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Monday, August 27, 2007

Role Models & Leaders

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 
--> 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.   --> John Trudell is an American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist whose wife and 3 children died in a suspicious fire.
--> 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

--> 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. 
--> Marlon Brando refused Academy Award for Godfather due to media depiction of Native people.   --> Muhammad Ali participated in “Longest Walk” of AIM (American Indian Movement).
--> Ted Kennedy was a leader on issues of Native Education.  He helped pass Indian Education Act & Tribal College Act.