Indian Forum: BLAZING NEW TRAILS IS GOAL
FORT LEE EVENT CELEBRATES AMERICAN INDIANS' HERITAGE
During a recent visit to Fort Lee to kick off the post's celebration of Native American Month, Thomasina Jordan said she could have focused on past injustices to Indians. But she chose to deliver a positive message."I could have taken you down the Trail of Tears again," she said after a speech to about 300 people at the post theater last Tuesday. ' ' But we've got a trail right now that we have to blaze. We have...
Indian Forum: DONATED COMPRESSOR ASSISTS LOCAL AGENCY
Sullair Corp. of Michigan City recently donated a 25-horsepower stationary air compressor to Opportunity Enterprises Inc. of Valparaiso.The machine will be used for the organization's pallet manufacturing, nail-sorting and packaging operations and for powering air tools in its maintenance shop. Opportunity Enterprises provides employment opportunities for people with disabilities in Porter County.Sullair, a subsidiary of Sundstrand Corp., is a manufacturer of stationary...
Indian Forum: Urban Indians' Plight Topic of Forum in OC
OKLAHOMA CITY - Urban Indians are the "most disadvantaged and discriminated-against minority" in the United States, and Tulsa has more of them than any city except Los Angeles, said organizers of the country's first urban Indian forum, which met Wednesday in the state Capitol.Half of all U.S. Indians live in cities, but they are virtually ignored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other federal agencies charged with serving them, said forum organizer...
Indian Forum: INDIAN LEADER IN STATE DIES
THOMASINA JORDAN WAS RIGHTS ACTIVIST
Dr. Thomasina "Red Hawk Woman" Jordan, a civil rights activist and a spiritual leader for Virginia's American Indians, died Sunday in Alexandria Hospital after a long battle with cancer.Some 200 miles away, at a Monacan Indian Nation gathering at Elon in Amherst County, two eagle feathers fell from a dancer's regalia at 3 p.m., the time of her death. One fallen feather, Indians said, symbolizes the death of a great person; two feathers...
