The year marked 1876, and the Canadian government had just passed the Indian Act, a way of comprehending native identity. This act focuses on Indian status, Indian reserves, and bands. The laws within this act have been extremely controversial, as it allows Canadian government to manage the lives, and communities of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. The governments control was able to place Indians in predetermined areas, known as reservations, as well as limit the practice of Native American ethics, culture, and tradition, by the creation of tribal band councils. Perhaps the most widely recognized part of the Indian act, allows councils to define who is able to qualify for Indian status.…
Sirhan Sirhan Did He Do It Khari K. Campbell Penta Career Center Sirhan Sirhan Did He Do It Senator Kennedy died on June 6, 1968, one day after the shooting at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where he had been celebrating victory in the California primary of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. He had just delivered his victory address in the ballroom and was taking a shortcut out of the hotel through the crowded kitchen when Sirhan stepped forward and opened fire. (Goddard, 2011) Robert Kennedy was the most seriously wounded of the six people shot inside the hotel pantry on June 5, 1968, only moments after the New York senator had claimed victory in California's Democratic primary election. The presidential candidate died the next day; the other victims survived.(Martinez, 2012) After the speech, Schrade was walking six to eight feet behind Kennedy through a…
Dekanawidah Born to a nation in Hurons, know present day Ontario, Canada, Dekanawidah knew he was distended to accomplished great thing in life from an early age at life. His mother had a dream about baby boy she would have named Dekanawidah and he would grow up to something great. When he was born, his mother was instructed by his grandmother to drown the child in the river since he was born to a virgin mother who refused to tell her mother who the father, creating bad luck for the nation. “You must tell me the father of this child, if you won’t, you’ll bring bad luck to this nation. You must go drown him now!”…
Mālama ʻĀina O Kaho’olawe Kaho’olawe is an island that was illegally taken over by the U.S Military. It was later returned to the people of Hawaii in horrible condition. Walter Rite, chairman of the Kaho’olawe Island Reserve Commission states, “It was the island that shared herself with us. It was the island that told me, ‘Hey I’m dying,’ so, after that one trip it was a total commitment not to allow the island to die.” (Pang Y.B.)…
Battle of Mogadishu The Battle of Mogadishu, also known as Black Hawk Down took place on the 3rd and 4th of October 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia. What was supposed to be an in and out mission capturing General Mohamed Farrah Aidid which should have taken only a couple of hours at most, turned into a daylong nightmare for the 3rd Battalion of the 75th Ranger Regiment, and the 1st Special Forces Detachment-Delta. Throughout the 1980 and 1990 violence in Somalia was rising.…
Have you ever wondered how much Indian's have done for America? Two-hundred years ago Sacajawea, a young Shoshone Indian girl found her place in America's history by stepping out of her comfort zone and doing something extraordinary. When faced with trials, like her kidnapping and forced marriage, she rose to the challenge and stay strong in spirit. With her baby on her back she accompanied Louis and Clark on an intriguing and dangerous journey across the American Northwest. When the men were on the brink of starvation, she found food.…
Athletics have been a big part of the Saint Saviour community for many years. With the help of their coaches, students develop their athletic skills and achieve great success. As we get closer to saying goodbye to our talented senior athletes, here are three of the many who exemplify sportsmanship, hard work, and school team spirit. Sofia Rapisarda is a talented and competitive tennis player who strives to be her best. When she first picked up a tennis racket seven years ago, she fell in love with the sport and cultivated a strong ambition to succeed.…
Witnessing firsthand the struggle of immigrants wanting to live the American dream suffering from domestic violence herself Dolores Janney Rivera Saavedra artistically known as “Jenni Rivera” or “La Diva De La Banda”. Though known for her extraordinary talent jenni changed the way the way society looks at the Banda/norteno/corrido genre by starting from the bottom and making her way to the top. Dominating her musical careers and in her music speaking for the women who do not have a voice, telling about her struggles to be able to get to the top and how anyone can overcome these same struggles as well. Overcoming her struggles made her the unbreakable women everyone knows that falls and gets up every single time. Jenni Rivera born July 2, 1969- December 9, 2012 “…
There comes a time in life when a new human being is being born. It does not matter where he or she is being born, all what matters is that there is a new living creature in the world. On July 22nd, 1997, a new girl was born to Mr. Richard Kusi Appiah and Mrs. Kate Andoh Wilson in a very small town called Santasi located in the heart of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana in West Africa. Mr. Kusi Appiah was a college student at that time while Mrs. Wilson was a food seller in Santasi. Life was not very easy for Mrs. Wilson as she had to raise her daughter as a single parent because Mr. Kusi Appiah had moved to the United States of America.…
SUNA, otherwise known as "Short-lasting Unilateral Neuralgiform Headache Attacks", is often common in men after the age of 50 years old. This disorder is marked by stabs of moderate to severe throbbing, burning, or piercing pain usually surrounding one side of the head, located explicitly around the eye or temple. The stabbing pain usually peaks through within seconds of the onset and may follow a pattern of increasing and decreasing pain intensity. The SUNA Attacks can usually last up to 4-5 seconds or more. The affected individual can have up to five to six attacks per hour.…
The owner also told Nidhi that rednecks that do not like other races may drive by and yell inappropriate things. She said that was the only true time that she felt unsafe and uncomfortable. Nidhi moved on from Michigan State University and put the experiences of discrimination that she spoke of behind her. After completing med school in Antigua, Nidhi is currently at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute in Baltimore, MD performing clinical research.…
Najmuddeen Abdus Salaam, age 46, seemed like the ideal person to mentor inmates at the Marion Correctional Institution; he was a former who held master’s degree in human behavior. A spokesperson the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said that they contracted with Salaam's Win-Win Institute to work with inmates. The spokesperson said that there was also a second contract with Salaam’s Prison News Network. According to a The Columbus Dispatch article, a highway patrol officer stopped Salaam for speeding on May 15th as he was driving along Route 23 in Delaware County.…
In all my years of education, no teacher has inspired me in a subject as much as Mr. Karmali, my calculus teacher in my senior year of high school. Mehebub S. Karmali, was a old asian-indian, in his mid sixties, who was proud to be teaching high school students the concepts of calculus. At the beginning of the year, I thought that he would be my worst nightmare from how my sister, and my upperclassmen friends talked about him. However, at the end of the year, I realized he was the complete opposite, he was the most dedicated teacher in the entire school. He was not just being strict, giving hard tests, or giving terrible grades because he wanted to be mean, he was passionate about the subject, and was dedicated to teach the students.…
On Saturday the fifteenth, my father and I went to an Indian vegetarian Street food restaurant, at 7:00pm for dinner. The restaurant is called Neehee’s, which is on the corner of Canton Center and Ford Rd, in the same plaza as Big B Coffee and Canton Pita. My father has several friends that like to go out and try ethnic foods from different restaurants in the metro Detroit area, when my father asked if there was anything worth trying in canton Neehee’s was the first one they mentioned. The food was very good, I got Paneer, Corn and Garlic.…
"Sungjae is a South Korean singer, actor and TV host. He is one of the members of the popular K-pop group BtoB. " "Sungjae is born on May 2, 1995 and is currently 21 years old. His zodiac sign is Taurus. "…