Deadly FUN -- young actor playing Indians dies during performance
February 25, 1909 The Caucasian, Feb 25, 1909
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DEADLY FUN - 8-year-old is show and killed while playing "cowboy and Indian."
February 21, 1925 The Lincoln Star, Feb 22, 1925 Click below for article about a thrilling epic film that was shown this same year. All hail the thrilling film about the wild savage Indians who are blood-thirsty for revenge. I wonder how many children will soon be acting these scenes out. The Chillicothe Tribune, Aug 14, 1925 So, if a child were to "play Indian" - what would they act out????
DEADLY FUN -- boy died playing cowboy and Indians
2013, Feb 20 - Nine-year-old boy 'strangled himself on his dressing gown cord while playing Cowboys and Indians in his bedroom'. Connar Kiedyk was found hanged in his room in Grimsby, Lincolnshire. ... An inquest at Cleethorpes Town Hall, Lincolnshire, heard how Connar's sister had been sent upstairs to ask her brother to sign a form as part of a change to his family's doctors surgery when she found him hanged. She ran downstairs and told her mother Ursula Kiedyk that Connar might have 'done something very stupid.'... The inquest heard how Connar had been upstairs playing his favourite Cowboys and Indians game using his toy soldiers when he became caught on his bunk bed.
Feb 19, 1942 - Franklin Roosevelt signed order to imprison 110,000 Japenese - with Indians
Arizona_Republic_Sun__Feb_4__1945_ (1) An Internment Camp Within an Internment Camp By FRANK MASTROPOLO Feb. 19, 2008 SHARE Email For Japanese-Americans, Feb. 19 marks the Day of Remembrance. That's the day in 1942 when President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 and put into motion the government's forced removal and imprisonment of more than 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry — 60 percent of whom were American citizens. Military officials considered anyone of Japanese descent, whether a U.S. citizen or not, to be a potential spy and a security risk. With little notice, Japanese were gathered up and ordered to leave their homes, businesses and friends to be incarcerated without trial. They could only take what they could carry and were moved to 10 internment camps spread across some of the nation's most inhospitable terrains. In "Passing Poston: An American Story," a documentary premiering this month, filmmakers Joe Fox and James Nubile disclose ...
February 16, 1989 - Elizabeth Peratrovich Day (first civil rights bill - alaska)
Daily_Sitka_Sentinel_Tue__Jan_19__1993_ Daily_Sitka_Sentinel_Wed__Feb_14__1996_ (1) "Daily_Sitka_Sentinel_Fri__Feb_12__1993_" "Daily_Sitka_Sentinel_Fri__Feb_15__1991_ (1)" Daily_Sitka_Sentinel_Wed__Feb_14__1996_ "Daily_Sitka_Sentinel_Thu__Feb_16__1995_ (1)" "Daily_Sitka_Sentinel_Thu__Feb_16__1995_ (2)" Elizabeth Peratrovich From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Elizabeth Peratrovich Elizabeth Peratrovich.jpg Born July 4, 1911 Petersburg, Alaska Died December 1, 1958 (aged 47) Seattle, Washington Other names Kaaxgal.aat Spouse(s) Roy Peratrovich (1908–1989, m. 1931) Children Roy Peratrovich, Jr. (b. 1934) Frank Allen Peratrovich (1937–2010) Loretta Marie Montgomery (1940–2010) Parent(s) Andrew and Mary Wanamaker Elizabeth Jean Peratrovich (/ˈprætÉ™vɪtʃ/; née Wanamaker; July 4, 1911 – December 1, 1958), Tlingit nation, was an important civil rights activist; she worked on behalf of equality for Alaska Natives. In the 1940s, she was credited ...