============================================================ $20 CASH from HBO! Join now and receive the powerful, provocative, enchanting and innovative programming that HBO offers. If you order right now, HBO will give you $20 Cash Back! http://click.topica.com/caaakLeb1ddNBb2HgmNa/HBO ============================================================
May is Native Heroes Month Quiz Celebrates the Diversity of Noteworthy Indians In honor of our "Draw a Native Hero" contest, Blue Corn Comics declares May to be Native Heroes Month. The month is dedicated to all the sung and unsung Native people who have made America the multicultural miracle it is today. Why is May Native Heroes Month? Why not? Native people are tired of having their history ghettoized in November, and nothing much happens in May. Besides, our "Draw a Native Hero" contest ends May 31 and we want schoolkids to finish their year with an entertaining and educational blast. As we define them, "Native heroes" includes the anonymous heroes who domesticated corn and built civilizations such as Cahokia, historical heroes such as Pocahontas and Sitting Bull, modern heroes such as Will Rogers and Wilma Mankiller, and personal heroes such as one's parents or teachers. It also includes fictional heroes such as Tonto, Tony Hillerman's Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Thunderbird of the X-Men, and Billy and Drew of Peace Party. To celebrate the newly-minted Native Heroes Month, here's a short quiz on the subject. The answers are at the bottom. Feel free to print or distribute this quiz to others. ***** Questions: 1. Who said: "You must not hurt anybody or do harm to anyone. You must not fight. Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life"? 2. Why did the patriots at the Boston Tea Party dress like Indians? 3. Whom does this passage in "Famous Indians" describe: "Profoundly disturbed by the growing menace to Indian lands and life represented by white expansion, he worked out a great plan for his people's future. The only Indian hope, he believed, lay in uniting. He dreamed of a powerful confederation of tribes which would create a great Indian state centered around the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes." 4. What's the highest position an Indian has reached in the United States government and who accomplished this feat? 5. Which Indian did many people think was the Athlete of the (20th) Century? 6. Which Indian woman was named "Woman of the Year" by President Eisenhower in 1952 and won a Trustee Award from the First Americans in the Arts in 1996? 7. Who is scheduled to be the first Indian astronaut in space? ***** Answers 1. Wovoka (Pauite), 1890. 2. The patriots who instigated the "Boston Tea Party" dressed as Indians because Indians represented freedom from tyranny to them. "For a hundred years after our Revolution, Americans credited Native Americans as a source of their democratic institutions. Revolutionary-era cartoonists used images of Indians to represent the colonies against Britain. Virginia's patriot rifle companies wore Indian clothes and moccasins as they fought the redcoats. When colonists took action to oppose unjust authority, as in the Boston Tea Party or the anti-rent protests against Dutch plantations in the Hudson River valley during the 1840's, they chose to dress as Indians, not to blame Indians for the demonstrations but to appropriate a symbol identified with liberty." James W. Loewen, "Lies My Teacher Told Me" 3. Tecumseh (Shawnee). 4. Vice President Charles Curtis (Kansa), 1929-1933. 5. Jim Thorpe (Sac and Fox). 6. Maria Tallchief (Osage), ballerina. 7. Major John Herrington (Chickasaw). For more information on the "Draw a Native Hero" contest, visit Blue Corn Comics (http://www.bluecorncomics.com/pr9.htm) or Canku Ota (http://www.turtletrack.org). Rob Schmidt Publisher PEACE PARTY http://www.bluecorncomics.com ============================================================ Do you need to get-away? Finance incredible vacations, interest free, to hundreds of destinations - $3,000 travel credit line with Guaranteed Approval! Vacations for as little as $18/Month! http://click.topica.com/caaajX9b1ddNBb2HgmNf/PlayersVacationClub ============================================================ Visit and show your support for the Grass Roots Oyate http://members.tripod.com/GrassRootsOyate Clemency for Leonard Peltier. Sign the Petition. http://petitiononline.com/Release/petition.html ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?b1ddNB.b2HgmN Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
