Wallace "Mad Bear" Anderson (November 9, 1927 – December 10, 1985) was a Tuscarora activist predominantly active in the 1950s who became a spokesman for tribal sovereignty. As a child, Anderson received the nickname "Mad Bear" from his grandmother...
The Great Law of Peace, also known as Gayanashagowa, is the oral constitution of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, established circa 1102 CE among the Five Nations of the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca. Conceived by Dekanawidah, known as...
A list of people who are from or have lived in Lewiston, New York (including: The Village of Lewiston, Lewiston Heights, the Tuscarora Reservation, Pekin, and Colonial Village). Individuals are listed in alphabetical order by last name in each...
The Great Peacemaker, sometimes referred to by his name Deganawida, was an Indigenous prophet and founder of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (or Iroquois League) according to Haudenosaunee oral tradition. Along with Jigonhsasee and Hiawatha, he was a...
The Tuscarora (Tuscarora: Skarù·ręʔ) are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands in Canada and the United States. They are an Iroquoian people, recognized as a Native American tribe in the United States and as a First Nations people in...
The Tuscarora Nation (Tuscarora: Skarù·ręʔ Kayedá·kreh), previously named the Tuscarora Nation of New York, is a federally recognized tribe of Tuscarora people. The tribe's headquarters is located on the Tuscarora Reservation in Lewiston, New York,...
The American Indian Movement (AIM) is an American Indian grassroots movement founded in Minneapolis in July 1968. Initially centered in urban areas to address systemic issues of poverty, discrimination, and police brutality against American Indians,...
Tax resistance in the United States has been practiced at least since colonial times, and has played important parts in American history. Tax resistance is the refusal to pay a tax, usually by means that bypass established legal norms, as a means of...
French filmmaker. Bror With, 85, Norwegian mechanical engineer. Wallace "Mad Bear" Anderson, 58, American Tuscarora activist. Leslie Bonnet, 83, British
The Indian Wars is the name used by the United States government to describe a series of military conflicts between the United States and Indigenous peoples from 1776 to 1898.
