Bits and Pieces of Native History From Swear Words To The Actions of Teddy Roosevelt, Things You May Not Know By Panther White Trees ___________________________________________________________________ 1750 - Moor's Indian Charity School is founded in Connecticut. It moved to New Hampshire in 1769, as Dartmouth College, it encourages enrollment of Indians. ___________________________________________________________________ "Boys, this was once all our country, but our fathers had not their eyes open as we have; our pale face brethren told us to move a little further and a little further, until now we are on our last stepping ground. Now, the only way to hold that even is to get educated ourselves." Henry Jones, quoted by Ellis B. Childers, Creek ___________________________________________________________________ 1751 - Benjamin Franklin cites Iroquois League as model for his Albany Plan of the Union, later an influence on the U. S. Constitution. ___________________________________________________________________ "This man was going to show the people how they could come back after they died. They thought he was some kind of medicine man. What he meant was that, if you led a good life, your soul would have eternal life. But the Indians thought that he could bring the dead back to life. Everybody started sending their children to that church.' Jim Whitewolf, Kiowa - Apache ___________________________________________________________________ 1802 - Federal Law prohibits the sale of liquor to Indians. ___________________________________________________________________ "We send our little Indian boys and girls to school, and when they come back talking English, they come back swearing. There is no swear words in the Indian Languages, and I have not yet learned to swear." Gertrude S. Bonnin, Yankton Sioux ___________________________________________________________________ 1879 - In a ruling on a lawsuit filed by Ponce Chief Standing Bear, the U.S. Federal Court in Nebraska upholds the right of Indians to sue. ___________________________________________________________________ "They made us many promises, more than I can remember. They never kept but one - they promised to take our land, and they took it." Red Cloud, Oglala Sioux ___________________________________________________________________ 1901 - Two days before leaving the presidency, Theodore Roosevelt issued eight executive orders transferring 2.5 million acres of timbered Indian reservation land to the National Forest Service. ___________________________________________________________________ Reprinted with permission from Seven Directions, The Newsletter of the Cherokee Language and Cultural Circle. This website: Copyright © 2002 Dream World Media, LLC. / Urban Mozaik Magazine. All rights reserved. The opinions expressed in Urban Mozaik Magazine are not necessarily those of Urban Mozaik Magazine and the publisher cannot be held responsible for them. This website/publication, in whole or in part, may not be reproduced without written permission from the publisher.