Dr. Lehman Brightman-National President of United Native Americans,Inc, Will have a lecture/ discussion on the trials and tribulations we as First Nations People endured to implement Native American /Indigenous studies on the UC and CSU level.
When: Thursday October 8th 2009, 2:10pm-3:25pm.
Where: Cesar Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University.
For More Information Visit:
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Ethnic Studies 40 Years later. Race, Resistance and Relevance.
http://www.sfsu.edu/~ethnicst/fortieth.html
Please feel free to circulate it to interested parties and also this link below to the footage on our web site (which is now ready to view):
The TV Archive at SF State is a Tax-Exempt 501 (c) Organization and ALL CONTRABUTIONS TO THIS PROJECT ARE FULLY TAX DEDUCTABLE.
Harold Patty & Oohosis Wearing UNA "Indian Power" Buttons. Yet, Some People Whom Have Published These Picture's In Books Such as "You Are On Indian Land Alcatraz Island, 1969-1971 Edited By Troy R. Johnson, Seem To Over Look This. . . Why?
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Indian occupiers moments after the removal
from Alcatraz Island on June 11, 1971
James M. Fortier & Troy R. Johnson Are Much To Blame For Their So Called "well-researched" Documentary Titled Alcatraz is Not an Island. They Failed To Acknowledge The Picture's of UNA Members Clearly Wearing Their Bright Red "Indian Power" Buttons. They obviously Failed To Do Any Research Into Which Militant Indian Organization Had Their Members Present From Day One to The End of The Alcatraz Take Over. UNA Was The 1st Militant Indian Organization In The United States To Rise to National Prominence.
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Influences
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-lP44Azt4E
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November is American Indian Heritage Month!
KQED, The San Francisco Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services, Friendship
House Association of American Indians, and the Native American AIDS Project are proud to celebrate the rich culture of the American Indian community. Please join us at the San Francisco City Hall Rotunda for dancing, drumming and a special awards ceremony where we will honor five local heroes doing outstanding work in the American Indian community.
American Indian Heritage Month Celebration
Thursday, November 12, 2009
5pm - 7:30pm
San Francisco City Hall Rotunda
2009 Local Heroes
Gayle Burns
Native American AIDS Project
Mary Jean Robertson
Voices of the Native Nation- KPOO 89.5 FM
Ras K’dee
Seventh Native American Generation (SNAG), Audiopharmacy
Lehman Brightman
United Native Americans, Inc.
Cathy Chapman
Native American Health Center
KQED celebrates the diversity of the greater San Francisco Bay Area by commemorating November, American Indian Heritage Month. During the month of November, KQED schedules a special lineup of programs focused on American Indian themes and issues. These programs are highlighted in a guide along with listings of community resources and local events at: http://www.kqed.org/heritage.
Special thanks to the individuals in the photo: Edgar Santiago, Javen Thompson, Emiliano Antone, Lukas Aguilar, and Pierre American Bear-Halsey. Photo Credit: Well and Lau.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsrEDVNv-Hs
Order a DVD of The Entire Celebration Honoring American Indian Local Heros at email sfgtv@sfgov.org or call (415) 554-4188
Sounds Like
UNA Standing Up For The Great Charles Albert Bender To Be HONORED By Major League Baseball For Breaking The Color Barrior 44 Year's BEFORE Jackie Robinson Did.
"His Honoring Is Long Over Due. Major League Baseball Should Honor Him Like They Do Jackie Robinson For Breaking The Color Barrier For African Americans".
"It Just Goes to Show Everyone That Major League Baseball Discriminates Against Native Americans".
Lehman L. Brightman
Charles Albert Bender (May 5, 1884 – May 22, 1954) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball during the first two decades of the 20th century. He is also a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Charles Albert Bender was born in Crow Wing County, Minnesota as a member of the Ojibwa tribe - he faced discrimination throughout his career, not least of which was the stereotyped nickname ("Chief") by which he is almost exclusively known today.
Baseball career
After graduating from Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Bender went on to a stellar career as a starting pitcher from 1903 to 1917, primarily with Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics (though with stints at the end of his career with the Baltimore Terrapins of the short-lived Federal League, the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Chicago White Sox).
Over his career, his win-loss record was 212-127, for a .625 winning percentage (a category in which he would lead the American League in three seasons). His talent was even more noticeable in the high-pressure environment of the World Series: in five trips to the championship series, he managed six wins and a 2.44 ERA. In the 1911 Series, he pitched three complete games, which tied Christy Mathewson's record of three complete games in a World Series. He also threw a no-hitter in 1910.
Bender was well liked by his fellow players. Longtime roommate and fellow pitcher Rube Bressler called him "One of the kindest and finest men who ever lived." Ty Cobb called him the most intelligent pitcher he ever faced. Bender was also known as one of the best sign-stealers of his time; Mack often put this skill to use by occasionally using him as the third-base coach on days he wasn't scheduled to pitch.
He was greatly respected for his quiet demeanor, and was well known for handling racial taunts gracefully. When fans heckled him or greeted him with war whoops on the field, he would answer them by cupping his hands around his mouth and shouting, "Foreigners! Foreigners!"
When the upstart Federal League offered him a significant increase in salary, Mack knew he couldn't hope to match it and released him. However, Bender went 4-16 for the Terrapins, and later regretted leaving Philadelphia.
After two years with the Phillies, he left baseball in 1918 to work in the shipyards during World War I. He came back to coach for the Chicago White Sox and even made a cameo appearance on the mound in 1925. But his heart remained tied to Philadelphia. Mack kept him on the Athletics' payroll as a scout, minor league manager or coach from 1926 until Mack retired at the end of the 1950 season.
Bender was voted into the Hall of Fame in 1953, less than one year before his death. In 1981, Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included him in their book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time.
The Slider
The innovator of the slider is debated, but some credit Bender as the first to use the slider, then called a "nickel change", in the 1910s. Bender used his slider to help him achieve a no-hitter and win 212 games in his career.
United Native Americans, Inc. (or U.N.A.) was formed in 1968 in San Francisco, California to promote the General Welfare of Native Americans. There are no paid staff or officers in U.N.A. and all work is donated. U.N.A. is not funded and exists solely on the support derived from membership dues, the sale of U.N.A. Merchandise, Tee Shirts, buttons, bumper stickers, and Posters, plus the few donations that have been received.
U.N.A was founded by Indians for Indians and is controlled by Indians.
U.N.A. has been Labeled a "Militant" organization because of it's Aggressive Stand it has taken and because of the slogan it stresses--"INDIAN POWER", which is defined as Self-Determination, the Right to Run your Own Affairs and to Direct your Own Destiny, which is something Indian People Definitely Need. U.N.A is Definitely an Action Organization and if this means "Militant" then we are Militants. We as Native Americans, in order to perpetuate our Heritage, Exercise Constructive Leadership, and to perfect a Native American Organization which will Respond to the Needs of Native Americans.
U.N.A. Strives to Improve Indian Image.
U.N.A. has been one of the Strongest advocates to improve the "Negative" image of Indian People, and has been critical of the "Movie Industry" for their Exploitation of Indians, and the Stereotype they have created of the "drunken, inarticulate, savage." Academic Revolutionary; Lehman Brightman Founded & Coordinated The First Native Americans Studies Program in The United States at UC Berkeley.
U.N.A. Testifies In Congress.
In 1968, Senate Sub-Committee Hearings on Indian Education held in Washington D.C., U.N.A. National President, Lehman L. Brightman gave some very damaging evidence against the Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding schools and their policy of taking young Indian children way from their parents and placing them in 'off-reservation" boarding schools, thousands of miles away from their homes. Mr. Brightman called Indian Education under the Bureau of Indian Affairs a "National Disgrace."
U.N.A. Investigates Indian Boarding Schools.
U.N.A. has tried to act as a "watch dog" over the governmental agencies that control Indian affairs, and has been extremely critical of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the U.S. Public Health Service for their lack of Aid and callous treatment of Indian people. Since 1968, U.N.A. has investigated four of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Boarding Schools because of complaints of "brutality, - lack of food, -overcrowded living quarters, and to find out why these four high schools were not state accredited." The four government boarding schools investigated by U.N.A. were: Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, --Stewart Institute in Carson City, Nevada, -- Pierre Indian School in Pierre, South Dakota and Phoenix Indian School in Phoenix, Arizona."
U.N.A. Investigates Indian Hospitals.
Due to other complaints by Indian people of "poor medical service and other wrong doings," U.N.A. investigated two Indian hospitals run by the U.S. Public Health Service and exposed the "outrageous practices" to the public and Federal Authorities. The Hospitals investigated by U.N.A. were: Phoenix Indian Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona and the Indian Hospital on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in Eagle Butte, South Dakota.
Services Provided by U.N.A.
The duties and services provided by U.N.A. are many and varied. U.N.A. provides the security of knowing that someone cares and will go to bat for them when all others won't. We fully realize that Indian people alone cannot rise out of this pit of poverty and neglect and it will take the combined efforts of Indians and Sympathetic non-Indians. For this reason U.N.A. accepts non-Indians as associate members who desire to help and their "expertise" in the fields of 'Law", Education, Medicine, etc, can be put to good use.
We as Native Americans, in order to perpetuate our Heritage, Exercise Constructive Leadership, and to perfect a Native American Organization which will Respond to the Needs of Native American. The Purpose of United Native Americans, Inc. Shall be:
(1) To Actively Participate in Promoting the Health, Education and Welfare of All Native Americans.
(2) To Encourage and Develop Leadership among Native American People.
(3) To Promote Cooperation among Native Americans and their Organizations.
(4) To Focus Public Attention upon those areas in which Injustices to Native Americans can be Fully Recognized and Corrected.
(5) To Encourage and perpetuate the Native American Heritage with it's individual Tribal Customs and Traditions.
(6) To Eliminate Prejudice and Discrimination Against Native Americans.
(7) To Promote the General Welfare of All Native Americans.
United Native Americans,Inc.
Lehman L. Brightman: National President
2434 Faria Ave
Pinole, California 94564
Unitednativeamericansinc@gmail.com
(510)672-7187 or (510)837-0074
United Native Americans, Inc.
Lehman L. Brightman: National President
2434 Faria Ave
Pinole, California 94564
Unitednativeamericansinc@gmail.com
(510)672-7187 or (510)837-0074
What: Free Screening of Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier' w/special guest Ben Carnes
Where: 111 North Central Ave., downtown Los Angeles, 90012 (directly across from the Japanese American National Museum)
when: December 17th at 6:30pm
On Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 6:30pm we will have a free feature screening of 'Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier' with special guest speaker Ben Carnes of the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee. We will also have a community potluck (please bring a dish) and raffle.
Bringing the Circle Together: A Native American Film Series is a FREE monthly film series located at the National Center for Preservation of Democracy (directly across from the host sponsor The Japanese American National Museum) at 111 North Central Ave, in downtown Los Angeles, 90012.
The film series was established to provide quality documentaries by and about Indigenous cultures of the Americas, and bring together a central gathering place where discussion and awareness of issues can be shared with the Native community and its supporters.
A little about the film: The shocking, true story of Leonard Peltier, the American Indian leader locked away for life, convicted of the alleged murder of two FBI agents during a bloody shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975. Around the world his trial and conviction have been denounced as a sham. The heart of the film, is a detailed painstaking account of Peltier's harrowing odyssey through the American justice system.
The film series is hosted by Lorin Morgan-Richards and is sponsored by the following organizations: The Japanese American National Museum
American Indian Community Council
Hecho de Mano
Nahui Ohlin
SCIC-InterTribal Entertainment
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hello and thank you to have accepted me in your friends. I am French, I like much the First Nations, the respect for the ground and all that it contains. I hope that our friendship will last a long time. Good week end has you and your family. Fbrice
I am glad you are here. Thank you for all you share here. I have a new video with words and some of the art by Eric Valle, and music by me, with Eric Baldoni.
When we first brought her home.. she had chewed most of her front leg to shreds... her name is Karma... now she looks like princess Karma. What a smile... I think she likes her new crown. Her leg... almost healed and Her heart too.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wd1uLgV7mc
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