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11/20/2023

Julian Black Antelope 💎
Representing the Buckskin, Black Horse family of the Weasel People, Julian Black Antelope aka "JBA" is a Canadian actor of First Nations/Central American and Irish descent. JBA's performing career first began in the Canadian music scene before transitioning to acting in film and television in the early 2000's. As a self-taught actor, JBA built the foundation of his career with an amalgamation of day player roles, stunts and working various crew positions on a steady stream of projects in southern Alberta including DreamWorks/TNT's epic six-part mini-series Into the West (2005). JBA"s breakout role in a television series would come on the gritty and critically acclaimed Blackstone (2009). Four seasons of Black Antelope's portrayal of Darrien Tailfeathers earned him several accolades including a Canadian Screen Award nomination.

In 2014 JBA was cast as "Mr. Kidd" in John Logan's Penny Dreadful (2014) which took him overseas to Ireland and has since worked consistently nationally and internationally on Film and TV projects such as Dominion Creek (2015), Condor (2018), Dark Justice (2018), Hold the Dark (2018), Debris (2021), The Flash (2014), Prey (2022), Grendel.

11/20/2023

Native Tribes of North America Mapped
The ancestors of living Native Americans arrived in North America about 15 thousand years ago. As a result, a wide diversity of communities, societies, and cultures finally developed on the continent over the millennia.
The population figure for Indigenous peoples in the Americas before the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus was 70 million or more.
About 562 tribes inhabited the contiguous U.S. territory. Ten largest North American Indian tribes: Arikara, Cherokee, Iroquois, Pawnee, Sioux, Apache, Eskimo, Comanche, Choctaw, Cree, Ojibwa, Mohawk, Cheyenne, Navajo, Seminole, Hope, Shoshone, Mohican, Shawnee, Mi’kmaq, Paiute, Wampanoag, Ho-Chunk, Chumash, Haida.
Below is the tribal map of Pre-European North America.
The old map below gives a Native American perspective by placing the tribes in full flower ~ the “Glory Days.” It is pre-contact from across the eastern sea or, at least, before that contact seriously affected change. Stretching over 400 years, the time of contact was quite different from tribe to tribe. For instance, the “Glory Days” of the Maya and Aztec came to an end very long before the interior tribes of other areas, with some still resisting almost until the 20th Century.
At one time, numbering in the millions, the native peoples spoke close to 4,000 languages.
The Americas’ European conquest, which began in 1492, ended in a sharp drop in the Native American population through epidemics, hostilities, ethnic cleansing, and slavery.
When the United States was founded, established Native American tribes were viewed as semi-independent nations, as they commonly lived in communities separate from white immigrants
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11/20/2023

𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐞
𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙆𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖, a member of the Cowlitz tribe long before the Cowlitz had federal recognition as a Indian tribe in the State of Washington. Mary was 107 in this portrait taken by Josef Scaylea in the year of 1957. Mary lived past the age of 117. She was the longest living Native American in the State of Washington. She was known for her daily ten mile walks to go visit her friends and relatives. Mary spoke no English and was called upon by Washington state government and historians to provide information about what she had witnessed in the 1800's as she had been born about 1850. Mary's family always accompanied her and interpreted for her as she would report.
Mary Kiona was Joe's all time greatest subject of his 37 years as chief photographer at The Seattle times News Paper. Mary liked Joe enough to invite him to family gatherings and allow him to take photos of her as her friend.

11/19/2023

𝐀𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐅𝐄𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐜.𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟑: 🔥🔥
Photo taken by the legendary Edward Curtis in 1903. The Apaches rule in basketry. Their baskets were woven so tight, they could carry water, as seen here.
Photo Courtesy~LibraryofCongress.

11/19/2023

Kiera Antonique Fox "Winter Breeze", MHA Nation / Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe / Southern Cheyenne/ Nakoda, captured in the historic wet plate collodion process of silver on glass for the series "Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective". Thank you Jason Morsette for arranging her visit.
Carl Zeiss Tessar 300mm lens, f4.5, 7 seconds of exposure, 8x10" black glass ambrotype, natural light through Northern facing windows and skylights at Nostalgic Glass Wet Plate Studio, Bismarck, North Dakota, Plate 4524 taken on 1-13-2023.

11/18/2023

THE OMAHA ACTOR RODNEY A. GRANT:
Grant was abandoned by his parents, and raised by grandparents on the Omaha Rez. He starred in "Dances with Wolves", "Geronimo, an American Legend" "Hawkeye" and a list of other films. Mr Grant illustrates a clash of cultures here at an awards ceremony, by appearing in both the customary evening attire and a traditional headdress. Blessed are those who know themselves, and remember where they came from.
Photo Courtesy~imdb

11/18/2023

THE BUFFALO NICKEL, AND 'END OF THE TRAIL' SCULPTURE:
The most heartbreaking image in Native American history, is that of the lone warrior slumped over on his horse. Even the horse itself appears to be on the verge of collapse. The buffalo has long disappeared, along with the old ways. the Indian Wars are over, and this warrior has surrendered even in spirit. All has been lost. For him, there is nothing to live for.

11/17/2023

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐊𝐎𝐓𝐀 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐑, 𝐈𝐑𝐎𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐍: 🔥🔥
An Oglala sub-chief, he fought among the Lakotas' 'Midnight Strong Hearts' warrior society under Chief Crazy Horse, at Battle of the Greasy Grass (Little Big Horn). He managed to capture a US Cavalry man's pistol. After the Indian Wars ended, IWM travelled with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Meanwhile, his face certainly lives up to the name.
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11/17/2023

Keanu Reeves was abandoned by his father at 3 years old and grew up with 3 different stepfathers. He is dyslexic. His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident. His daughter died at birth. His wife died in a car accident. His best friend, River Phoenix, died of an overdose. His sister has leukemia.
And with everything that has happened, Keanu Reeves never misses an opportunity to help people in need. When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants; One cried because he would lose his house if he did not pay $20,000 and on the same day Keanu deposited the necessary amount in the woman's bank account; He also donated stratospheric sums to hospitals.
In 2010, on his birthday, Keanu walked into a bakery and bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery, and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him.
After winning astronomical sums for the Matrix trilogy, the actor donated more than $50 million to the staff who handled the costumes and special effects - the true heroes of the trilogy, as he called them.
He also gave a Harley-Davidson to each of the stunt doubles. A total expense of several million dollars. And for many successful films, he has even given up 90% of his salary to allow the production to hire other stars.
In 1997 some paparazzi found him walking one morning in the company of a homeless man in Los Angeles, listening to him and sharing his life for a few hours.
Most stars when they make a charitable gesture they declare it to all the media. He has never claimed to be doing charity, he simply does it as a matter of moral principles and not to look better in the eyes of others.
This man could buy everything, and instead every day he gets up and chooses one thing that cannot be bought: To be a good person.
Keanu Reeves’ father is of Native Hawaiian descent
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11/17/2023

YELLOW TAIL (Hawk with Yellow Tail Feathers), rare and magnificent hand-colored portrait, likely 1905-11. He wore a porcupine hair roach. He was father to Robert Yellowtail, who became an important leader of Montana’s Crow (Apsáalooke).
At age 13, Robert Yellowtail was sent to California’s Sherman Institute, graduating from the high school at age 17. In 1910, Chief Plenty Coup asked Robert, age 21, to return home and help fight against efforts to open the Reservation to White homesteaders. In 1934, Yellowtail was appointed as Agency Superintendent, the first Native to hold the post.

11/16/2023

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐇𝐔𝐀 𝐀𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐍, 𝐆𝐎𝐘𝐀𝐓𝐋𝐄 (𝐆𝐄𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐎) 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐃𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐔𝐏: 🔥🔥
He lost the war, but not his soul
The nantan is seen here for what he became; a dignified, admired, and unbroken POW. Meanwhile, those are winter moccasins he is wearing. They certainly look warm. RIP, Nantan Goyatle.
Courtesy~Pinterest.

11/16/2023

Wes Studi's has had one long enjoyable acting career. He was raised in Nofire Hollow Oklahoma, speaking Cherokee only until he started school. At 17 he joined the National Guard and later went to Vietnam. After his discharge, Studi became politically active in American Indian affairs. He participated in Wounded Knee at Pine Ridge Reservation in 1973. Wes is known for his roles as a fierce Native American warrior, such as the Pawnee warrior in Dances with Wolves. In the Last of the Mohicans he plays the Huron named Magua, which was his first major part. Soon after he got the lead role in Geronimo: An American Legend. He was in Skinwalkers, The Lone Ranger, and The Horse Whisperer. He played the Indian out in the desert in The Doors movie, and he was also in Avatar. Studi also plays bass and he and his wife are in a band called Firecat of Discord. Wes Studi also serves as honorary chair of the national endowment campaign, of the Indigenous Language Institute that's working to save Native Languages. He and his family live in Santa Fe New Mexico, and Wes has been in several other movies, TV shows and movies, and mini series. He also received an Academy Honorary Award, becoming the first Native American and the second North American Indigenous person to be honored by the Academy, the first was Buffy Sainte-Marie

11/15/2023

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐍 𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐑, 𝐖𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐋𝐄𝐆: 🔥🔥
He faced General Custer at Battle of the Greasy Grass (Little Big Horn). Groomed for combat and war, Wooden Leg fought at both Battle of the Rosebud, and Battle of the Greasy Grass (Little Big Horn), at the age of 18. Later, he gave writers a full account of what he saw at counting coup distance (close enough to tap the enemy with the 3 foot coupstick).
Courtesy~LakotaTimes.

11/15/2023

“I just found this picture on the Oklahoma Indian Historical Society webpage. It is a picture of me (on the right) and my twin brother on the left. It was taken in 1953. We weren't wearing our arm bustles because it would have obscured our faces. This picture is in a group of pictures labeled "American Indian Exposition."
From Alvin Deer 💥💥

11/14/2023

🌼🌼𝑍𝑖𝑡𝑘𝑎́𝑙𝑎-𝑆̌𝑎́ 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑌𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝐷𝑎𝑘𝑜𝑡𝑎 writer, musician, educator, and activist. Throughout her career, she wrote and published a variety of works, including an anthology of Dakota stories and an opera.
In 1916 she was the Secretary of the Society of the American Indian and served as the liaison between the society and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In 1926 she founded the National Council of American Indians. Just a few years later in 1928, she was appointed to the Merriam Commission, whose findings led to important reforms.
Zitkála-Šá continually advocated for Native rights, opportunities, and cultural preservation throughout her life.

11/14/2023

Keanu Reeves was abandoned by his father at 3 years old and grew up with 3 different stepfathers. He is dyslexic. His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident. His daughter died at birth. His wife died in a car accident. His best friend, River Phoenix, died of an overdose. His sister has leukemia.
And with everything that has happened, Keanu Reeves never misses an opportunity to help people in need. When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants; One cried because he would lose his house if he did not pay $20,000 and on the same day Keanu deposited the necessary amount in the woman's bank account; He also donated stratospheric sums to hospitals.
In 2010, on his birthday, Keanu walked into a bakery and bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery, and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him.
After winning astronomical sums for the Matrix trilogy, the actor donated more than $50 million to the staff who handled the costumes and special effects - the true heroes of the trilogy, as he called them.
He also gave a Harley-Davidson to each of the stunt doubles. A total expense of several million dollars. And for many successful films, he has even given up 90% of his salary to allow the production to hire other stars.
In 1997 some paparazzi found him walking one morning in the company of a homeless man in Los Angeles, listening to him and sharing his life for a few hours.
Most stars when they make a charitable gesture they declare it to all the media. He has never claimed to be doing charity, he simply does it as a matter of moral principles and not to look better in the eyes of others.
This man could buy everything, and instead every day he gets up and chooses one thing that cannot be bought: To be a good person.
Keanu Reeves’ father is of Native Hawaiian descent
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11/14/2023

LONG HAIR
Traditionally, long hair was always a symbol of masculinity. All of history's great warriors had long hair, from the Greeks (who wrote odes to their heroes' hair) to the Nordic, from the American Indians (famous for their long shiny hair) to the Japanese. And the longer and beautiful the hair was, the more manly the warrior was considered. Vikings flaunted their braids and samurai wore their long hair as a symbol of their honor (they cut their braid when they lose honor).
When a warrior was captured, his mane was cut to humiliate him, to take away his beauty. That custom resumed in what is today military service. There when new soldiers begin their training the first thing they do is cut their hair to undermine their self-esteem, make them submissive and make them see who's boss.
The Romans were the ones who "invented" short hair so to speak, between the 1st and 5th centuries AD.. In battles they believed this gave them defensive advantages, since their opponents couldn't grab them by the hair. This also helped them to recognize each other in the battlefield.
Short hair on men is a relatively new "invention" that has nothing to do with aesthetics.
But today we often see men being humiliated, sometimes called "gay" for wearing long hair, not knowing that short hair is actually the "anti-masculine" and is a repressive social imposition, while long hair symbolizes freedom.

11/13/2023

𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐀 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐓, 𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟖. 🔥🔥
Twelve adult men and other Blackfeet tribal members traveled in a dedicated Great Northern railcar to Hollywood to make a movie with child-star Shirley Temple (center), 20th Century Fox’s top moneymaker. The old people felt they were traveling to a strange country, so they prayed hard to be protected.
The Blackfeet brought their own ceremonial finery. Shirley Temple’s costume was made by an actor’s wife. Many Guns reported that on the train they wore ordinary store clothes. They put on buckskins and headdresses to look proud when they arrived in the strange land of Los Angeles, California. When they ate at the famed Brown Derby, Many Guns was certain that the restaurant had never before hosted old buffalo hunters and warriors.
For two months, the Blackfeet lived in tent houses on the Fox studio lot and usually ate at the commissary with other actors. Tom Many Guns, standing right, and Eddie Big Beaver, standing left, were the youngest adults and served as interpreters. At age 80 in 1976, 37 years after the movie was released, Many Guns reported that he was getting monthly residual payments of $191, about $850 in current value. You can view the colorized version of “Susannah Of The Mounties” on YouTube.
Adolf Hungrywolf documented stories from original participants. Click or zoom image to clarify/enlarge.

11/13/2023

GRAHAM GREENE - Born June 22, 1952, on the Six Nations Reserve in Ohsweken, Ontario, Mr. Greene is a 68 year old FIRST NATIONS Canadian actor who belongs to the ONEIDA tribe. He has worked on stage, in film, and in TV productions in Canada, the U.K., and the U.S. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his 1990 performance in "Dances with Wolves". Other films you may have seen him in include Thunderheart, Maverick, Die Hard with a Vengeance, the Green Mile, and Wind River. Graham Greene graduated from the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in 1974 & immediately began performing in professional theatre in Toronto and England, while also working as an audio technician for area rock bands. His TV debut was in 1979 and his screen debut in 1983. His acting career has now spanned over 4 decades & he remains as busy as ever. In addition to the Academy Award nomination for Dance with Wolves, he has been consistently recognized for his work, and also received nominations in 1994, 2000, 2004, 2006, and 2016. Graham Greene lives in Toronto, Canada, married since 1994, and has 1 adult daughter.

11/12/2023

🌷🌷🌷She is Half Navajo from the Navajo Nation of the Hon´agha´ahnii Clan and half Sans Arch Lakota Sioux of the Cheyenne River Tribe….made history as The First fulltime college student (Male or Female) to ever come out of the state of Kansas and win a National Intercollegiate Championship title and Belt!..Not Kansas University, not Kansas state university, or Wichita state university but from lil ol’ Haskell Indian Nations University!!!!!!…She fight out of the Haskell Boxing Club in Lawrence, KS…

11/12/2023

Native Tribes of North America Mapped
The ancestors of living Native Americans arrived in North America about 15 thousand years ago. As a result, a wide diversity of communities, societies, and cultures finally developed on the continent over the millennia.
The population figure for Indigenous peoples in the Americas before the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus was 70 million or more.
About 562 tribes inhabited the contiguous U.S. territory. Ten largest North American Indian tribes: Arikara, Cherokee, Iroquois, Pawnee, Sioux, Apache, Eskimo, Comanche, Choctaw, Cree, Ojibwa, Mohawk, Cheyenne, Navajo, Seminole, Hope, Shoshone, Mohican, Shawnee, Mi’kmaq, Paiute, Wampanoag, Ho-Chunk, Chumash, Haida.
Below is the tribal map of Pre-European North America.
The old map below gives a Native American perspective by placing the tribes in full flower ~ the “Glory Days.” It is pre-contact from across the eastern sea or, at least, before that contact seriously affected change. Stretching over 400 years, the time of contact was quite different from tribe to tribe. For instance, the “Glory Days” of the Maya and Aztec came to an end very long before the interior tribes of other areas, with some still resisting almost until the 20th Century.
At one time, numbering in the millions, the native peoples spoke close to 4,000 languages.
The Americas’ European conquest, which began in 1492, ended in a sharp drop in the Native American population through epidemics, hostilities, ethnic cleansing, and slavery.
When the United States was founded, established Native American tribes were viewed as semi-independent nations, as they commonly lived in communities separate from white immigrants
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11/12/2023

A cabinet card of Sitting Bull autographed in his own hand. He probably sold thousands of autographs for $1 while touring with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show during the 1885 season.
Upon his band's return from Canada in 1881 after their getaway to Canada after LBH, he was held prisoner at Ft. Randall until May 1883, at which time he settled at the Standing Rock agency. Agent McLaughlin kept him on a tight leash but did give him permission to leave on a trip east, where he met and befriended Annie Oakley in St. Paul in Mar. 1884.
Sitting Bull was pursued by Buffalo Bill to join his Wild West show, and was also encouraged to join it by McLaughlin, who wanted to 'civilize' Sitting Bull, much like his LBH warrior lieutenants Gall and Grass (Charging Bear) had become at Standing Rock.
He was given a generous signing bonus and his responsibilities in the show only included riding around the ring once on horseback. He was paraded as the man who 'killed Custer'. After the shows he sold autographs, and, appalled at the poverty he saw on the streets of the cities that the show visited, gave away much or all of his proceeds to the beggars. He became close to Annie Oakley and adopted her as his daughter.
The experience out east left him disillusioned by white culture and he remained true to his native roots, to the consternation of Agent McLaughlin, who considered him a backwards thorn in his side.
While Sitting Bull's stature vastly declined on the reservation, many remained loyal to him, and he was called upon to join the Ghost Dance movement at Standing Rock by Lakota disciples from other reservations. McLaughlin was having none of that, and determined to remove him to Omaha temporarily until things settled down.
Sitting Bull's camp in the southern part of the agency had a routine to go up to Ft. Yates for rations every two weeks, but Sitting Bull never went along. McLaughlin thought that that would be a good time to detain him quietly and easily. However, he got wind that Sitting Bull was planning to sneak away during the night for Pine Ridge and McLaughlin was forced to change his plan. On Dec. 14, 1890, he ordered the Indian Police to arrest him, but the 'commando' operation failed miserably and Sitting Bull was killed along with several other people. The US Army was backing up the Indian Police from a distance and fired some Hotchkiss cannons on the camp. This terrified his people, who assumed they were all going to be killed, and so this now leaderless band left the reservation and scattered to the east and south, with some joining Spotted Elk on his journey to Pine Ridge, but unfortunately the very thing that they were afraid of would come to pass at Wounded Knee Creek on Dec. 29, 1890.

11/11/2023

❤Standing (aka Mrs. Standing Roman Nose), the widow of Woquini (aka Hook Nose, aka Roman Nose, aka Henry Caruthers Roman Nose), with an unidentified girl in Watonga, Oklahoma - Southern Cheyenne - 1941.
𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞: 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 & 𝐌𝐨-𝐜𝐡𝐢 (𝐚𝐤𝐚 𝐁𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐨 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐟 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧).

11/11/2023

Chief Blue Horse
(1820-), #16477 — Blue Horse – Oglala – 1872 Blue Horse was born in 1820; SHON-KEE-TOH.
"His principal object in life was to try to make others happy around him". Oglala Lakota Chief Blue Horse (1822-1908), Sunka Wakan To, was the second son of Old Chief Smoke and Burnt Her Woman, and the biological brother of Chief Big Mouth. Chief Red Cloud was the adopted brother of Chief Blue Horse. Red Cloud was adopted by Old Chief Smoke, his maternal uncle, around 1825 at the age of three after Red Cloud’s parents died. Blue Horse and Red Cloud were raised as brothers and mentored by Old Chi
He witnessed the meeting of Chief Dull Knife; The Treaty of Fort Laramie was an agreement between the United States and the Lakota nation, signed in 1868 at Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, guaranteeing to the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills, and further land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. The Powder River Country was to be henceforth closed to all whites. The treaty ended Red Cloud's War. The treaty included articles intended to "insure the civilisation" of the Lakota; financial incentives for them to farm land and become competitive - and stipulations that minors should be provided with an "English education" at a "mission building". To this end the US government included in the treaty that white teachers, blacksmiths and a farmer, a miller, a carpenter, an engineer and a government agent should take up residence within the reservation. Repeated violations of the otherwise exclusive rights to the land by gold prospectors led to the Black Hills War.

11/10/2023

𝐎𝐥𝐚 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐱𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐭 (𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟖, 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟕 – 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐𝟖, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟕) 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐢𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐬 (𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐏). 🔥
Rexroat was born in Argonia, Kansas, to a Euro-American father and an Oglala mother. The family moved to South Dakota when she was young, and she spent at least part of her youth on the Pine Ridge Reservation. She attended public school in Wynona, Oklahoma, for a time, and graduated from the St. Mary's Episcopal Indian School in Springfield, South Dakota, in 1932. Rexroat initially enrolled in a teachers college in Chadron, Nebraska, but left before completing her degree to work for what is now the Bureau of Indian Affairs for a year. She earned a bachelor's degree in art from the University of New Mexico in 1939. After college, she again worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Gallup, New Mexico for a year.
Rexroat next worked for engineers building airfields, where she decided to learn how to fly. In order to do so, she would need her own airplane or to join the WASPs. Selecting the latter, she moved to Washington, D.C., with her mother and sisters, and was also employed at the Army War College. Rexroat then went for WASP training in Sweetwater, Texas, and was assigned the dangerous job of towing targets for aerial gunnery students at Eagle Pass Army Airfield after her graduation. She also helped transport cargo and personnel. When the WASPs were disbanded in December 1944, she joined the Air Force, where she served for ten years as an air traffic controller at Kirkland Air Force Base in New Mexico during the Korean War. She continued to work as an air traffic controller for the Federal Aviation Administration for 33 years after her time in the Air Force Reserves was complete.
In 2007 she was inducted into the South Dakota Aviation Hall of Fame.
Rexroat died in June 2017 at the age of 99. Immediately before her death she was the last surviving WASP in South Dakota and one of 275 living WASPs out of the original 1,074. Several months after her death, the airfield operations building at Ellsworth Air Force Base was named after her.

11/10/2023

My grandma posing for the camera. She is of the Mi'kmaq tribe which is Native to America. ~Circa 1930.

11/09/2023

𝐸𝑚𝑖𝑙 𝐽. 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝐿𝑎𝑠𝑡, 𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑅. 𝐿𝑢𝑡𝑧 𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑜 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑛, 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝐷𝑎𝑘𝑜𝑡𝑎 - 𝑌𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝐷𝑎𝑘𝑜𝑡𝑎 - 𝑐𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑎 1937
Note: Emil J. Comes Last was born in 1932, in Cannon Ball community on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, the son of Thomas Comes Last & Lucy Ireland. Emil J. Comes Last served with the U.S. Army in the Korean War, and died in Stillwater, Minnesota in 1990.

11/09/2023

Keanu Reeves was abandoned by his father at 3 years old and grew up with 3 different stepfathers. He is dyslexic. His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident. His daughter died at birth. His wife died in a car accident. His best friend, River Phoenix, died of an overdose. His sister has leukemia.
And with everything that has happened, Keanu Reeves never misses an opportunity to help people in need. When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants; One cried because he would lose his house if he did not pay $20,000 and on the same day Keanu deposited the necessary amount in the woman's bank account; He also donated stratospheric sums to hospitals.
In 2010, on his birthday, Keanu walked into a bakery and bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery, and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him.
After winning astronomical sums for the Matrix trilogy, the actor donated more than $50 million to the staff who handled the costumes and special effects - the true heroes of the trilogy, as he called them.
He also gave a Harley-Davidson to each of the stunt doubles. A total expense of several million dollars. And for many successful films, he has even given up 90% of his salary to allow the production to hire other stars.
In 1997 some paparazzi found him walking one morning in the company of a homeless man in Los Angeles, listening to him and sharing his life for a few hours.
Most stars when they make a charitable gesture they declare it to all the media. He has never claimed to be doing charity, he simply does it as a matter of moral principles and not to look better in the eyes of others.
This man could buy everything, and instead every day he gets up and chooses one thing that cannot be bought: To be a good person.
Keanu Reeves’ father is of Native Hawaiian descent
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11/09/2023

The eagle catcher. A Hidatsa man. Photo by Edward Curtis. 1908

11/08/2023

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."