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Native American activist and Omaha-people elder

Nathan Phillips
Heaven Man[ane]
Play media Phillips in 2012
Built-in	(1954-02-22) February 22, 1954 (age 68) [two] Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.
Nationality	Native American, Omaha people
Other names	Nathaniel R. Stanard[3]
Occupation	Activist

Nathan Phillips (built-in Feb 22, 1954), also known as Sky Man, is an Omaha Native American political activist known for his part in the January 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation in Washington, D.C.

Early life [edit]

Phillips was born in Lincoln, Nebraska,^[iv] where he spent his first five years in a traditional Omaha Nation tribal home.^{[5] [4]} From about the age of five, when he was separated from his mother, he was raised in a white foster family unit.^[6] He went to Lincoln Southeast High Schoolhouse.^[7] He later moved to Washington, D.C.^[8]

Phillips entered the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves on May twenty, 1972.^[3] During his time in the war machine, he was trained every bit an anti-tank missileman and then served on active duty as a refrigerator technician in Nebraska and California; he was shown as absent-minded without leave iii times. He was not deployed to Vietnam or anywhere overseas.^{[three] [ix] [x]} On May 5, 1976, Phillips was discharged as an E-1 individual following disciplinary issues.^[11]

Activism [edit]

Phillips (correct) at the 2017 Native Nations Rise March

At the end of the 20th century, Phillips was working to create a foster care system run by American Indians for American Indian children to assist them gain an appreciation for their heritage: "I don't want our children to think that prison is the only place for them to become."^[7]

The New York Times identified Phillips as a quondam manager of the Native Youth Alliance, a group aiming to uphold traditional culture and spiritual means for futurity Native Americans,^[12] and reported that he leads an almanac ceremony honoring Native American war veterans in Arlington National Cemetery.^[12]

The Guardian called him "a well-known Native American activist who was amongst those leading the Standing Rock protests in 2016 and 2017 against the structure of an oil pipeline in N Dakota".^{[13] [xiv]} Phillips was among the last of the protesters when law enforcement evicted the camps and effectively ended the protests, which for his part were "a prayer (...) a delivery to correspond our youth, for our children, for nature and for myself, standing for my nation."^[15]

In 2015 Phillips alleged a group of students from Eastern Michigan University harassed him.^{[16] [Notes one]} A January 2019 commodity in The Washington Mail service described Phillips as a "a veteran in the indigenous rights movement".^[17]

A January 2019 article in Indian State Today described Phillips as a "keeper of a sacred pipe".^{[18] [17]}

Betwixt Earth and Sky [edit]

Phillips is the subject area of the award-winning 2013 documentary film Between Earth and Sky in which he and his wife, Shoshana, travel back to his Omaha reservation afterward his wife was diagnosed with bone-marrow cancer. She died of the illness in 2014.^{[xix] [20] [21] [22]}

"Brand It Bun Dem" video [edit]

In 2012, Phillips and his son appeared in the music video for "Make It Bun Dem", a song by Skrillex and Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley.^[23] In a February 20, 2017, interview that took identify during the Dakota Admission Pipeline protests (DAPL), Phillips explained he had answered the casting phone call considering he wanted to assist his children cope with his wife's cancer.^[24]

Lincoln Memorial confrontation [edit]

On Jan 18, 2019, snippets of videos recorded at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., appeared to show Phillips being harassed by a group of 50 to 60 loftier schoolhouse boys who had attended the coinciding annual March for Life; they were widely shared through social media.^{[25] [26] [27]} Print media described Phillips as surrounded by the students, one of whom, Nicholas Sandmann, exhibited a "relentless smirk".^{[28] [Notes 2]} Phillips had walked towards and into a group of adolescent boys from Covington Catholic High School (CovCath), who had traveled from Kentucky on a school trip to attend the anti-abortion March for Life.^{[Notes 3]} He began to chant the AIM Song, a traditional Native American inter-tribal powwow vocal.^{[29] [eighteen]} Videos showed Sandmann, later on identified as a junior at CovCath,^[thirty] and Phillips facing each other inches apart while Phillips chanted and beat his pulsate and some of the students in the background allegedly did "Tomahawk chops" and danced.^[29] Several students wore red "Make America Great Once again" caps.^[30]

Shortly subsequently the video went viral, CovCath's communications director released a statement regretting that the incident took identify.^[26] On January 19, 2019, multiple students who were present at the incident stated that coverage of the incident had been skewed. Sandmann released a statement saying that the students were confronted by four members of the Blackness Hebrew Israelites, that Phillips tried to provoke the students, and denying that they had chanted "build the wall" or used whatever racist language or gestures.^{[thirty] [31] [32]} Interviewed after the event, Phillips said, "While I was in that location singing, I heard them saying 'Build that wall! Build that wall!', you know... this is indigenous land! ...We're not supposed to accept walls here, we never did—for millennium. Before everyone else came here nosotros never had walls. We never had a prison. We always took care of our elders, we took care of our children,"^[33] and "At that place was that moment when I realized I've put myself between fauna and prey, [t]hese young men were abominable and these onetime black individuals was their prey."^[34]

Robby Soave, writing for Reason magazine, and Caitlin Flanagan, writing in The Atlantic, have said that in their opinion, videos of the event either contradicted or failed to confirm parts of Phillips' version of events and the video testify, while it did non completely exonerate the boys' beliefs, was broadly consistent with their story.^{[35] [36]} Flanagan also said that video footage showed members of the Black Hebrew Israelites shouting racial insults and slurs at a grouping of Native Americans and afterwards at the students.^[36] Asked why he had approached the group of students, Phillips said that he was trying to defuse a confrontation between the group of students and a minor grouping of Black Hebrew Israelites who were shouting insults and profanities at the students.^{[29] [thirty]} In subsequent interviews, Phillips and his associates stated they interpreted the cheers that the students' directed toward their nearby Ethnic Peoples March every bit racist.^[37]

Notes [edit]

1. ^ According to a April 22, 2015, Fox local news written report by Dave Spencer, in 2015, Phillips filed a report of racial harassment with Eastern Michigan Academy campus law against thirty to 40 students who "referred to themselves every bit the Hurons, the onetime mascot at EMU", dressed as Native Americans for an American Indian theme party. He was "bombarded with racial slurs", and one of the students threw a beer tin at him.
2. ^ Print media weeks later on walked back much of its reporting; see for example this Editor'due south Notation.
3. ^ The March For Life had a let for a First Amendment demonstrations on the National Mall on that day. According to The Cut, CovCath sends an almanac delegation of its students to attend the anti-abortion March For Life in Washington.

References [edit]

1. ^ Maria Stanisheva, Between Earth and Sky Archived January xx, 2019, at the Wayback Motorcar (graduation film, 2012). Run across too: Eastward Harlem Preservation, Inc., 'EHP TV Presents: Nathan Phillips in East Harlem (March xix, 2017)' (YouTube), "Nosotros had the smashing honor of meeting Sky Man (Nathan Phillips), an Omaha Tribe Elderberry and Water Protector, when he spoke at Urban Atabex Healing in Community Network & Bohio Atabei's Spring Equinox Gathering at Casabe Houses in East Harlem, NYC"; in the video, Phillips introduces himself as Sky Man.
2. ^ Tribune, Jack Dura / Bismarck (Feb 24, 2018). "One twelvemonth afterward pipeline protestation's end, 'I would accept done information technology..." Thedickinsonpress.com. Retrieved Jan 22, 2019.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Copp, Tara (January 23, 2019). "Tribal elderberry in viral standoff video was not a Vietnam veteran, armed services records show". Military Times . Retrieved January 26, 2019. Nathan Phillips, 64, spent four years in the Marine Corps Reserve and left in 1976 with the rank of individual, or E-1, the Marines said in a statement providing his personal releasable data.
4. ^ ^{a b} Kelley World-Herald staff, Matt (January 21, 2019) [November 26, 2000]. "Who is Nathan Phillips? Years ago, Omaha Tribe fellow member said spiritual journeying was grounded in mall prayer acuity". Omaha World Herald. Washington, D.C. Retrieved January 21, 2019. The Washington Postal service even stopped past, publishing a lengthy essay last week connecting Phillips' acuity to a well-mannered protestation of Thanksgiving.
5. ^ "A mourning wake up call". The Washington Post. November 21, 2000. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
6. ^ "The Power of Nathan Phillips's Song". Vogue. Retrieved Jan 21, 2019.
7. ^ ^{a b} Josh Funk, 'A dissever plume', The Daily Nebraskan January 11, 1999.
8. ^ "Native American leader of Michigan: 'Mob mentality' in students was 'scary'". Detroit Gratis Press . Retrieved January 21, 2019.
9. ^ Did Nathan Phillips Falsely Merits He Was a Vietnam Veteran?, Snopes, Dan Evon, January 23, 2019
10. ^ Nathan Phillips, human being at eye of standoff with Covington teens, misrepresented his armed services history, The Washington Post, Dan Lamothe, January 24, 2019
11. ^ Lamothe, Dan (January 23, 2019). "A grouping representing Nathan Phillips wrongly said he served in Vietnam. And so came the accusations". The Washington Post.
12. ^ ^{a b} Mervosh, Sarah. "Boys in 'Make America Great Over again' Hats Mob Native Elder at Indigenous Peoples March". The New York Times.
13. ^ "Outcry after Kentucky students in Maga hats mock Native American veteran". The Guardian. Jan 20, 2019. Retrieved Jan 20, 2019.
14. ^ 'The Latest: Police: About 20 fires set up at Dakota Admission camp', Associated Press February 23, 2017.
15. ^ Jack Dura, 'Hundreds of Dakota Admission protestation cases remain open', Associated Press March 3, 2018.
16. ^ Spencer, Dave (Apr 22, 2015). "Native American claims racial harassment by EMU students dressed as Indians". WJBK. Retrieved January xix, 2019.
17. ^ ^{a b} Olivo, Antonio; Wootson Jr, Cleve R.; Heim, Joe (January 19, 2019). "Native American drummer speaks on the teens who surrounded him wearing MAGA hats". New Zealand Herald. The Washington Post. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved January nineteen, 2019.
18. ^ ^{a b} Schilling, Vincent (January 19, 2019). "Outrage as non-Native youth wearing #MAGA hats taunt and disrespect Native elder". Indian State Today . Retrieved January 19, 2019.
19. ^ "Betwixt Earth and Heaven". Kickstarter. Retrieved Jan 20, 2019.
20. ^ "Betwixt Earth and Sky ‹ Maria Stanisheva's portfolio & blog". Mariastanisheva.com. Archived from the original on Jan xx, 2019. Retrieved January xx, 2019.
21. ^ "Between Globe and Sky". Winter Film Awards. March 20, 2013. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
22. ^ Between Globe and Sky. IMDb. Oct xx, 2012. Event occurs at 22 minutes. Retrieved January 19, 2019. Maria Stanisheva (Managing director/Writer) Starring Nathan Phillips and Shoshana Phillips with music past Nathan Phillips.
23. ^ Make It Bun Dem. Itunes.apple.com. May 1, 2012. Retrieved Jan xix, 2019.
24. ^ Marco Frucht (Director) (Feb 20, 2017). Nate Phillips Gives Skrillex A Shoutout From the DAPL protests. Consequence occurs at 83 seconds. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
25. ^ "Haaland condemns students' behavior toward Native elder at Indigenous Peoples March". The Colina. Jan 18, 2019. Retrieved January nineteen, 2019.
26. ^ ^{a b} Londberg, Max (Jan 19, 2019). "School faces backlash later on incident at Indigenous Peoples March". Cincinnati Enquirer . Retrieved Jan 19, 2019.
27. ^ "Local high school 'looking into' incident at march in D.C." WCPO. January 19, 2019. Retrieved Jan 19, 2019.
28. ^ Cleve R. Wootson Jr.; Antonio Olivo; Cleve R. Wootson Jr. (January 22, 2019). "'Information technology was getting ugly': Native American drummer speaks on his encounter with MAGA-lid-wearing teens". The Washington Mail . Retrieved March 2, 2019. Surrounding him are a throng of young, more often than not white teenage boys, several wearing "Brand America Dandy Again" caps. 1 stood nearly a foot from the drummer's face up wearing a relentless smirk.
29. ^ ^{a b c} "A tribal elder and a high school junior stood face to face, and the world reacted". The Washington Mail service. 2019.
30. ^ ^{a b c d} Chamberlain, Samuel (January xx, 2019). "Kentucky student seen in viral confrontation with Native American speaks out". Fox News. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
31. ^ "Covington Cosmic students react to incident involving Native Americans in D.C." WKRC Cincinnati News. Park Hills, Kentucky. January 20, 2019. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
32. ^ Brookbank, Sarah (January 20, 2019). "Longer video shows start of Covington Catholic incident at Ethnic Peoples March". Cincinnati Enquirer . Retrieved January 21, 2019.
33. ^ Gallucci, Nicole (January 18, 2019). "Teens in MAGA hats sparked outrage after crashing the Ethnic Peoples March". Mashable. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
34. ^ Niraj Warikoo (January 24, 2019). "Native American leader of Michigan: 'Mob mentality' in students was 'scary'". Detroit Complimentary Printing . Retrieved January xxx, 2019. "There was that moment when I realized I've put myself betwixt beast and casualty," Phillips said. "These immature men were abominable and these former black individuals was their prey,
35. ^ "The Media Wildly Mischaracterized That Video of Covington Catholic Students Confronting a Native American Veteran". January xx, 2019.
36. ^ ^{a b} Flanagan, Caitlin (Jan 23, 2019). "The Media Botched the Covington Catholic Story". The Atlantic. Retrieved Jan 25, 2019. ...while information technology does non fully exonerate the boys, it releases them from most of the serious charges...This is consistent with the long, harrowing statement that the smiling boy would release at the end of the weekend, in which he offered an caption for his actions that is consequent with the video footage that has so far emerged, and revealed what happened to him in the 48 hours after Americans ready to piece of work doxing him and threatening his family with violence.
37. ^ Stern, Mark Joseph (March thirteen, 2019). "The Legal Argument in Nicholas Sandmann's Defamation Lawsuits Is Basically "MAGA"". Slate.

External links [edit]

• Between World and Sky (2012) at IMDb
• Did Nathan Phillips Falsely Merits He Was a Vietnam Veteran? on Snopes
• Native elders recount the history of the song Nathan Phillips sang, the AIM Song on ICT

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Phillips_(activist)

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