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26/06/2024

Saguaro gatherers, Maricopa tribe, Arizona. 1907. Photo by Edward Curtis.

25/06/2024

Tzi-Kal-Tza, son of Captain William Clark, seated in field holding rifle, Montana, probably between 1866 and 1867
"The date of this man's birth was either about June, 1806, or March, 1807... He was engaged in the Nez Perce Indian War in Idaho and Montana, and was made prisoner with Chief Joseph at the Battle of Bear Paw Mountain. He was sent with Joseph and other prisoners to Indian Territory, where he died in 1878 or 1879, aged about 72 years old...During my residence in Montana I often met this half blood son of Captain Clark...With an appreciation of the historical interest which I would some day attach to this man, I persuaded him to have his photograph taken...The Hon. Granville Stuart, the first Secretary of the Historical Society of Montana, who was well acquainted with Captain Clark's son, has confirmed my declaration that this is his picture, and none other,..." -- Nathaniel Pitt Langford, St. Paul, Minnesota.

22/04/2024

At mealtimes, the Comanche elder Niyah stressed that Comanches ate meals when they were hungry. In their old free nomadic lifestyle, the families might eat around four times in a day. Men, women, and children all ate together with the food placed on a dried rawhide in the center of the seated family. Even visitors were warmly welcomed.
During the 1930's, Mrs. John Barnes, who was a white resident living near Comanche people shared the following observation of their life and food preparation:
"All Indian houses had tepees near them . . . [T]he women built arbors which were made of poles and willow brush. Here the Indians lived through the summer. "
Of their meals, she added "Another way the beef was prepared was to cut the fat into small pieces, mix it thoroughly with sugar and a little flour, and fry it for a short while. Lots of Indians ate kidneys raw, but when cooked they wanted them cooked well done. Most of their bread was bought bread and they used crackers as bread some. Later they made bread from wheat flour called grease bread which tasted pretty good. Steak was cut into small squares, fried, and gravy was made with this meat. Indians are fond of fruit, cookies, and candy."
Impressive picture of the strong Comanche woman named Uwat, circa 1930. Photograph by the noted American photographer Edward S. Curtis.
Courtesy of the North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis, Northwestern University Library, and the U. S. Library of Congress.

19/04/2024

"Nature's Art work". A Navajo woman in the Southwest. 1915. Photo by William J. Carpenter.

16/04/2024

Beyond suffering: The Red Nation will rise and be a blessing to a sick world, a world full of unfulfilled promises, selfishness and separation. There will be a will to have a new way of seeing and thinking the colors of men who will come together under the Sacred Tree of Life, and the whole Earth will become a new circle. On that day, there will be those among the Lakota that will bring knowledge and compression of unity among all living things and young white people will come to my people to demand this wisdom. I salute the light in your eyes in which the whole Universe dwells. Because when you are in that center inside you and I am that place inside me that has to be only one..
Tashunka-Witco-Untamed Horse (Oglala Lakota War Chief)
(This statement was extrapolated to a close relative early 1900's in Pine Ridge of the Great Man Oglala and present when he was about to smoke the Sacred Pipe with Tatanka Yotake-Yotanka-Bisonte Seated -Who sits for the last time a few days before being Assassinated)

13/04/2024

Bartelda. Apache. 1898. (Colorized) photo by F.A. Rinehart. Source - Boston Public Library

11/04/2024

Minnesota, 1905...

10/04/2024

Pocahontas was born in 1595 in Werowocomoco, Virginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in the Tidewater region of Virginia. Pocahontas was a nickname meaning “playful one” or “ill-behaved child.” She was also known as Matoaka. Pocahontas is famous for saving the life of Captain John Smith when he was captured by her father’s warriors. She married John Rolfe in 1614 and traveled to England with him. She died in England in 1617 at the age of 21.

08/04/2024

Echoes From the Past by Karin Hollebeke

05/04/2024

THE LAKOTA, ROBERT LOOKS TWICE:
This is the same Robert from ABC Diane Sawyer's "Children of the Plains" documentary, filmed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota. He got a college scholarship and is a father himself now.
Courtesy~Pinterest

04/04/2024

"The only thing the world really needs is for every child to grow up in happiness."
- Chief Dan George

04/04/2024

Battle of Little Big Horn, Memoirs of Chief Red Fox (1870-1976) .
"I was six years and fourteen days old at the time of the Custer fight. As it was told to me by my father Chief Black Eagle and my mother White Swan, the sister of Chief Crazy Horse….We left Pine Ridge [Reservation] the eight day of May 1876. Arrived in Montana about June the fifth. My people expected truble they divided up into three different villages. In case of attact they would not be caught in a trap. They knew Custer had left fort Lincolm for the Little Big Horn. Chief Gall and Chief Two-Moons sent word to my uncle Chief Crazy Horse that they were on their way to join him in case of truble with Custer they hatted him for the killing of the fifty three old women men and children and for burning their village several years before [This is a reference to the battle of Wash*ta River, Nov. 27, 1868] and he R***d Black Kettle fourteen year old daughter she gave berth to a boy who is known as Yellow Hawk that they claim is his son from that attact….
On Sunday morning June 25th 1876 Custer…divided his forces into four grupes send Reno to attack my people from the southwest of the Big Horn River. Benteen from the northeast. Godfry and McDugal with the supply train….He told them he would…make the attact at four oclock….About 2 PM…we heard shots fired later we were told that my father and Chief Standing Bear had blocked Captain Benteen from crossing the river. Ghost Dogs, and Crow King had blocked Reno and his men Stinking Bear had Blocked Godfre and McDougal.
About 3 oclock Custer appeared and my uncle Crazy Horse rode out and then retreated like they were afraid. Custer came riding on then. Chief Gall came out to the left side of Custer and Two Moons and his Cheyenns came to the right of Custer. When Custer seen this he started his charge then he dismounted, placed his men on high grounds his horses placed under senteries the Indians made a curcle around him then rode their horses accross the circle kicking up durt [to] stampead his horses. Then the Indians made their attact. Custer bugle sounded for the sentries to bring the horses but they had been killed his bugle sounded for retreat but…most of his men and horses were killed. some said he was the last one to die but that not true. Captain Kegho was the last man to be killed and his horse Comanche was the only horse alive….my people said no one knows who killed [Custer] or when he fell. they say the battle lasted forty minutes….the Indians had better guns than the soldiers good horsemen and knew the country and planed how to fight the battle…."

01/04/2024

Frances Dinsmore making phonographic recordings with a Blackfoot Chief at the Smithsoanian. 1915. Photo by Harris & Ewing.

24/03/2024

Cherokee Women and Their Important Roles:
Women in the Cherokee society were equal to men. They could earn the title of War Women and sit in councils as equals. This privilege led an Irishman named Adair who traded with the Cherokee from 1736-1743 to accuse the Cherokee of having a "petticoat government".
Clan kinship followed the mother's side of the family. The children grew up in the mother's house, and it was the duty of an uncle on the mother's side to teach the boys how to hunt, fish, and perform certain tribal duties. The women owned the houses and their furnishings. Marriages were carefully negotiated, but if a woman decided to divorce her spouse, she simply placed his belongings outside the house. Cherokee women also worked hard. They cared for the children, cooked, tended the house, tanned skins, wove baskets, and cultivated the fields. Men helped with some household chores like sewing, but they spent most of their time hunting.
Cherokee girls learned by example how to be warriors and healers. They learned to weave baskets, tell stories, trade, and dance. They became mothers and wives, and learned their heritage. The Cherokee learned to adapt, and the women were the core of the Cherokee.

20/03/2024

SISTERS, about 1901. Whistler and Hits The One Who Rides The Gray Horse were photographed by Fred E. Miller on the Crow (Apsáalooke) Reservation in Southeastern Montana. Whistler was on the verge of a smile on a cool day. Their dresses were made with the same cotton fabric, their earrings were made from shell.

Miller was adopted into the Crow tribe in 1905. In 1985, “Fred E. Miller: Photographer of the Crows” was published. Text and digital restoration of photo by G.J. Coffrin.

16/03/2024

Vintage Photography of A Beautiful Native American Woman & Child
Photographer & Tribe: Un Known

11/03/2024

Wooden Legs. Cheyenne, Montana, 1913. Photo by Roland W. Reed.

10/03/2024

Inuit girls holding puppies. 1904.

07/03/2024

The medicine man's daughter. Likely Crow. Montana.Early 1900s. Photo by Richard Throssel. Source - University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center. Absolutely gorgeous!!!

06/03/2024

Blackfoot woman and child. Date- [ca. late 1880s] Photographer/Illustrator- Ross, Alexander J., Calgary, Alberta

04/03/2024

Dancing in the firelight. 1907. Photo by Richard Throssel.❤️Thank you for reading and liking the article.

02/03/2024

Beautiful work in progress by native artist Pauline Young.

27/02/2024

Vintage Photography of A Beautiful Native American Woman & Child
Photographer & Tribe:Un Known.

26/02/2024

George Marshall. Umatilla. 1900.

24/02/2024

Chief Peepeechis of the Little Bone Reserve of the Sakimay First Nation near Grenfell, SK. Cree. 1884. Source - University of Saskatchewan Archives.

23/02/2024

A Comanche mother. 1930. Photo by Edward S. Curtis. Source - Library and Archives Canada

21/02/2024

Rare, Old Photos of Native American Women and Children❤

20/02/2024

“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.

19/02/2024

"I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, in my heart he put other and different desires. Each man is good in his sight. It is not necessary for Eagles to be Crows."
- Sitting Bull
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Sources: photograph taken by David F. Berry, circa 1883 / Wikimedia Commons

18/02/2024

There are things to say to our children
Like for example that failure is a great possibility. Fall back and get back up. You learn from this. From no other way.
You need to know how to stay, that’s all. And the pain must be overcome.
We should tell our children that there is time until it runs out, and we always realize it too late.
We should say that there is no winning or losing, and life is not a struggle.
We are supposed to say that evil exists and is inside each and every one of us. We have to know it to manage it.
We should tell our children that a father and a mother are not always a safe haven. Some lighthouses can't provide light.
That without the others we are nothing. Just nothing.
They can be sick. Suffering pushes us forward. And sooner or later it will pass.
We should tell our children that they can fail and live happy anyway. Actually, maybe more so.
It doesn’t matter if the wishes don’t come true, but the important thing is to wish. Until the very end.
You need to tell them that if they don’t get married or have children in life, they can still be happy.
That the world needs their effort to become a beautiful place to live.
Poverty exists and we have to bear it.
They can be what they want. But not at all costs.
That forgiveness exists . And you can give in from time to time, to move forward together.
We should tell our kids they can go far. A very far off. Where we don't see them anymore.
And that we will be here. When they want to come back

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