Speech:

Shall We Repeat Indian History in Alaska?

Speaker:

Ruth Muskrat Bronson

1941 - 1960 / American Indian Justice
Ruth Muskrat Bronson was born in 1897 as a member of the Cherokee Nation. Bronson described her hometown as “a little place called Whitewater, in Oklahoma, no town, just a lovely little stream out in the hills.” Bronson spent her early years at Cowskin Prairie, Oklahoma, where she lived with her parents James Muskrat and…  Read more.
Simon Pokagon
Speech:

The Red Man’s Greeting

Speaker:

Simon Pokagon

1700 - 1899 / American Indian Justice
Simon Pokagon was born in 1830 at the height of Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act. He also lived through the General Allotment Era (1890s-1910s), when settler-colonizers continued to reduce the land of already diminished American Indian reservations.  Read more.
George Gillette Signs
Speech:

The Garrison Dam Agreement Signing

Speaker:

George Gillette

1941 - 1960 / American Indian Justice
George Gillette was born October 29, 1902, on the Fort Berthold Reservation. He attended Bismarck Indian School and Flandreau Indian School in South Dakota, as well as the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, where he studied carpentry. After graduating in 1926, he married Evelyn Wilkinson in 1930. They raised nine children at the Beaver Creek…  Read more.