Pow Wow Nation (2024)

29/02/2024

“Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness, and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again. In that day, there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom. I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be one.” – Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux Chief (This statement was taken from Crazy Horse as he sat smoking the Sacred Pipe with Sitting Bull for the last time, four days before he was assassinated.)

28/02/2024

“The true Indian does not set any price either on his property or on his labor. His generosity is only limited by his strength and ability. He considers it an honor to be chosen for difficult or dangerous service and would think it shameful to ask for a reward.
Teton Sioux Chief 1837 -1918
John Grass's English name came from the Dakota "Pezi," meaning "Field of Grass"; he also was sometimes called Mato Wtakpe (Charging Bear).
He was a son of Grass, a Sioux leader of the early nineteenth century.
He spoke a number of Dakota dialects as well as English, so he was one of the few peaople in the Dakotas who could communicate with nearly everyone else.
Indian agent Major James ("White Hair") McLaughlin set up Grass, Gall, and other Sioux as rival chiefs to Sitting Bull after the latter had surrendered in 1881, in an attempt to break Sitting Bull's influence over the Sioux.
Over Sitting Bull's objections, Grass signed an 1889 agreement that broke up the Great Sioux Reservation.
He probably was bowing to threats by Indian agent McLaughlin that the U.S. government would take the land with or without Sioux consent.
Even after the land was signed over, the government reduced the food allotments on Northern Plains reservations, intensifying poverty and suffering; this action increased tensions just before the massacre of Big Foot's people at Wounded Knee.
For more than three decades, Grass served as head judge in the Court of Indian Offenses of the Standing Rock Reservation.
He died at Standing Rock in 1918.

28/02/2024

During the last decade prior to the establishment of reservations, the dance had achieved prominence as a successful celebration for petitioning supernatural protection in warfare activities. The dance was the property of the Omaha society, a man's organization. Accordingly, participation was restricted to society members and their families. Certain sacred badges of distinction were reserved for outstanding members. Prominent features of the celebration included dancing, oratory, give-aways, ritual drama, and feasting. The song, oratory, and dance pantomine aroused a patriotic fervor while warfare achievements and victories were reenacted. Giveaways, public distributions of gifts by hosts and other prominent persons, served to reinforce social relationships and demonstrate generosity. All ceremonies climaxed with a ritual drama or kettle dance, which included a flamboyant display of dancing with warriors dramatically vanquishing the enemy, symbolized by a pail of cooked dog meat. Typicall y, celebrations also served as protracted social affairs, and lasted well into the night.
"The Omaha Dance in Oglala and Sicangu Sioux History, 1883-1923 by Mark G. Thiel''

27/02/2024

Chiefs of Montana (Piegan or Blackfeet), top row from left to right Running Crane, White Grass, Tail Feather, Coming Over the Hill, and Young Bear Chief Bottom row Four Horses, Little Dog, White Calf, and Little Plume - Choate - 1882

27/02/2024

Little Moon family at the Exposition Universelle in Brussels, Belgium - Oglala Lakota - 1935
*L-R: Francis Little Moon, Joe Little Moon holding baby Wilson Little Moon, Pauline Little Moon in front of her mother, Mrs. Rosa (Iron Teeth) Little Moon, and Gilbert Little Moon.

{Note: This Little Moon family was from the Wounded Knee community on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.}

26/02/2024

My Brothers, you come from men who had vast knowledge of the stars, guided and trained boys into warriors, chiefs, and medicine men, had relationships with plants, animals, and could heal the sick.
This is your lineage, brush yourself off and remember WHO YOU ARE.

26/02/2024

💥💥𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐞, a Cherokee warrior and leader of the Chickamauga was born in one of the Overhill towns on the Tennessee River. He was the son of Attakullakulla, a Cherokee diplomat. He was recognized as the greatest Cherokee military leader, and from a young age, he wanted to be a warrior. He earned the name "Dragging Canoe" after he dragged a canoe as a young boy to prove his strength to his father.

Dragging Canoe became the head warrior of the Overhill town of Malaquo and fought against white settlers who were encroaching on Indian land. He worked to achieve their removal and planned a three-pronged attack against them. However, the Cherokees suffered heavy losses and were ultimately defeated.

Despite many Cherokee leaders arguing against further fighting, Dragging Canoe refused to submit. He established new towns on Chickamauga Creek in the winter of 1776-77 and formed the Chickamauga group, which included discontented members of various tribes. They fought the 1781 "Battle of the Bluffs" near Fort Nashborough and defeated American army troops when they invaded the Chickamauga towns in 1788.

As he aged, Dragging Canoe became a diplomat and worked to preserve Cherokee culture and establish an alliance with the Creeks and Shawnees. In 1791, a federation of Indian forces defeated General Arthur St. Clair, governor of the Northwest Territory. Shortly after a diplomatic mission with the Chickasaws, Dragging Canoe died on March 1, 1792, in the town of Running Water, one of the towns he had helped to found.

25/02/2024

Portrait of Iron White Man, a Sioux Native American, circa 1900.
In 1898 New York photographer Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934) embarked on a deeply personal project, creating a set of prints that rank among the most compelling of her celebrated body of work. Käsebier was on the threshold of a career that would establish her as both the leading portraitist of her time and an extraordinary art photographer. Her new undertaking was inspired by viewing the grand parade of Buffalo Bill's Wild West troupe en route to Madison Square Garden for several weeks of performances.
Käsebier had spent her childhood on the Great Plains, and retained many vivid, happy memories of playing with nearby Native American children. She quickly sent a letter to William "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917), requesting permission to photograph in her studio the Sioux Indians traveling with the show. Within weeks, Käsebier began her unique and special project photographing the Indian men, women, and children, formally and informally. Friendships developed, and her photography of these Native Americans continued for more than a decade.Profile portrait of Iron White Man, who wears two strings of beads, a circular ring on his head, a tailored shirt, and a vest

25/02/2024

Navajo Code Talkers❤️

This Navajo Code Talkers monument is located in Window Rock, Ariz. The monument pays tribute to the Navajo Code Talkers, a small band of warriors who created an unbreakable code from their Native language and changed the course of modern history.

24/02/2024

"I am an old woman now. The buffaloes and black-tail deer are gone, and our Indian ways are almost gone. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that I ever lived them.
My little son grew up in the white man's school. He can read books, and he owns cattle and has a farm. He is a leader among our Hidatsa people, helping teach them to follow the white man's road.
He is kind to me. We no longer live in an earth lodge, but in a house with chimneys, and my son's wife cooks by a stove.
But for me, I cannot forget our old ways.
Often in summer I rise at daybreak and steal out to the corn fields, and as I hoe the corn I sing to it, as we did when I was young. No one cares for our corn songs now.
Sometimes in the evening I sit, looking out on the big Missouri. The sun sets, and dusk steals over the water. In the shadows I see again to see our Indian village, with smoke curling upward from the earth lodges, and in the river's roar I hear the yells of the warriors, and the laughter of little children of old.
It is but an old woman's dream. Then I see but shadows and hear only the roar of the river, and tears come into my eyes. Our Indian life, I know, is gone forever."
Waheenee - Hidatsa (North Dakota).!

24/02/2024

From the 16th through the 19th centuries, the population of Native Americans declined in the following ways: epidemic diseases brought from Europe; violence and warfare at the hands of European explorers and colonists, as well as between tribes; displacement from their lands; internal warfare, enslavement; and a high rate of intermarriage. Most mainstream scholars believe that, among the various contributing factors, epidemic disease was the overwhelming cause of the population decline of the American natives because of their lack of immunity to new diseases brought from Europe. With the rapid declines of some populations and continuing rivalries among their nations, Native Americans sometimes re-organized to form new cultural groups, such as the Seminoles of Florida in the 19th century and the Mission Indians of Alta California. Some scholars characterize the treatment of Native Americans by the US as genocide or genocidal whilst others dispute this characterization.

Estimating the number of Native Americans living in what is today the United States of America before the arrival of the European explorers and settlers has been the subject of much debate. While it is difficult to determine exactly how many Natives lived in North America before Columbus, estimates range from a low of 2.1 million (Ubelaker 1976) to 7 million people (Russell Thornton) to a high of 18 million (Dobyns 1983). A low estimate of around 1 million was first posited by the anthropologist James Mooney in the 1890s, by calculating population density of each culture area based on its carrying capacity.

In 1965, the American anthropologist Henry F. Dobyns published studies estimating the original population to have been 10 to 12 million. By 1983, he increased his estimates to 18 million. Historian David Henige criticized higher estimates such as those of Dobyns', writing that many population figures are the result of arbitrary formulas selectively applied to numbers from unreliable historical sources. By 1800, the Native population of the present-day United States had declined to approximately 600,000, and only 250,000 Native Americans remained in the 1890s.
Chicken pox and measles, endemic but rarely fatal among Europeans (long after being introduced from Asia), often proved deadly to Native Americans. Smallpox epidemics often immediately followed European exploration and sometimes destroyed entire village populations. While precise figures are difficult to determine, some historians estimate that at least 30% (and sometimes 50% to 70%) of some Native populations died after first contact due to Eurasian smallpox.[44][45] One element of the Columbian exchange suggests explorers from the Christopher Columbus expedition contracted syphilis from indigenous peoples and carried it back to Europe, where it spread widely.[46] Other researchers believe that the disease existed in Europe and Asia before Columbus and his men returned from exposure to indigenous peoples of the Americas, but that they brought back a more virulent form.

In the 100 years following the arrival of the Spanish to the Americas, large disease epidemics depopulated large parts of the Eastern Woodlands in the 15th century. In 1618–1619, smallpox killed 90% of the Native Americans in the area of the Massachusetts Bay. Historians believe many Mohawk in present-day New York became infected after contact with children of Dutch traders in Albany in 1634. The disease swept through Mohawk villages, reaching the Onondaga at Lake Ontario by 1636, and the lands of the western Iroquois by 1679, as it was carried by Mohawk and other Native Americans who traveled the trading routes. The high rate of fatalities caused breakdowns in Native American societies and disrupted generational exchange of culture.
After European explorers reached the West Coast in the 1770s, smallpox rapidly killed at least 30% of Northwest Coast Native Americans. For the next 80 to 100 years, smallpox and other diseases devastated native populations in the region. Puget Sound area populations, once estimated as high as 37,000 people, were reduced to only 9,000 survivors by the time settlers arrived en masse in the mid-19th century. The Spanish missions in California did not have a large effect on the overall population of Native Americans because the small number of missions was concentrated in a small area along the southern and central coast. The numbers of indigenes decreased more rapidly after California ceased to be a Spanish colony, especially during the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th (see chart on the right).

Smallpox epidemics in 1780–1782 and 1837–1838 brought devastation and drastic depopulation among the Plains Indians. By 1832, the federal government established a smallpox vaccination program for Native Americans (The Indian Vaccination Act of 1832). It was the first federal program created to address a health problem of Native Americans

24/02/2024

This is Matrix movie star Keanu Reeves.
His father abandoned him 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 battled leukemia.
No bodyguards, no luxury houses. Keanu lives in an ordinary apartment likes wandering around town and is often seen riding a subway in NYC.
When filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard a conversation between two costume assistants, one crying as he would lose his house if he did not pay $20,000 - On the same day, Keanu deposited the necessary amount in his bank account. In his career, he has donated large sums to hospitals including $75 million of his earnings from “The Matrix” to charities.
In 2010, on his birthday, Keanu walked into a bakery & 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.
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.
Sometimes the ones most broken from the inside are the ones most willing to help others.
This man could buy everything, and instead every day he gets up and chooses one thing that cannot be bought
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23/02/2024

There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth.

~ Floyd ‘Red Crow’ Westerman (Dakota Sioux) actor, activist, singer

23/02/2024

The Apache are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Mimbreño, Ndendahe (Bedonkohe or Mogollon and Nednhi or Carrizaleño and Janero), Salinero, Plains (Kataka or Semat or "Kiowa-Apache") and Western Apache (Aravaipa, Pinaleño, Coyotero, Tonto). Distant cousins of the Apache are the Navajo, with whom they share the Southern Athabaskan languages. There are Apache communities in Oklahoma and Texas, and reservations in Arizona and New Mexico. Apache people have moved throughout the United States and elsewhere, including urban centers. The Apache Nations are politically autonomous, speak several different languages, and have distinct cultures.
Historically, the Apache homelands have consisted of high mountains, sheltered and watered valleys, deep canyons, deserts, and the southern Great Plains, including areas in what is now Eastern Arizona, Northern Mexico (Sonora and Chihuahua) and New Mexico, West Texas, and Southern Colorado. These areas are collectively known as Apacheria.
The Apache tribes fought the invading Spanish and Mexican peoples for centuries. The first Apache raids on Sonora appear to have taken place during the late 17th century. In 19th-century confrontations during the American-Indian wars, the U.S. Army found the Apache to be fierce warriors and skillful strategists.

22/02/2024

RARE and magnificent hand-tinted portrait of Northern Cheyenne Chief Two Moon, circa 1879. A headdress of 80 or so feathers would be worn only by a respected warrior. An eagle has 12 tail feathers, and probably only the longest four feathers were utilized. Two Moon led his band at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in June 1876. In April 1877, he surrendered to Col. Nelson A. Miles, commander of Fort Keogh in eastern Montana.
Chief Two Moon met with Pres. Woodrow Wilson in 1914, and advocated several times in Washington for better conditions on Montana's Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Photographer L.A. Huffman and Chief Two Moon were friends. The print was tinted at Huffman's Miles City studio, although the photo was taken by S.J. Morrow. My favorite Two Moon story is in the fourth comment on my page.

22/02/2024

(Born 1863-Died December 18, 1923)
a.k.a. George Jackson and Buffalo Sundown,
Waaya-Tonah-Toesits-Kahn (meaning “Earth Left by the Setting Sun”), also spelled We-ah-te-nato-ots-ha (meaning “Blanket of the Sun”)
Jackson Sundown, a nephew of Chief Joseph, was with him on the flight of the Nez Perce in 1877. He was the first native American to win a World Championship Bronc Rider title in 1916, at the age of 53, more than twice the age of the other competitors who made it to the final round. He is also the oldest person to ever win a rodeo world championship title. He was posthumously inducted into the Pendleton Round-Up Hall of Fame in 1972, into the National Cowboys of Color Museum and Hall of Fame in 1983, and the American Indian Athletes Hall of Fame in 1994.
Historical accounts of his life cite that Sundown, at a young age, displayed the traits of an athlete, riding his Appaloosa pony from the time he could walk. At age 14, his knack for handling horses earned him the privilege of caring for his tribes’ horses and herding them when they moved camp during the turbulent 1877 Nez Perce War. On Aug. 9, 1877, the daring young Sundown displayed his stealth when his people were ambushed by the forces of the U.S. cavalry at Big Hole in southwestern Montana territory where they suffered many casualties, including women and children. Waaya-Tonah-Toesits-Kahn, although badly burned, outwitted the enemy and survived by hiding under a buffalo robe after they had torched his mother’s teepee where he had been sleeping. Another legendary account of Sundown’s bravery was when the Nez Perce, en route to Sitting Bulls camp in Canada, stopped to rest near Snake Creek in the Bear Paw Mountains just 40 miles south of the Canadian border. Unbeknownst to the Nez Perce, Brigadier General Nelson H. Miles had been dispatched to find and intercept them. Combined U.S. forces made an early morning surprise attack on the Nez Perce and after a three day stand-off, the war weary Chief Joseph surrendered and declared he would “fight no more forever.” Sundown, again displaying his prowess as a renegade Nez Perce warrior, escaped, although being wounded, “by clinging to the side of his horse so that it appeared riderless.” Despite having no blankets or food, he and a small band of survivors made their way to Sitting Bull’s camp in Canada. Sundown is said to have lived in hiding with Sitting Bull and those that defeated General George Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn as a war criminal for two years

21/02/2024

Unidentified man (Cayuse) and Billy McKay (Cayuse/Euro-American), in Umatilla County, Oregon - 1900

21/02/2024

Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Floyd Red Crow Westerman reached a mass international audience as the wise, old Sioux chief Ten Bears in Dances with Wolves (1990); he played the recurring role of the codebreaker Albert Hosteen on The X-Files (1995-99) and served as Indian chiefs, elders and shamans in dozens of other films and TV programmes.
His deeply etched features personified the history of an entire people for western audiences. He was described by his friend Dennis Banks, the founder in 1968 of the American Indian Movement (AIM), as “the greatest cultural ambassador that Indian America ever had” and by Indian Country Today newspaper as “one of the most recognisable American Indians of the 20th century”.

20/02/2024

Koon Kah Za Chy (Apache John), a Naishan Dene or Kiowa Apache Chief. 1908-1913. Photo by Joseph Kossuth Dixon.

20/02/2024

Rodney Arnold Grant (born March 9, 1959) is an American actor.
Rodney Arnold Grant, a Native American, was raised on the Omaha Reservation in Macy, Nebraska. He is probably most well known for his role as "Wind In His Hair" in the 1990 film Dances with Wolves. He has also appeared in other films such as John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, Wild Wild West, Geronimo: An American Legend, White Wolves III: Cry of the White Wolf, Wagons East!, The Substitute, War Party, and Powwow Highway. In television, he played the part of "Chingachgook" in the series Hawkeye that aired in 1994-1995. He has also had guest roles in a television series such as Due South, Two, and the Stargate SG-1 episode "Spirits". He also portrayed the famous warrior Crazy Horse in the 1991 television movie Son of the Morning Star.
Rodney Arnold Grant is a member of the Omaha tribe of Nebraska. He has been very active in youth activities and had served on the Native American Advisory Board for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. He has five grown children, three from a previous marriage, and two from previous relationships. He currently resides in southern California.
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
Via: Native American Culture Regions

19/02/2024

𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗗𝘂𝗰𝗸, 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗱𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗳𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲, 𝟭𝟵𝟮𝟱
Many Native American tribes lives on small pieces of land, but the Blackfoot tribe did not. They lived on a very stretched out area of North America, from Montana to the Saskatchewan valley, Canada. In the 18th century, the Blackfoot tribe moved on foot to the West, using their dogs to move their belongings.
The tribe was more progressive than others, having used fi****ms and horses dating back as early as 1750. This was how the tribe won battles over smaller, weaker groups.

19/02/2024

𝗜𝗻𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗳𝗲'𝘀 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝘁, 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝟭𝟴𝟵𝟬𝘀
Robert E. Peary went to Greenland in 1891 along with his wife, Josephine, and Frederick A. Cook, an explorer who would guide them. Peary wanted to spend time with the isolated tribe known as the "Arctic Highlanders" whom he has made contact with. They liked him and helped him as he explored their land.
During his time there, he snapped photos of their lives and how they survive in such harsh conditions. This photo that Peary took shows how an Inuit man is warming his wife's feet.

18/02/2024

Lakota / Sioux lived a peaceful way before they were forced to live on Reservations 😔😟

18/02/2024

“SIOUX URCHINS, Boy and Girl,” was L.A. Huffman’s title for the 1879-80 photo. The studio portrait of two young children was among the first photographs taken by Huffman after arriving at Fort Keogh in Eastern Montana. The boy had a ring in each ear. The young girl wore a hair-pipe or dentalium shell choker. Her leggings and moccasins had extensive bead or quill work. Northern Cheyenne and Sioux were both at Fort Keogh at the time, and apparel may have been traded.
The photo used the old collodion wet-plates, and a clear photograph required no movement for some seconds. L.A. Huffman served as a Custer County commissioner, and in 1893 was elected to the Montana House of Representatives. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt knew Huffman and displayed six large Huffman prints in the White House. Huffman was buried in Miles City, Montana.

17/02/2024

In 1925, diphtheria affected an isolated village in Alaska. Due to the severe cold, it was not possible to transport the medicines by plane and ship, so the transport of the medicines to the town of Noma was organized with the help of mushers (guides or drivers of a dog sled team).
About 1120 miles (1800 kilometers) had to be covered in five days. There were several teams and they took turns on different sections. The Norwegian Gunnar Kasen and his main dog Balto were the first to bring the serum to the village.
It turned out that Kasen had not made a mistake in choosing the main dog, because when the team had an accident, Balto helped his musher, saving him from certain death.
When the storm reached its peak and visibility became low they crossed 85 km. Balto is considered a hero, and in 1925 a monument was erected to him in Central Park in New York.
He was truly a hero, like all the other dogs during this mission. However, the dog that did the most difficult part of the work was Togo who crossed the longest distance 260 miles (418 kilometers). He was part of Leonardo Seppala team of dogs. Togo is the husky, in the photo.

17/02/2024

American Horse (L) Red Cloud (R), Lakota Chiefs

16/02/2024

A full-blooded Oneida from the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Canada, actor Graham Greene is best known for playing Native American roles; his characters are almost always positive and very dignified. Though he has provided a strong role model and has proved that there is a place for Native American actors outside the Western genre, he considers himself neither a spokesperson for Native rights, nor a great trail blazer paving the way for other Native American actors in film and television. Instead Greene prefers to think of himself simply as an actor capable of playing any role that comes his way, and indeed, in the rare instances when he is cast in other parts, such as that of a New York detective in Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995), he excels.
Unlike other performers, Greene did not grow up with a burning desire to act. Rather his becoming an actor was literally due to the luck of the draw. It happened in the early '70s when he was working as a sound engineer for a popular Canadian band. One of his cohorts thought Greene might make a good actor, but Greene was indifferent. They discussed the matter for a week before they decided to cut a deck of cards. If he lost, he would become an actor. Shortly thereafter, Greene found work on the London stage. It took almost a decade of hard work -- he made his feature film debut in the 1983 sports drama Running Brave -- before he made a name for himself with his Oscar-nominated performance as Kicking Bird in Kevin Costner's epic directorial debut Dances With Wolves (1990). Following his success with Costner's film, Greene became a guest star on various television series, notably L.A. Law, Murder She Wrote, and Northern Exposure, where he had a recurring role as a medicine man/teacher. He also appeared in the PBS American Playhouse production Where the Spirit Lives (1990) and in the well-wrought HBO film The Last of His Tribe (1992). In 1992, he also was excellent as a Sioux policeman who acts as a foil/teacher to starchy FBI agent Val Kilmer in Michael Apted's Thunderheart (1992). In addition to a continued but sporadic film career that included the 1997 Canadian release Wounded, in which he played a recently rehabilitated alcoholic detective who helps solve the murder of a slain forest ranger, Greene appeared on-stage -- most frequently in Toronto -- and did television work that included hosting documentaries. In March of 1997, Greene was reportedly hospitalized following a several hours-long stand-off with Toronto police. Depressed over family and other personal matters, Greene was suicidal and according to the person who called the police, he had guns in his home, though no weapons were used during the encounter which ended peacefully. Greene shares his name with a renowned British author and essayist. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

16/02/2024

Seneca Woman Ah-Weh-Eyu (Beautiful Flower), 1908.
The Seneca are a group of indigenous, historic Iroquoian speakers south of Lake Ontario, one of the Five Great Lakes in North America. Their nation was the furthest west of the Six Nations or Iroquois League (Haudenosaunee) in New York before the American Revolution.
A Seneca oral tradition says that the tribe originated in a village called Nundawao, near the southern end of Lake Canandaigua, at South Hill. Near South Hill stands the 865-foot (264 m) Bare Hill, known to Seneca as Genundowa. Bare Hill is part of the Bare Hill Unique Area, which began to be acquired by the state in 1989. Bare Hill is the site of a Seneca (or Seneca-ancestor) fortress.

15/02/2024

DOG TRAVOIS. Travois were hauled by dogs before horses started appearing on the Northern Plains by the late 1600s. Horses, named “elk dogs” or “big dogs” by some tribes, could carry more weight, thus allowing larger tipis for nomadic tribes. Horses also revolutionized hunting and warfare techniques.
The elderly woman, perhaps a Lakota Sioux named Red Thunder, reportedly held the staff of her husband, Little Bull, and posed in her best regalia. A finely-crafted miniature buffalo was on the dog’s back. (PC users click click image to better see detail.) What appeared to be a dead skunk was in the travois. Dating from about 1910-20 or so, the photo by Frank Fiske of Fort Yates (ND) was found at the Buffalo Bill Museum

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