English settler encrouchment on their lands in the Carolinas. Additionally, the war was fought against the increased slave t…

Following the Treaty council at Walla Walla in June 1855, settlers flooded into Yakama territory in what is now Washington State. Despite promises made by Isaac Stevens that settlers would not come f…

Patricia Monture-Angus, Mohawk, lawyer, activist, educator, and author was born on this day in 1958. Shortly after graduating law school she filed action against the Attorney General of Ontario to av…

After their forced removal from their homelands in Montana to Oklahoma, 353 Cheyenne made an escape starting September 10th to return to their homelands. Known as the Northern Cheyenne Exodus, this b…

Sin-aixt (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation) leader of the successful Fort Lawton takeover. Head of United Indians of All Tribes Foundation (UIATF) and Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Cen…

A joint attack by Ute forces against autocratic Indian Agent Nathan Meeker and nearby US Army troops at Milk Creek occurred on this day in 1879. Ute forces led by Nicaagat attacked U.S. troops led by…

Conducted by the first Indiana Territorial Governor William Henry Harrison who was very pro-slavery. Harrison conducted the treaty proceedings with Lenape and Potawatomi representatives, at the begin…

Approximately 200 people gathered on Parliament Hill after a two week caravan from Vancouver to deliver demands to the Prime Minister. He refused to meet with them, instead sending the newly formed R…

On this day in 2013, the first Orange Shirt Day is observed by Cariboo-Chilcotin School District 27. The day of remembrance for residential school survivors came out of a May 2013 St. Joseph Mission …

James Somerset was a man from West Africa who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Virginia as a child. His slave owner moved with him to England in 1769. He ceased serving his master and escaped o…

The only treaty signed by the Newe people (western Shoshone) in Nevada. A friendship treaty in which no lands were ceded, the treaty allowed the US to pass through their lands and promised twenty yea…

WCH: On 1 October 2020 two members of the al-Huwaitat Indigenous tribe in Saudi Arabia were arrested for criticising the Saudi government and its NEOM development project on social media. One of them…

Adapted from Cultural Survival's article and wikipedia:
Born on this day in 1949, Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask (Kanaka Maoli) was a scholar, poet, and champion of sovereignty for Hawaiian Peoples. She was …

On this day in 1855, US Troops from The Dalles led by Maj. Granville O. Haller consisting of 102 soldiers and a mountain Howitzer were defeated by Yakama warriors at Toppenish Creek. The US aggressio…

On this day in 1763 King George III of Great Britain issued a proclamation forbading new settlements west of a line roughly following the watershed boundary of the Appalachian mountains (Eastern Cont…

Brigadier General Josiah Harmar of the US Army marched with his forces in an attempt to attack Miami forces in northwestern Ohio. The Miami people's center was at a Kekionga near modern day Fort Wayn…

Mauna Kea is the most sacred dormant volcano of Native Hawaiian religion and culture, and in Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) tradition is home to the sky god Wākea and other gods. On October 7, 2014 t…

John Tecumseh Jones was an Ojibwe person born in 1808 who later moved to Kansas and was adopted into the Ottawa tribe. He was a businessman, Baptist minister, Ottawa leader and friend of abolitionist…

On this day in 1823 Mary Ann Shadd educator, publisher, lawyer, and abolitionist was born in Wilmington Delaware. Her parents were free Black abolitionists active in the movement and used their home …

The only major battle in the resistance known as Lord Dunmore's war, it was fought between the Virginia militia and Shawnee and Mingo warriors led by Hokoleskwa (Cornstalk). Hokoleskwa was previously…

In 1865 Jamaice there was widespread poverty and racial injustice. While emancipation was on 1 August 1834, many Black Jamaicans were essentially unable to vote due to poll taxes and oppressed in nea…

An early part of the Northwest Indian War, Colonel Benjamin Logan led the Kentucky militia on raids into Shawnee territory. Most warriors were away defending Miami villages from a separate colonial r…

At the invitation of the Western Shoshone Tribe and Corbin Harney, an anti-nuclear activist and spiritual leader for the Newe people, ~3,000 protesters from 12 different countries gathered for "Heali…

After state police rammed a fishing boat and knocked two Native fisherman into the water the week before, Maiselle Bridges and others involved in the Survival of American Indians staged a planned fis…

Elma Francois was born on this day in 1897 in Overland, Saint Vincent, Elma Francois is remembered as a "national heroine of Trinidad and Tobago," and a "vociferous Africentric activist". She was kno…

At 11 pm on this day in 1859 abolitionist John Brown and 21 others began their raid on Harper's Ferry in an attempt to seize arms and initiate a widespread slave revolt. Brown was aided by important …

Chipco, also known as Echo Emathla Chopco (Deer Leader) was a Muscogee speaking Seminole leader in the 1800s. His family were Red Sticks forced to flee to Florida after the War of 1812 when he was yo…

The exact location of the failed colony is somewhat debated however it was most likely somewhere near Winyah Bay, South Carolina. Ayllon and a slaving party had landed there in 1521 and kidnapped ~60…

Daughter of Maiselle McCloud Bridges and Alvin Bridges, Alison was an activist for Native treaty fishing rights as a child and teenager. She grew up and lived most of her life at Frank's Landing. She…

American Indian Movement warriors and brothers, Dino and Gary Butler are acquitted in a Portland Oregon trial. They were accused of the 1981 killing of a white grave robber who was targeting Siletz g…

WCH: 21 Oct 1920 the battle of Cheongsan-ri began in Manchuria, in which the Korean Independence Army under the command of anarchist general Kim Jwa-jin (pictured) wiped out an entire division of the…

Louis Riel was a leader of the francophone Métis communities in Red River (now Winnipeg), Montana, and central Saskatchewan. In 1874, he described the Canadian Confederation as "a deceit". Although h…

The federal government bought the property in 1939 from the Puyallup Tribe, and guaranteed the site would always be used for the benefit of Indians. Cushman Hospital served as a tuberculosis sanitori…

Born on this day in 1900, Funmilayo was an anti-colonial activist and feminist from Nigeria. In 1944, she founded the Abeokuta Ladies’ Club, which later evolved into the Abeokuta Women’s Union (AWU).…

Settler and rebel leader Nathaniel Bacon dies from dystentary, leading to the break up and dissolution of his rebel forces soon after. Bacon's rebellion is seen as a precursor to the American Revolut…

First fighting of the Puget Sound War. "Eaton's Rangers", a citizen militia under Captain Charles Eaton, were involved in a clash with Nisqually tribesmen. James McAllister, first lieutenant of Eaton…

On October 26, 1950, President of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Albizu Campos was holding a meeting in Fajardo, when he received word that his house in San Juan was surrounded by police waiting …

From WCH: On 1 November 1954, the Algerian revolution began as Algerians rose up against French colonial rule, and launched 70 simultaneous attacks on police and military targets around the country b…

Esther Deer of Kahnawake Kanien′kehá:ka, (Mohawk) was a successful vaudeville artist, singer and activist. She was involved in the American Indian Defense Association, especially organizing for Nativ…

Also known as the Battle of a Thousand Slain, Miami leader Mihšihkinaahkwa, Shawnee leader Weyapiersenwah, and Lenape leader Buckongahelas led Northwest Indian Confederacy forces to a decisive win ag…

The Spanish had established a mission in the area in 1769 after the Portola expedition, leading to degradation of the local ecology due to grazing and purposeful cutting of oak trees which provided a…

Game Wardens attacked by (Mitchikanibikok Inik) Algonquins of Barriere Lake when trying to search them for beaver pelts. At the time the Algonquins were resisting the imposition of a beaver trapline …

At the time, Florida was controlled by the Spanish and the rest of the south by the British. Six years earlier, ten enslaved people and a very young child made a daring escape and showed up to the Sp…

Following his conference with Tecumseh, Indiana Territorial Governor Harrison decided to attack the Native confederacy's stronghold at Tippecanoe, while Tecumseh and his forces were away. The Shawnee…

On this day in 1841, a mutiny occurred onboard the ship Creole carrying 135 enslaved people from Richmond to New Orleans.. Madison Washington and others killed John R. Hewell, one of the slave trader…

An Aquinnah Wampanoag elder and lifelong advocate for Indigenous rights, Wamsutta is best known for the rescinded invitation he received to the 350th celebration of the Plymouth pilgrims landing at P…

Tuscarora activist and sovereignty leader, he was a key figure in the protest against the Tuscarora Reservoir. He was involved in sovereignty struggles for the Akwesasne Mohawks against incorrect sum…

The Indians of All Tribes begin their re-occupation of Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay Area, further inspiring the already rising Red Power movement across the continent.

On this day in 1775, Brit forces defeat American Patriots at the Battle of Kemp's Landing in Virginia. Joseph Hutchings, commander of the Americans, is captured by two persons he'd formerly enslaved.…

The protests broke out when thousands of Igbo women from the Bende District, Umuahia and other places in Nigeria traveled to the town of Oloko to protest against the Warrant Chiefs, whom they accused…

This day in Brazil is celebrated to honor the death of Zumbi, Brazilian quilombola leader and one of the pioneers of resistance to enslavement of Africans by the Portuguese in colonial Brazil. We tak…

On November 22, 2014, a small group of Dene trappers called the Northern Trappers Alliance set up a checkpoint on Saskatchewan’s Highway 955, allowing locals to pass while blockading the industrial t…

On this day in 1864, Kiowa, Comanche, and Ná'ishą(Plains Apache) won a battle against the US Army led by Kit Carson and drove a column of 335 soldiers with two howitzers away. In the midst of the US …

Born today in Tasialuk in 1947 was John Amagoalik, Inuit leader, activist, politician, writer. Sometimes referred to as the Father of Nunavut, his leadership and involvement helped in the creation of…

Aquinnah Wampanoag elder and lifelong advocate for Indigenous rights, Wamsutta Frank James was uninvited to the 350th anniversary 'celebration' of the Pilgrim landing at Plymouth rock after his plann…

On Thanksgiving day 1997, Indigenous mourners and their allies were brutalized by more than 150 Plymouth police, county sheriffs, and state police resulting in 25 arrests. In particular, anti-Black r…

With Indigenous supporters from across North America, Wampanoag elder and United American Indians of New England leader Wamsutta Frank James led the march to the Pilgrim Hall Museum. There they deman…

Māori of Ngāti Pou from Whangaroa Harbour in Aotearoa (New Zealand) killed ~70 Europeans on the British brigantine Boyd. This was the highest number of Europeans killed by Māori in a single event in …

Gabriel Dumont was an important Métis leader best known for his leadership in important battles during the North-West Rebellion including the battles at Duck Lake and Batoche. Dumont could speak seve…

Adeline Wanatee (Meskwaki) was born today in 1910, an activist for Native American and women's rights, anti-boarding school work, and a skilled textile artist. Wanatee was an artist and tribal leader…

The settlement of this lawsuit which gave nothing to the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation, was the end of a protracted struggle led by the Ojicree community to stop uranium exploration on th…

Radicalized by the untimely, unnecesary death of her two year old son Rene, who was denied medicine by the French colonial government of Ubangi-Shari (later Central African Republic) for the treatmen…

In an attempt to secure their lands and prevent the Northwest Indian War, United Indian Nations or Northwest Indian Confederacy submit a letter to Congress signed by Thayendanegea and representatives…

After being likely the first Europeans to sight Aotearoa, on December 13th, Abel Tasman and crew are attacked while at anchor off Mohua, or Golden Bay. Members of Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri made this first k…

The Second Seminole War had ended in August 1842, and a period between then and this date 1855 saw increasing pressures from settlers and the US Military on the Seminoles who remained in Florida. The…

This battle during Red Cloud's War (Maȟpíya Lúta) was between the US Army and a confederation of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes in northern Wyoming. A group of ten warriors including ȟašúŋk…

WCH: On 22 December 1988 Brazilian rubber worker activist, environmentalist and Indigenous rights advocate Chico Mendes was assassinated by a rancher.
To try to protect the Amazon rainforest, rubber …

A battle and an ambush occurred on this day in 1598 when Mapuche people led by Pelantaru defeated Spanish conquerors led by Martín García Óñez de Loyola at Curalaba, southern Chile. Pelantaru and his…

On this day in 1521, the earliest recorded slave rebellion in the Americas occurred in Santo Domingo, on the island of Hispaniola. Just days after the rebellion, the colonial authorities introduced a…

On this day in 1553, Mapuche forces led by Lautaro attacked the Spanish fort at Tucapel, Chile. This attack was part of a larger uprising of the Mapuche against Spanish colonialists. The Mapuche lead…

One of the major battles in the Seminole Wars and a victory for the Muscogee and Seminole forces. Following the signing of the Indian Removal Act and coercive treaty proceedings with the Seminole, Cr…

In the aftermath of the Dakota War of 1862, the US Military held trials for ~400 Dakota people involved in the war. Some trials lasted less than five minutes, the Dakota were given no defense represe…

Considered the battle that sparked the Second Seminole War, it was a decisive defeat for American forces. A force of ~180 Seminole and Afro-Seminole/Maroon warriors attacked two US Army companies, ki…

Constance Cummings-John was a Sierra Leonean educationist, politician, and anti colonial activist. She was the first woman in Africa to join a municipal council and in 1966 became the first woman to …