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1965 (In the year)
196- |
The great, great, granddaughter of Chief Sitting Bull, Ina McNeil, became a Baha'i. She was born on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota and is a member of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe and the first Lakota to become a Bahá'í.
She was convinced of the truth of the Bahá'í Revelation because of the similarities between it and her Lakota heritage; to cite two examples, the legend of the return of White Buffalo Calf Maiden and the prophecies of Black Elk and his vision of Bahá'u'lláh. [Article by Radiance Talley] |
Black Elk; Chief Sitting Bull; Ina McNeil; Long Island, NY; New York, USA; South Dakota, USA; Standing Rock Sioux Reservation; White Buffalo Calf Maiden | Ina McNeil become the first Lakota to become a Bahá'í. |
1965 (In the year)
196- |
Emma Reinert, the first Faroese to become a Bahá'í, enrolled. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Faroe Islands, Denmark | first Faroese Bahá’í |
1965 (In the year)
196- |
Nils and Sigrid Rutfjäll, the first Samer (Lapps) to become Bahá'ís, enrolled in northern Norway. [BW5:483] | - First believers by background; - Indigenous people; Norway; Sámi people; Sápmi | first Samer (Lapps) Bahá’ís |
1965 (In the year)
196- |
William Carr visited Alert in Canada, only 800 km from the North Pole and the most northerly inhabited location in the world. | Alert, NU; Arctic; Canada; William Carr | |
1965 (In the year)
196- |
The first pioneer to the San Andrés and Providencia Islands settled there briefly. | - Travel teachers and pioneers, First; San Andres and Providencia Islands | first pioneer to the San Andrés and Providencia Islands |
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