INDIANS IN JEOPARDY

Posted on February 18, 2010 - Filed Under Education | Leave a Comment

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLAYING INDIAN JEOPARDY:  Click on link under the picture.  It will open a new window with another link.  Click on the link to open up the “Indians In Jeopardy” game.  It will download to your computer so you can open it up.  Click on the category/points button.  Click on the page for the […]

HONOR INDIANS INSTITUTE: BACK FOR 2008!

Posted on January 7, 2008 - Filed Under Education | 1 Comment

Honor Indians Institute is happy to be back for 2008!  After an extended Christmas break, we look forward to continue the work that we started in September 2007.  In this short time period, we got our web site up and running, created “Alternative Indian Mascots,” “Alternative Indian Marketing,” “No Honor With Meth” and “Mascots that […]

HONORABLE MENTION: UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD

Posted on November 16, 2007 - Filed Under Honorable Mention, Education | Leave a Comment

Honor Indians Institute would like to honor Union Pacific Railroad, Native American Heritage group, for planning a month long celebration of Native American Heritage Month! This year’s theme is “The Hidden People – The Contributions of the Native American People in America.” Honor Indians Institute was proud to be a part of their activities….

CHEROKEE TRIBE REMOVES FREEDMEN FROM TRIBAL ROLLS

Posted on October 24, 2007 - Filed Under Education | Leave a Comment

Honor Indians Institute calls on the Cherokee Nation to do the honorable thing, and rescind their March 2007, vote to remove approximately 2,800 black descendants of Freedmen slaves from their tribal rolls.  At issue is whether an 1866 treaty granted Cherokee citizenship to freed black slaves.  The Freedmen descendants have challenged the vote, and the […]

TO: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN ATHLETE YOU ARE EITHER WITH US, OR AGAINST US

Posted on October 19, 2007 - Filed Under Education, Indian Mascots | Leave a Comment

Honor Indians Institute recently honored LeBron James for refusing to wear the racist Cleveland Indians cap at a recent playoff game in Cleveland. We also called upon him to join us in calling for education and hopefully change, leading to the elimination of Indian mascots. We now make that invitation to all African […]

HONORABLE MENTION: CONGRESSMAN JEFF FORTENBERRY

Posted on October 16, 2007 - Filed Under Honorable Mention, Education | Leave a Comment

Honor Indians Institute would like to honor Nebraska Congressman Jeff Fortenberry for his efforts to have Ponca Chief Standing Bear’s image placed on the new $1 Native American Coin. The Native American $1 Coin Act calls for the Sacagawea dollar coin to be redesigned….

HOW! Yes, this really happened

Posted on October 2, 2007 - Filed Under Education | Leave a Comment

I have been walking quite a bit lately in an effort to try ward off type 2 diabetes and lose a little weight. My route takes me through a nice middle class, mostly non-Indian (white) neighborhood. About two weeks ago, I […]

NEW STUDY FINDINGS VALIDATES THE MISSION AND OBJECTIVES

Posted on September 14, 2007 - Filed Under Education | Leave a Comment

 
The findings of a new study, released on August 29, 2007, by Public Agenda entitled “Walking a Mile: A First Step Toward Mutual Understanding,” http://www.publicagenda.org/WalkingaMile/ validates the experience, mission and objectives of Honor Indians Institute. The study finds:
1. Non-Indians know very little about Indians. What they know, or think they know, is based on generalizations […]