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Resources: 13 listings
- Dr. Zviad K. Gamsakhurdia (1939-1993)
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- The Memorial Page of the first President of the Republic of Georgia, Dr. Zviad K. Gamsakhurdia (1939-1993).
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- More sites on www.geocities.com
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- Frank B. (Wamsutta) James 1923-2001
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Wampanoag |
US - Northeast |
- Frank B. (Wamsutta) James, an Aquinnah Wampanoag elder and Native American activist, died February 20, 2001 at the age of 77. James first came to
national attention in 1970 when he, with hundreds of other Native Americans and their supporters, went to Plymouth and declared Thanksgiving day a
National Day of Mourning for Native Americans.
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- John Mohawk, beloved man of wisdom, passes on (2006)
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Seneca |
US - Northeast |
- BUFFALO, N.Y. - Indian country lost a major luminary with the recent passing of Sotsisowah, the Seneca author and traditionalist known in the broader society as John Mohawk, Ph.D.
Mohawk, 61, was pronounced dead at his home in Buffalo on Dec. 12. He is mourned by large numbers of people, expressing the most heartfelt condolences to the family and close relatives of this beloved man of wisdom. Indian Country Today article: http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096414178
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- More sites on www.indiancountry.com
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- Maria
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Sioux |
US - Central |
- Maria Darlene "Running Moccasins" Pearson, twice nominee for the Noble Peace Prize and Indian Rights Activist, passed away at 8:20 p.m. on Saturday, May 24 at Mary Greeley Hospital in Ames, Iowa. A Yankton Sioux, Mrs. Pearson was born in Springfield, South Dakota on July12, 1932. She was a recognized tribal elder, a position of high regard and equally high responsibility among her people.
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Memorial Poem for Roberta Blackgoat
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Navajo |
US - Southwest |
- by Nokwisa Yona, titled "Honoring
Roberta"
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- More sites on www.twofrog.com
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- Michael Two Horses, 1953-2003
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Dakota |
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- Mr. Two Horses will be remembered for his exhaustively brilliant research and writing and his passionately honest dedication to human rights, particularly with respect to American Indian treaty rights, spiritual rights, and cultural rights.
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Nancy Cannon : Beloved Woman of the Four Winds
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Tsalagi |
US - Southeast |
- Nancy "Elisa" Cannon will be remember by her clan on the Ripe Corn Moon August 27, 2003 with prayer, pipe and feasting. There will be no burial. At Elisa's request, her ashes will be sent to her beloved Sydney's bluff in Ashland City TN. All others are asked to observe her passing with ritual and song and loving thoughts.
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- Role Model For American Indian Artists Dies
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Cherokee |
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- Lloyd Kiva New, who helped found the Institute of American Indian Arts where he pushed students from the traditional into the contemporary arts, died Friday. He was 85.
"No one could deny his importance as a role model, as a symbol of what we could become," said painter Fritz Scholder "His manner was so dignified, He was a person everyone could respect, and we all did."
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- More sites on www.imdiversity.com
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- Slow Turtle (1930 - 1997)
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Wampanoag |
US - Northeast |
- poem by Bob Doyle describing ceremony in which Slow Turtle's ashes were put to sea, November 1, 1997.
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Slow Turtle - Obituary
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Wampanoag |
US - Northeast |
- from the Associated Press, October 29, 1997
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- More sites on www.nativeweb.org
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- Standing Deer Wilson has crossed over
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Oneida |
US - Central |
- On Monday morning, January 21, 2003, Robert Standing Deer was murdered in Houston, Texas.
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- More sites on www.angelfire.com
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- Unofficial Dr. John R. Williams Memorial Website
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Lakota |
US - Central |
- Dedication page to deceased lakota, educated, korean conflict veteran.
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- More sites on www.geocities.com
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- Walt Bresette, 1948 - 1999
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Anishinaabe |
US - Central |
- "He was like the north star," a friend says, " He held up the sky over northern Wisconsin and the people followed him."
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- More sites on www.alphacdc.com
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