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12/02/2023

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12/01/2023

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12/01/2023

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12/01/2023

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11/30/2023

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11/30/2023

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11/29/2023

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11/27/2023

❤️🌹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

11/27/2023

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11/26/2023

Awesome Viintage Photograph of A Native American Elder
Photographer & Tribe: Un Known

11/25/2023

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11/25/2023

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11/24/2023

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11/23/2023

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11/23/2023

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11/22/2023

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11/22/2023

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11/21/2023

The Sacred Bear-Spear
Many generations ago, even before the Blackfeet used horses as beasts of burden, the tribe was undertaking its autumn migration, when one evening before striking camp for the night it was reported that a dog-sledge or cart belonging to the chief was missing.
To make matters worse, the chief's ermine robe and his wife's buckskin dress, with her sacred elk-skin robe, had been packed in the little cart.
Strangely enough, no one could recollect having noticed the dog during the march.
Messengers were dispatched to the camping-site of the night before, but to no avail.
At last the chief's son, Sokumapi, a boy about twelve years of age, begged to be allowed to search for the missing dog, a proposal to which his father, after some demur, consented.
Sokumapi set out alone for the last camping-ground, which was under the shadows of the Rocky Mountains, and carefully examined the site.
Soon he found a single dog-sledge track leading into a deep gulch, near the entrance to which he discovered a large cave.
A heap of freshly turned earth stood in front of the cave, beside which was the missing cart.
As he stood looking at it, wondering what had become of the dog which had drawn it, an immense grizzly-bear suddenly dashed out.
So rapid was its attack that Sokumapi had no chance either to defend himself or to take refuge in flight.
The bear, giving vent to the most terrific roars, dragged him into the cave, hugging him with such force that he fainted.
When he regained consciousness it was to find the bear's great head within a foot of his own, and he thought that he saw a kindly and almost human expression in its big brown eyes.
For a long time he lay still, until at last, to his intense surprise, the Bear broke the silence by addressing him in human speech.
"Have no fear," said the grizzly.
"I am the Great Bear, and my power is extensive.
I know the circumstances of your search, and I have drawn you to this cavern because I desired to assist you.
Winter is upon us, and you had better remain with me during the cold season, in the course of which I will reveal to you the secret of my supernatural power."
It will be observed that the circumstances of this tale are almost identical with those which relate to the manner in which the Beaver Medicine was revealed to mankind.
The hero of both stories remains during the winter with the animal, the chief of its species, who in the period of hibernation instructs him in certain potent mysteries.
The Bear, having reassured Sokumapi, showed him how to transform various substances into food.
His strange host slept during most of the winter; but when the warm winds of spring returned and the snows melted from the hills the grizzly became restless, and told Sokumapi that it was time to leave the cave.
Before they quitted it, however, he taught the lad the secret of his supernatural power.
Among other things, he showed him how to make a Bear-spear.
He instructed him to take a long stick, to one end of which he must secure a sharp point, to
symbolize the bear's tusks.
To the staff must be attached a bear's nose and teeth, while the rest of the spear was to be covered with bear's skin, painted the sacred color, red.
The Bear also told him to decorate the handle with eagle's feathers and grizzly claws, and in
war-time to wear a grizzly claw in his hair, so that the strength of the Great Bear might go with him in battle, and to imitate the noise a grizzly makes when it charges.
The Bear furthermore instructed him what songs should be used in order to heal the sick, and how to paint his face and body so that he would be invulnerable in battle, and, lastly, told him of the sacred nature of the spear, which was only to be employed in warfare and for curing disease.
Thus if a person was sick unto death, and a relative purchased the Bear-spear, its supernatural power would restore the ailing man to health.
Equipped with this knowledge, Sokumapi returned to his people, who had long mourned him as dead.
After a feast had been given to celebrate his home-coming he began to manufacture the Bear-spear as directed by his friend.
Shortly after his return the Crows made war upon the Blackfeet, and on the meeting of the two tribes in battle Sokumapi appeared in front of his people carrying the Bear-spear on his back.
His face and body were painted as the Great Bear had instructed him, and he sang the battle-songs that the grizzly had taught him.
After these ceremonies he impetuously charged the enemy, followed by all his braves in a solid phalanx, and such was the efficacy of the Bear magic that the Crows immediately took to flight.
The victorious Blackfeet brought back Sokumapi to their camp in triumph, to the accompaniment of the Bear songs.
He was made a war-chief, and ever afterward the spear which he had used was regarded as the palladium of the Blackfoot Indians.
In the spring the Bear-spear is unrolled from its covering and produced when the first thunder is heard, and when the Bear begins to quit his winter quarters; but when the Bear returns to his den to hibernate the spear is once more rolled up and put away.
The greatest care is taken to protect it against injury.
It has a special guardian, and no woman is permitted to touch it

11/21/2023

Ashishishe (c. 1856–1923), known as Curly (or Curley) and Bull Half White, was a Crow scout in the United States Army during the Sioux Wars, best known for having been one of the few survivors on the United States side at the Battle of Little Bighorn. He did not fight in the battle, but watched from a distance, and was the first to report the defeat of the 7th Cavalry Regiment. Afterward a legend grew that he had been an active participant and managed to escape, leading to conflicting accounts of Curly's involvement in the historical record.
Ashishishe was born in approximately 1856 in Montana Territory, the son of Strong Bear (Inside the Mouth) and Strikes By the Side of the Water. His name, variously rendered as Ashishishe, Shishi'esh, etc., has been said to literally mean "the crow", however, this may be a misunderstanding as the Crow word for "crow" is "áalihte". Ashishishe may be a transliteration of the word "shísshia", which means "curly". His death record lists his name as being "Bull Half White (Curly)". He resided on the Crow Reservation in the vicinity of Pryor Creek, and married Bird Woman. He enlisted in the U.S. Army as an Indian scout on April 10, 1876. He served with the 7th Cavalry Regiment under George Armstrong Custer, and was with them at the Battle of Little Bighorn in June of that year, along with five other Crow warrior/scouts: White Man Runs Him, Goes Ahead, Hairy Moccasin, his cousin White Swan, and Half Yellow Face, the leader of the scouts. Custer had divided his force into four separate detachments, keeping a total of 210 men with him. Half Yellow Face and White Swan fought alongside the soldiers of Reno's detachment, and White Swan was severely wounded. Curly, Hairy Moccasin, Goes Ahead and White Man Runs Him went with Custer's detachment, but did not actively participate in the battle; they later reported they were ordered away before the intense fighting began. Curly separated from White Man Runs Him, Hairy Moccasin, and Goes Ahead, and he watched the battle between the Sioux/Cheyenne forces and Custer's detachment from a distance. Seeing the complete extermination of Custer's detachment, he rode off to report the news.
A day or two after the battle, Curly found the Far West, an army supply boat at the confluence of the Bighorn and Little Bighorn Rivers. He was the first to report the 7th's defeat, using a combination of sign language, drawings, and an interpreter. Curly did not claim to have fought in the battle, but only to have witnessed it from a distance; since this first report was accurate,two of the most influential historians of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Walter Mason Camp (who interviewed Curly on several occasions) and John S. Gray, accepted Curly's early account. Later, however, when accounts of "Custer's Last Stand" began to circulate in the media, a legend grew that Curly had actively participated in the battle, but had managed to escape. Later on, Curly himself stopped denying the legend, and offered more elaborate accounts in which he fought with the 7th and had avoided death by disguising himself as a Lakota warrior, leading to conflicting accounts of his involvement. The family story is that he was involved, but when he saw Custer fall, he gutted open a horse and hid inside.
After the Crow Agency had been moved to its current site in 1884, Curly lived there, on the Crow Reservation on the bank of the Little Bighorn River, very close to the site of the battle. He served in the Crow Police. He divorced Bird Woman in 1886, and married Takes a Shield. Curly had one daughter, Awakuk Korita ha Sakush ("Bird of Another Year"), who took the English name Dora.[6] For his Army service, Curly received a U.S. pension as of 1920.
He died of pneumonia in 1923, and his remains were interred in the National Cemetery at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, only a mile from his home.

11/21/2023

Tribal chief Eli Mabel holds the body of his ancestor, Agat Mamete Mabel. Agat Mamete Mabel, was a tribal chief who ruled a remote village in Papua, Indonesia some 250 years ago.
Honored after death with a custom reserved only for important elders and local heroes among the Dani people. It is embalmed and preserved with smoke and animal oils.

11/20/2023

A Sioux boy on a horse. South Dakota. ca. 1895-1899. Photo by Jesse H. Bratley. Source - Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

11/20/2023

The Hidden Apaches: Apache Women
(Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, Apache Women, ca 1903 Courtesy National Archives)
Previous posts discussed some possibilities for how the hidden Apaches disappeared in the Sierra Madre of Mexico. This post continues a series of historical stories about the remnant Apaches from the Geronimo wars hidden in the Sierra Madre of Mexico, some say to this day. How they seemed to disappear in the 1930s is the subject of much speculation. One idea is that they camped with or were assimilated by Mexican tribes even though at the turn of the last century, they were blood enemies. Three of these tribes were the Mountain Pima, the Rarámuri, also known as Tarahumara, and the Tohono O’odham also known as the Papago in the early Spanish records. There is evidence to show that there were connections between the Apaches on the San Carlos Reservation with those hidden in Mexico.
This post considers the role of women among the hidden Apaches. Most of the reports of encounters with Apaches in the Sierra Madre involved women in the early decades of the twentieth century. How were the women able to survive into the twentieth century and the men not? A brief review of the history and culture as it relates to Apache women in the Sierra Madre provides background for an answer. Some information in this discussion provides some of the historical background for the novels Knight’s Odyssey, The Last Warrior, The Odyssey of Geronimo, and a novel to be published in March 2022, The Iliad of Geronimo, A Song of Blood and Fire. Some of the information discussed here is also covered in Apacheria, True Stories of Apache Culture, 1860-1920. The web page, wmichaelfarmer.com provides summaries of the published work.
In 1883 the Chiricahua Apaches in the Sierra Madre agreed to return to San Carlos Reservation after General Crook with his scouts had found them. Crook promised that when they returned they would have their own land on a reservation thus separating them from their western Apache enemies, and their agents would no longer be stealing their rations. Although the Chiricahua leaders had agreed to come in, their people had scattered in every direction to hide from the Blue Coats and the Apache scouts. Even smoke signals from their leaders telling them to come in were not acknowledged because the people thought the scouts were sending smoke trying to trick and wipe them out. Crook was fast running out of food and had to get back to San Carlos or the people with him would go hungry. He allowed the leaders Naiche, Geronimo, Chato, Kaytennae, and Chihuahua to stay out and gather their people before returning to San Carlos while the rest were escorted back to the reservation. Crook made his way out of the Sierra Madre with 325 Chiricahuas which included 52 men and boys old enough to bear arms and 273 women and children. The number of women and children was over five times that of the men and boys old enough to bear arms. By the time the leaders had come in with their people in early 1884, and had chosen to settle at Turkey Creek, there were 521 Chiricahuas including 127 men and boys capable of bearing arms which made the ratio of women to men a little over 4 to 1.
A year later when Geronimo led the Fort Apache Reservation break in May 1885, there were 35 men, eight boys old enough to bear arms, and 101 women and children, or about three women and children for every man. When the Apaches surrendered to General Crook in late March 1886, there were about 2.5 women and children for each man. The breakaway Geronimo-Naiche band that refused to surrender in March, surrendered in late August/early September in 1886. the number of men relative to women and children was about one man for one woman, this after the band had been on the run raiding and making war for five months and had not lost a single warrior killed or capture. Although life on the run was hard, the women and children were able to keep up with their men, and for the men, it was essential that they did. Apache culture was structured so that the men lived poorly without their women, and the same applied to women without their men. At least in the beginning of the twentieth century there were likely two to three times as many women hiding in the Sierra Madre as men.
Apache women were highly valued by their bands. Boys became expert hunters, providers of supplies from raids, and warriors who fought to the death to protect the band. Warriors left their mother’s family when they married and became the workhorses of the girl’s family for hunting and provisions and for providing family revenge in times of war or disputes. This made girls as valuable to the future of a family as boys. From the day Apache girls were freed from their tsach (cradleboard) until they neared the expected time of their menarche, Apache girls were physically conditioned and trained with weapons much like boys. Girls were encouraged to develop their physical strength, learn how to spring on to unsaddled horses, become proficient in archery and rock slinging skills, learn to hunt and stalk game, and learn different ways to escape enemies. Many girls rivaled the fastest boys in foot races and girls and young women were expected to guard the camp and fight off attackers when the men were gone. As they drew near their maturity, they no longer played with boys, but sent their time learning the skills needed to provide for, maintain, and oversee their families.
Even though older girls no longer played with boys, that doesn’t mean some weren’t valued as warriors. Lozen, the sister of the great Apache chief, Victorio, was an unmarried warrior and di-yen (medicine woman) unknown to history until Eve Ball revealed her in 1970 with the publication of In the Days of Victorio. The narrator of In the Days of Victorio, James Kaywaykla, nephew of Lozen, first told Eve Ball about her. Eve was able to confirm his account with other Apaches she interviewed for her oral history records some of which appear in her classic book, Indeh. According to Sherry Robinson in Apache Voices, a book also based on Eve Ball’s files, Lozen was born in the 1840’s, probably in the Warm Springs area of southwestern New Mexico, and was about twenty years younger than Victorio. Her name meant “little sister”.
Kaywaykla told Eve Ball, “Much has been written of the low regard in which Indian women were held. Among my people that was not true. Instead they were respected, protected, and cherished.” Lozen could outrun men and ride like the wind. She was handy with bow and rifle, but the men didn’t resent her. “They were frankly proud of her and her ability. Above all they respected her integrity.” It’s likely that Lozen rode with Nana in the fall of 1881 on his raid to avenge the death of Victorio. In six weeks, Nana’s raid covered over a 1,000 miles, killed up to fifty people, and captured 200 horses and mules while being pursued by more than a thousand soldiers and four hundred civilians.
One of Lozen’s supernatural gifts of Power as a di-yen, was her ability to determine the location of the enemy. She would stand with outstretched arms, palms up, and pray. While turning slowly, her hands would tingle and the palms would change color when they pointed toward the enemy. The closer the enemy came, the more vivid the feeling.
Lozen and Dahteste, another female fighter, were friends who spent three years fighting the White Eyes with Geronimo. According to Charlie Smith, a Mescalero abducted with his mother and two other women by Geronimo’s men, Dahteste was a very good shot and fearless. Both Lozen and Dahteste were often used as Geronimo’s messengers. This suggests that among the hidden Apaches in the Sierra Madre were women warriors of Power (supernatural power) who knew and understood long range weapons, and could apply Apache fighting strategy.
To its detriment, the Army ignored Apache fighting women because soldiers held “squaws” in low regard. John C. Cremony, an Army Captain at Bosque Redondo chided his fellow officers as early as 1868 for failing to recognize Apache women for their fighting ability and numbers. “Many of the women . . . ride like centaurs and handle their rifles with deadly skill. . . In the estimate made, no account is taken of fighting women, who are numerous, well-trained, and desperate, often exhibiting more real courage than the men.”
The evidence above suggests: 1) there were many more women and children taken to the Sierra Madre and may have stayed than men who returned, 2) in their childhood, women were trained to take care of themselves and to fight when needed, and 3) among the women there were some as capable of fighting and raiding as men. The fact that there were children with the Apache women who were hiding in the Sierra Madre suggests that a new generation who knew little about past antagonisms with the tribes around them except what their mothers told them. These children as adults might well have been more likely to intermarry with other tribes when their mothers would not.
When Geronimo and Naiche surrendered to General Miles at Skeleton Canyon, Arizona, September 4, 1886, two men (Atelnietze and Nat-cul-baye), three women, a teenaged boy, and a child disappeared back into Mexico. These Apaches often have been assumed to be the start of the those found in northern Mexico at the turn of the twentieth century. There are other potential sources for the hidden Apaches.
Next week: The Hidden Apaches: How many?
Most of the information here comes from Geronimo by Angie Debo, Indeh by Eve Ball, Nora Henn and Lynda Sánchez, From Cochise to Geronimo, The Chiricahua Apaches 1874-1886, by Edwin R. Sweeney, The Apache Diaries by Grenville Goodwin and Neil Goodwin; The Apache Indians, In search of the Missing Tribe by Helge Ingstad; Western Apache Raiding and Warfare by Grenville Goodwin; and, “Has the Apache Kid’s Daughter Been Found?” by Lynda A. Sánchez, True West Magazine, 20 July 2016.

11/19/2023

Hello everyone, I am 116 years old, I made my own birthday cake with peach cream and filling, I started decorating cakes from 5 years old, I love it, and I can’t wait to grow my baking journey 🥰💕❤️💓🍀

11/18/2023

Today is my birthday 🥰🎂

11/18/2023

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11/16/2023

This was back when it was totally safe to drink the water, anywhere, anytime, without hesitation

11/15/2023

OUR LITTLE BABY GIRL ATTENDS HER FIRST POWWOW 😍.

11/13/2023

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11/13/2023

So cute. Getting ready for the future.

11/12/2023

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY DON'T EVEN GET A WISH! PLEASE WISH ME

11/12/2023

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