Yelkanum Seclamatan

Yelkanum Seclamatan (/jɛlˈkeɪnəm səˈklæmətən/ yel-KAY-nəm sə-KLAM-ə-tən; Nooksack: Y’elʔqáy’nem Selh’émeten [jˀəlʔˈqæjˀnəm səˈɬʼəməˌtən]; died April 1911), also known as Chief Jim, Indian Jim, Lynden Jim, or Squahalish Jim, was chief of the Nooksack Indians in the late 19th century. His first name has variously been spelled Yellakanim, Yallakanum, or Yellow Kanim, and his last name Seklameten or Seclamatum.

Life

Clara Tennant, one of Yelkanum's wives

Clara Tennant, one of Yelkanum's wives

In the late 1870s, Yelkanum contributed portions of his land to be used in the construction of a Nooksack Indian Methodist School by Clara and Rev. John Tennant (after whom Tennant Lake is named). In 1893 Tennant died of a stroke, and ten years later Yelkanum married his Lummi wife Clara Tennant. However, three months after their marriage Clara died of pneumonia.

Yelkanum's death was announced in The Bellingham Herald on April 27, 1911. At the time he lived with his granddaughter Emily Williams.

Jim Billie

James Edward Billie, known as “Chief Jim Billie” (born March 20, 1944) (Seminole) is a politician and Chairman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, elected by nearly 60 percent of the voters in 2011. He was elected to successive terms as Chairman/President of the Seminole Tribe of Florida (1979-2001), serving 22 years in the "longest tenure of any elected leader in the Western Hemisphere, other than Fidel Castro." He was impeached in 2001 because of financial issues related to sexual misconduct.

In 2005 Sarasota Magazine called Chief Billie “the most powerful American Indian leader of the past century.” He is best known for leading the tribe when it won a United States Supreme Court 1996 decision upholding the sovereign rights of tribes to conduct gaming on their reservations. In 1999, a song on his album, Alligator Tales,was nominated for a Grammy award.

Early life and education

Jim Billie was born in poverty at a camp in Dania, Florida near the Tamiami Trail. His mother Agnes Billie was Seminole of the Bird clan; his father was J.W. Barnett, a white sailor who went to Europe during World War II, never knowing that Agnes was pregnant. She named the boy Whookipee, meaning "He who has been taken away". Shortly after Billie's birth, Seminole medicine men intended to kill the infant because he was a half-breed, by leaving him to die in the Everglades; they strongly discouraged intermarriage with whites. His mother Agnes and Betty Mae Tiger, a young Snake clan woman, intervened and saved his life by threatening to report them to the reservation superintendent. (Tiger and her brother's lives had been threatened in the late 1920s when they were young, as their father was white.

Jim Hopper

James McDaniel Hopper (September 1, 1919 – January 23, 1982) was a professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher for one season (1946) with the Pittsburgh Pirates. For his career, he compiled an 0-1 record, with a 10.38 earned run average, and one strikeout in 4⅓ innings pitched.

He was born and later died in Charlotte, North Carolina at the age of 62.

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David Harbour

David Harbour (born April 10, 1974) is an American actor who has performed in film, television and in the theater.

Early life

Harbour went to Byram Hills High School in Armonk, New York along with other actors Sean Maher and Eyal Podell. He graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1997.

Career

Harbour got his professional start on Broadway in 1999 in the revival of The Rainmaker and made his television debut in 1999 in an episode of Law & Order ("Patsy"), playing a waiter. He appeared again in 2002 in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He played the recurring role of MI6 agent Roger Anderson in the ABC television series Pan Am. In 2005, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in a production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

He is known for his role as CIA agent Gregg Beam in Quantum of Solace, as Shep Campbell in Revolutionary Road, and as Russell Crowe's source in State of Play. He also received praise for his role as Paul Devildis on a 2009 episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. His other film credits include Brokeback Mountain, The Green Hornet, End of Watch and Between Us. In 2013, he played a small role of a head doctor in the American TV series based on the classic detective Sherlock Holmes, Elementary. He has also played the recurring role of Elliot Hirsch in The Newsroom since 2012.