as an advocate for peace with whites and a mediator with the United
States. He was a renowned orator and one of the first Mohave to speak
English. He became the Mohave Nation's Aha macave yaltanack, an elected,
as opposed to hereditary, leader. As a result of his many interactions
with US officials and settlers, Irataba was invited to Washington, D.C.,
in 1864 for an official meeting with members of the US military and
government, including President Abraham Lincoln. He was the first Native
American from the Southwest to meet an American president. Upon his
return he negotiated the creation of the Colorado River Indian
Reservation, which caused a split in the Mohave Nation when he led
several hundred of his supporters to the Colorado River valley. Some
historians consider Irataba a great leader who championed peace, but
others feel he could have done more to defend the Mohave way of life. In
March 2015, Mohave Tribal chairman Dennis Patch credited Irataba with
ensuring that "the Mohaves stayed on land they had lived on since time
immemorial." (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irataba>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1795:
The United States signed the Treaty of Greenville with the
Western Confederacy coalition of Native Americans, ending the Northwest
Indian War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Greenville>
1916:
Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement was hanged at London's
Pentonville Prison for treason for his role in the Easter Rising, a
rebellion to win Irish independence from Britain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Casement>
1940:
World War II: Italy began their invasion of British Somaliland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_conquest_of_British_Somaliland>
1960:
Niger officially gained independence from France as part of the
decolonization of the French Community.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger>
2005:
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Mayor of Tehran, began his term
as the sixth President of Iran.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
compunction:
A pricking of conscience or a feeling of regret, especially one which is
slight or fleeting.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compunction>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Nothing to be done.
--Samuel Beckett
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett>
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