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06/05/2023

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The beauty of a Native Americans comes out within us, can I get a "yes "🥰🙌🏻 I love you you all ❤️🥺❤️
05/24/2023

The beauty of a Native Americans comes out within us, can I get a "yes "🥰🙌🏻 I love you you all ❤️🥺❤️

Ralph Willet Dixey (Bannock tribe), Peter Jim (Shoshone tribe), 1897
05/11/2023

Ralph Willet Dixey (Bannock tribe), Peter Jim (Shoshone tribe), 1897

𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑 🌹🌹🌹(ʙᴏʀɴ ᴄʜᴇʀɪʟʏɴ sᴀʀᴋɪsɪᴀɴ; ᴍᴀʏ 𝟸𝟶, 𝟷𝟿𝟺𝟼)In 1961, Your mother Holt married bank manager Gilbert LaPiere, who adopt...
02/15/2023

𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑 🌹🌹🌹
(ʙᴏʀɴ ᴄʜᴇʀɪʟʏɴ sᴀʀᴋɪsɪᴀɴ; ᴍᴀʏ 𝟸𝟶, 𝟷𝟿𝟺𝟼)
In 1961, Your mother Holt married bank manager Gilbert LaPiere, who adopted Cher (under the name Cheryl LaPiere) and Georganne, and enrolled them at Montclair College Preparatory School, a private school in Encino, whose students were mostly from affluent families. The school's upper-class environment presented a challenge for Cher; biographer Connie Berman wrote, "[she] stood out from the others in both her striking appearance and outgoing personality." A former classmate commented, "I'll never forget seeing Cher for the first time. She was so special ... She was like a movie star, right then and there ... She said she was going to be a movie star and we knew she would." Despite not being an excellent student, Cher was intelligent and creative, according to Berman. She earned high grades, excelling in French and English classes. As an adult, she discovered that she had dyslexia. Cher's unconventional behavior stood out: she performed songs for students during the lunch hours and surprised peers when she wore a midriff-baring top.She later recalled, "I was never really in school. I was always thinking about when I was grown up and famous."

From it's beginnings in the mid-1800's, the Comanche Pe**te ritual has spread over time into the four directions and eve...
01/20/2023

From it's beginnings in the mid-1800's, the Comanche Pe**te ritual has spread over time into the four directions and even as far as Canada.
Tribal members still ardently gather for the night-long ceremonial pe**te meetings. Of the ceremony, participants actively engage in drumming, singing, and in sincere prayer. In the ceremony, the pe**te cactus is eaten in the course of the all-night meeting. Of the pe**te cactus, the early day Comanche Pe**te leader Red Sun voiced that the Creator put his spirit on the pe**te plant. Red Sun shared that the Creator said when you eat the pe**te, you will know me.
In his time, the noted Comanche Pe**te leader Tekwaki would genuinely pray for the Earth Mother, the life-giving Sun, to what is above and below the Earth, and to the Eagle.
After midnight, Tekwaki with a blackjack oak leafed cigarette, would blow his smoke to the Earth, the Sun, and to the sacred Sun Eagle. In his prayer for the well-being of the planet, Tekwaki declared:

"Well! you, great Earth, may we live upon you in blessing. Well! you, Sun-bird, receive this smoke! May we live beneath you in blessing." and he added "You also White Pe**te, receive this smoke. May we continue living in blessing under you! And you also our Father, who created us, the earth, and everything that is on it."

Outstanding tempera on mat board painting entitled "Pe**te Men in Prayer" by the well-known Comanche artist Rance Hood, circa 1974. Courtesy of the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Wes Studi is a native American Cherokee actor and Vietnam veteran. You may have seen him in a few movies such as "Last ...
01/18/2023

Wes Studi is a native American Cherokee actor and Vietnam veteran.
You may have seen him in a few movies such as "Last of the Mohicans" or "Dances with Wolves". Aside from the movies, he is an activist for both Native Americans and wounded combat veterans.
His first language was Cherokee an Iroquoian language and he didn't learn English until he started grade school.
His native language is an endangered language.
In fact, most of the indigenous languages in the Americas are endangered.
More than one thousand separate languages still spoken in the Americas and most of these languages will be extinct by the end of the next century.
Thank you for your service Wes!

Two Native american Beauty.🏹
01/16/2023

Two Native american Beauty.🏹

Woope. Our spiritual laws precede man made laws. They cant be changed or interpreted to fit ones self or actions. When w...
01/15/2023

Woope. Our spiritual laws precede man made laws. They cant be changed or interpreted to fit ones self or actions. When we pass onto the spirit world we will answer to what we do in this world.
I love listening to our elders and spiritual leaders when they tell about our teachings. I been a better person for it. Unlakota. We have a beautiful language, culture, songs, ceremonies. I'm grateful for another day. Woicala yuha mawani wacin.

Tecumseh was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native Ameri...
08/27/2022

Tecumseh was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh travelled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting inter-tribal unity.

Standing Bear (c. 1829–1908) (Ponca official orthography: Maⁿchú-Naⁿzhíⁿ/Macunajin; other spellings: Ma-chú-nu-zhe, Ma-c...
07/28/2022

Standing Bear (c. 1829–1908) (Ponca official orthography: Maⁿchú-Naⁿzhíⁿ/Macunajin; other spellings: Ma-chú-nu-zhe, Ma-chú-na-zhe or Mantcunanjin pronounced [mãtʃuꜜnãʒĩꜜ]) was a Ponca chief and Native American civil rights leader who successfully argued in U.S. District Court in 1879 in Omaha that Native Americans are "persons within the meaning of the law" and have the right of habeas corpus, thus becoming the first Native American judicially granted civil rights under American law. His first wife Zazette Primeau (Primo), daughter of Lone Chief (also known as Antoine Primeau), mother of Prairie Flower and Bear Shield, was also a signatory on the 1879 writ that initiated the famous court case.

Chief Big Eagle 🦅 (1827-1906)Mdewakanton Dakota Chief; during the US-Dakota War of 1862, he commanded a Mdewakanton Dako...
07/28/2022

Chief Big Eagle 🦅 (1827-1906)
Mdewakanton Dakota Chief; during the US-Dakota War of 1862, he commanded a Mdewakanton Dakota band of two hundred warriors at Crow Creek in McLeod County, Minn. His Dakota name was "Wamdetonka," which literally means Great War Eagle, but he was commonly called Big Eagle. He was born in his Black Dog's village a few miles above Mendota on the south bank of the Minnesota River in 1827. When he was a young man, he often went on war parties against the Ojibwe and other enemies of the Dakota. He wore three eagle's feathers to show his coups. When his father Chief Grey Iron died, he succeeded him as sub-chief of the Mdewakanton band.
In 1851, by the terms of the treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota, The Dakota sold all of their land in Minnesota except a strip ten miles wide near the Minnesota River. In 1857, Big Eagle succeeded his father, Grey Iron, as Chief. In 1858, the remaining land was sold through the influence of Little Crow. That same year, Big Eagle went with some other chiefs to Washington D. C. to negotiate grievances with federal officials. Negotiations were unsuccessful. In 1894, he was interviewed about the Dakota War and its causes. He spoke about how the Indians wanted to live as they did before the treaty of Traverse des Sioux – to go where they pleased and when they pleased; hunt game wherever they could find it, sell their furs to the traders and live as they could. He also spoke of the corruption among the Indian agents and traders, with no legal recourse for the Dakota, and the way they were treated by many of the whites: "They always seemed to say by their manner when they saw an Indian, 'I am much better than you,' and the Indians did not like this. There was excuse for this, but the Dakotas did not believe there were better men in the world than they..."
In 1862, Big Eagle's village was on Crow Creek, Minn. His band numbered about 200 people, including 40 warriors. As the summer of 1862 advanced, conflict boiled among the Dakota who wanted to live like the white man and the majority who didn't. The Civil War was in full force and many Minnesota men had left their homes to fight in a war that the North was said to be losing. Some longtime Indian agents who were trusted by the Dakota were replaced with men who did not respect the Indians and their culture. Most of the Dakota believed it was a good time to go to war with the whites and take back their lands. Though he took part in the war, he said he was against it. He knew there was no good cause for it, as he had been to Washington and knew the power of the whites and believed they would ultimately conquer the Dakota people.
When war was declared, Chief Little Crow told some of Big Eagle's band that if he refused to lead them, they were to shoot him as a traitor who would not stand up for his nation and then select another leader in his place. When the war broke out on Aug. 17, 1862, he first saved the lives of some friends - George H. Spencer and a half-breed family - and then led his men in the second battles at Fort Ridgely and New Ulm on August 22 and 23. Some 800 Dakota were at the battle of Fort Ridgely, but could not defeat the soldiers due to their defense with artillery. They retreated and a few days later, he and his band trailed some soldiers to their encampment at Birch Coulee, near Morton in Renville County. About 200 of the Dakota surrounded the camp and attacked it at daylight. After two days of battle, General Sibley arrived with reinforcements and the Dakota eventually retreated. He and his band participated in a last attempt to defeat the whites at the battle of Wood Lake on September 23. However, they were once again defeated when their hiding place for ambush was discovered prematurely by some soldiers who went foraging for food
Soon after the battle, Big Eagle and other Dakotas who had taken part in the war surrendered to General Sibley with the understanding they would be given leniency. However, he was one of about 400 Dakota men who were tried by a Military Commission for alleged war crimes or atrocities committed during the war. After a kangaroo court trial, Big Eagle was sentenced to ten years in prison for taking part in the war. At his trial, a great number of witnesses were interviewed, but none could say that he had murdered any one or had done anything to deserve death. Therefore, he was saved from death by hanging. He was released after serving three years of his sentence in the prison at Davenport and the penitentiary at Rock Island. He believed his imprisonment for that long of a time was unjust because he had surrendered in good faith. He had not murdered any whites and if he killed or wounded a man, it had been in a fair, open fight.
The translators who interviewed him in 1894 described him as being very frank and unreserved, candid, possessing more than ordinary intelligence, and deliberate in striving to speak the truth. When speaking of his imprisonment, he said that all feeling on his part about it had long since passed away. He had been known as Jerome Big Eagle, but his true Christian name was "Elijah." For years, he had been a Christian and he hoped to die one. "My white neighbors and friends know my character as a citizen and a man. I am at peace with every one, whites and Indians. I am getting to be an old man, but I am still able to work. I am poor, but I manage to get along." He lived his final years in peace at Granite Falls, Minn.

In the series 1880 Crow Peace Delegation, Wendy Red Star brings to light a nationwide ignorance of Indigenous cultures i...
07/26/2022

In the series 1880 Crow Peace Delegation, Wendy Red Star brings to light a nationwide ignorance of Indigenous cultures in the United States. This image of Medicine Crow was originally taken by Charles Milton Bell during a historic meeting between the Crow delegation and the U.S. settler government, resulting in railroad expansion that encroached into Crow land rights. The portraits circulated, leaving the sitter and nation unidentified, helping to perpetuate an easily-appropriated, stereotyped view of Native Americans. By annotating reproductions of these images with details of the sitter’s achievements, regalia, and life experiences, Red Star reasserts and educates non-indigenous viewers on the individuality of Medicine Crow. She states, “I want people to realize that the images of Medicine Crow are more than just a handsome Native man. The images represent a human being, a reservation era chief, the forming of the Crow Indian reservation, the loss of Crow lands, the changing of a people, the resilience of a culture.”

Chief Mountain - BlackfeetCreator : Rinehart, F. A. (Frank A.)Date : 1898Studio head and shoulders portrait of a Native ...
07/26/2022

Chief Mountain - Blackfeet

Creator : Rinehart, F. A. (Frank A.)

Date : 1898

Studio head and shoulders portrait of a Native American (Blackfeet, Siksika) man, identified as Chief Mountain. He wears a blanket around his waist, a fringed hide shirt, bead necklaces accented by strips of fur, hair decorations of fur and feathers, and long straight hair.

Film negatives; Photographic prints; Portrait photographs

Subject : Indians of North America; Siksika Indians; Mountain, Siksika Chief.

Indian girl of the Southwest - Moon - 1914
07/21/2022

Indian girl of the Southwest - Moon - 1914

(Memorial at Kuamo’o)Manono - Warrior chiefessManono ( c.1780 -1819) was the wife of Hawaiian Chief Kekuaokalani and is ...
07/18/2022

(Memorial at Kuamo’o)

Manono - Warrior chiefess
Manono ( c.1780 -1819) was the wife of Hawaiian Chief Kekuaokalani and is remembered for fighting alongside her husband. By 1819, Hawaiian society was divided regarding the survival of the native religion. King Kamehameha II and his regent, Kaʻahumanu, broke the sacred kapu system, notably by having women eating with the men. Kaʻahumanu also converted to Christianity and encouraged the king to dismantle the temples.

Manono and Kekuaokalani rose in defense of the old religion. Their efforts culminated in the Battle of Kuamo’o in 1819. Manono fought bravely by her husband’s side. After the chief was killed, she was hit in the temple by a musket ball and fell dead.

Interestingly, oral tradition remembers Manono as having trained warrior women. Elder Mahilani Poepoe (1946–2004) recounts that Manono was a strong, beautiful and athletic woman, an excellent swimmer and a crack spear-thrower. She raised queen Kaʻahumanu as a warrior woman and trained other women to protect her.

This is indeed in keeping with previous examples of female warriors on the islands. Native elder Kahu Naone, a Lua (a native fighting art) expert, told many facts about Hawaiian female warriors during an interview. Pōpoki (cat) was the name given to female warriors since they used “crouching and spring” fighting techniques and cat-like movements that were difficult to read. These women used their flexibility to their advantage.

Pōpokis used the same weapons as male Lua practitioners, such as the ma‘a and pōhaku (sling and stone), some also used a pikoi (tripping cord). Those women were also adept at dissimulating their warrior identity and creating new weapons. Their headpieces could thus be used for self-defense and they tucked small knives in their pareo. Pōpokis were royal women and were taught the fighting arts to protect themselves and avoid capture. Lua teachers would also train their daughters.
King Kamehameha I had three divisions of warrior women trained in Lua. Chiefesses accompanied their husband into the battle of Nu’uanu Pali in 1795, they were experts in the use of the European musket and constituted the first line of offense against the enemy.

Child of Quanah Parker, Comanche - Unknown photo - 1892
07/16/2022

Child of Quanah Parker, Comanche - Unknown photo - 1892

07/15/2022

Mississippi River: "The Valley of the Giant" ~ 1949 US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)

The mysterious crypt in Dartford Cemetery, where some say if you sit on it, ghostly hands will push you off, and the spi...
07/13/2022

The mysterious crypt in Dartford Cemetery, where some say if you sit on it, ghostly hands will push you off, and the spirits of pioneer children and the area’s last Native American chief still wander among the graves.

“Wanduta” (Red Arrow)Dakota First Nation, Oak Lake area, Manitoba, ca. 1913Photographer: H.W. Gould Library and Archive...
07/11/2022

“Wanduta” (Red Arrow)
Dakota First Nation, Oak Lake area, Manitoba, ca. 1913
Photographer: H.W. Gould Library and Archives Canada, PA-030027

Group of Native American ChiefsThis Great Native American Chiefs online exhibit was put together as part of a University...
07/10/2022

Group of Native American Chiefs
This Great Native American Chiefs online exhibit was put together as part of a University of Michigan Library diversity goal. The exhibit creators both have a strong interest in Native American history and culture. They feel that Native Americans have been misunderstood, and that their history has not always been accurately written about in history books. This exhibit is about reaching out to an audience which has an interest in Native Americans, and learning about their existence, culture and history

Portrait of Shon-Ge-Ni-Ka-Ga-Hi ... ✊🏼Profile studio portrait of Shon-Ge-Ni-Ka-Ga-Hi (Horse Chief), Son of White Eagle...
07/09/2022

Portrait of Shon-Ge-Ni-Ka-Ga-Hi ... ✊🏼

Profile studio portrait of Shon-Ge-Ni-Ka-Ga-Hi (Horse Chief), Son of White Eagle, in partial native dress with headdress, breastplate and holding pipe. Part of Siouan (Sioux) and Ponka Tribes.
Creation Date : February 1906
Creator Name : Gill, De Lancey W.
Courtesy of Native Sioux ... ✊🏼 A'ho Brother ...

An Overview of the Black Experience of the American Revolution
07/09/2022

An Overview of the Black Experience of the American Revolution

A Native American woman and her two children at the camp grounds during the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial in Gallup, Ne...
06/18/2022

A Native American woman and her two children at the camp grounds during the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial in Gallup, New Mexico, 1940. Photographed by Ivan Dmitri.

Island Smith at his desk, ca 1935 Smith, an Afro-Creek herbal doctor who practiced in Oklahoma in the early 1900s, drew ...
06/17/2022

Island Smith at his desk, ca 1935 Smith, an Afro-Creek herbal doctor who practiced in Oklahoma in the early 1900s, drew his spiritual power from both African and Native American traditions.

art by Charles Frizzell
06/17/2022

art by Charles Frizzell

Te-wi-at sosteniendo a su bebé en una cuna. Yakama. Fotografía tomada por Thomas Leander Moorhouse en el año 1900
06/16/2022

Te-wi-at sosteniendo a su bebé en una cuna. Yakama. Fotografía tomada por Thomas Leander Moorhouse en el año 1900

Ralph Willet Dixey of the Bannock tribe and Peter Jim of the Shoshone tribe, 1897.
06/16/2022

Ralph Willet Dixey of the Bannock tribe and Peter Jim of the Shoshone tribe, 1897.

Nez Pierce Chief Lawyer holding an elbow pipe 1861
06/15/2022

Nez Pierce Chief Lawyer holding an elbow pipe
1861

Combining family history and rigorous research, this brilliant text deepens our understanding of post-Civil War Reconstr...
06/15/2022

Combining family history and rigorous research, this brilliant text deepens our understanding of post-Civil War Reconstruction by interrogating what happened in Indian Territory, revealing the layered wreckage wrought on the Native nations and formerly enslaved Africans, all entrapped in the pernicious logic of settler-colonialism

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