United Native America was formed in 1993 as a nation wide grass roots movement to bring about a federal national holiday for Native Americans.

The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma fully supports this issue with resolution 91-93. United Native America resolution 1-1 calls on the federal government to stop using our tax dollars to pay for Columbus Day. Columbus does not rate a federal tax paid holiday in this country.

We are standing up against the racial exclusion of Native Americans in our society to include these industries, national television stations, movie industries, national sports industries, national news media and music industries. Bringing about these changes have to take place before America can say it represents all its people equally.

The American Indians helped give birth to this country and helped form the government we have today, this is the true beginning history of America. This contribution and many more are noted in the American Indian heritage month of November resolution passed each year by the United States Senate and signed by the president, please join us in the struggle in the spirit of Crazy Horse, Tecumseh and countless others to live in peace on our land.

To:  All people of the world

Congress of the United States
Senate of the United States
President of the United States


We the undersigned come together before you to request that each of these governing bodies take all necessary action to bring about a Federal Holiday for Native American Elected Leaders, To include Congressional hearings on the racial exclusion of Native Americans in movies,television,sports advertising,music companies,etc.

With the special government to government relationship between the Indian Government of America and the Federal Government it is fitting for the Federal Government to enact this holiday, and conduct Congressional hearings.

Indian governments and the people they represent our requesting that the federal government bring about a National Holiday for Native Americans to be celebrated by all citizens of America and people around the world.

This holiday would pay tribute to Indian tribal leaders to include Alaskan Nation leaders, Hawaiian Nation leaders and Taino Nation leaders of Puerto Rico (All US territory tribal Nation leaders indigenous to that land). This holiday also should pay tribute to those that endured the worlds longest holocaust and most costly in human lives.

It is further stated that no Indian Government nor its people find reason to celebrate and pay for Columbus Day. Seventeen states do not recognize Columbus Day. The state of South Dakota has changed Columbus day to Native American Day.

Therefore be it resolved that the Federal Government should reevaluate Columbus Day by moving it back to its original day the second Wednesday of October and not be a tax paid holiday as is St. Patrick's Day and Octoberfest, and make the second Monday of October a Federal holiday for Native Americans.

The polls we conducted across the country show that the vast majority of Americans prefer changing Columbus Day as to creating a whole new holiday.

It is inappropriate for Indian children and children of America to celebrate Columbus discovering a nation of people and not having a holiday paying tribute to the people of those nations.

Sincerely,
The Undersigned

Entrepreneurial sector is key to Indian country development

In the series, "Pine Ridge Revival," we meet people like Angie and Jesse Reyes, whose Kyle, S.D. restaurant is a success due to planning, hard work and a little help from new reservation initiatives that made it possible to obtain financing when needed. We meet people like Mona "Sissy" Patton, whose Lil’ Angels convenience store now employs up to 54 full- and part-time employees. Patton has led the way in community improvement projects such as sidewalks for the elderly and was instrumental in the community obtaining two fire trucks for its volunteer fire department. We meet people like Jesse Clausen, who returned to the reservation four years ago and used his own investment to start up a construction business. Clausen employs some 20 people regularly, who learn business and construction skills. Clausen is keen to encourage the virtues of sobriety..
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Black Indians: An American Story

“Black Indians: An American Story,” explores the issue of racial identity among Black African Americans and Native American Indians. This in-depth documentary examines the coalescence of these two groups in American history. Discounted, and often ignored by mainstream America, these minority peoples have often shared a common past. However, with their heritage ignored and their contributions denied they are all but invisible at the dawn of the new millennium.

Statesman Frederick Douglass, poet Langston Hughes, singer Tina Turner, actor James Earl Jones and civil rights leader Jesse Jackson all have this blended Black Indian ancestry.

The hour-long documentary, which is narrated by the velvet voice of James Earl Jones, is garnering critical acclaim and playing to packed audiences at film festivals around the country. Several of the nation's top have shown the film, which won a Nammy recognizing the best in American Indian entertainment. VHS - Running Time 60 minutes Watch A Preview

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Thunder Bird Sisters are the 'Benefit Sisters'

SOUTHAMPTON, LONG ISLAND, N.Y. - With a new CD and a national television appearance coming up in mid-March, and a Nammy award on the wall, the Thunderbird Sisters are making their voice heard. Listen to thier music here!

But they say they haven't exactly been silent in the more than 25 years this group of cousins from the Shinnecock reservation near the eastern end of Long Island has been together. They've made frequent appearances at benefits and rallies and even led their own local protests. They look at their growing fame from the perspective of a generation of activism.

Becky Genia remembers the exciting news from Wounded Knee as the reason the Thunder Bird Sisters began singing. She was growing up with her close-knit cousins, Tina and Holly, in 1973 when the teen-agers heard about the events more than 1,500 miles away on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.

The three, Valdez-Genia, Tina Tarrant and Holly Haile Davis, are granddaughters of Henry F. Bess, Chief Thunder Bird, ceremonial leader of the Shinnecock tribe's postwar cultural revival.
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