First Americans
On Red Shawl Day, we bring attention to the relatives who are impacted by the missing and murdered Indigenous peoples crisis. It's a day of remembrance and of commitment to continue our quest for justice. Secretary Deb Haaland
The Reckoning: Native American boarding schools’ painful history unearthed (Part 1)
We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that. — Chief Joseph
List of American Indian Tribes
It’s Victory Day! Lulululu! June 25, 1876 the allied Cheyenne, Lakota, and Arapaho defeated Custer’s 7th Calvary in one of the last battles of the US-Indian wars. Cheyenne women like Buffalo Calf Road Woman fought alongside men.
Ada Blackjack pictured on Wrangel Island with her expedition teammates and the expedition cat.
White Lance, Joseph Horn Cloud, Dewey Beard. Brothers and survivors of the Massacre at Wounded Knee.
Eugene Blackbear Jr. prays before various tribal leaders speak and Gov. Jared Polis signs an executive order Tuesday in Denver.Colorado governor voids 1864 order to kill Native Americans
The Map Of Native American Tribes
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection
Angeline, daughter of Chief Seattle, Seattle Washington, ca. 1891-1895.
"By the time this photo was taken, in the 1890s, her Suquamish and Duwamish people had been exiled to the Port Madison Reservation. White settlers renamed her Princess Angeline or Queen Angeline."
Pacific Northwest History: Native Americans
Native American coming-of-age ritual
244,000 out of 15 million Native Americans were alive by 1920. Or 1.63%.
We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that.
Wooden Leg (Kâhamâxéveóhtáhe) in Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Montana. 1927. He was a Northern Cheyenne warrior who fought against George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
America’s First Code Talkers Were Choctaw Soldiers During WWI 1918 Meuse-Argonne campaign in France Choctaws in training in World War I for coded radio and telephone transmissions
12/25/1837,Seminole Nation,with a force of roughly 400 warriors,defeated the US Military with a force of over 1,000 soldiers at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee Pictured Holata Micco (Billy Bowlegs) who helped lead the Seminole
Dec 26th 1862, 38 Dakota’s were executed! This is the last message from Rattling Runner: “I haven’t killed, wounded or injured a white man or any white persons..& yet today I am set apart for execution.” As each execution, the remaining warriors shouted:”I am here, I’am here!”
America — which prides itself on its ostensible religious freedoms, ball and chained this Lakota wicasa wakan (holy man) in 1880 — for practicing his spirituality.
I see a time of Seven Generations
When all the colors of mankind will gather under theSacred Tree of Life &the wholeEarthwill become one circle again-Crazy Horse-Tasunke Witko
This beautiful sculpture was built by the Irish people in their own country to honor the American Choctaw Indian tribe. They were grateful because in 1847 the Choctaw people sent money to Ireland when they learned that Irish people were starving due to the potato famine.
Pretty Nose — Hero of the Battle of Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876. First female War Chief of the Arapaho Nation
Debbie Reese on Book Bans and Native Representation
Infamous Indian Removal Act was signed by President Andrew Jackson 5/281830, leading to the Trail of Tears
Indian Removal Act: Primary Documents in American History
Native Hawaiians Are Confronting the Legacies of “Indian Boarding Schools”
Fort Stevenson, ND. Between 1883-1890 Dakota Akicita facing a firing squad instead of giving up his Wapaha (Headdress of feathers) while boarding school children are forced to watch
Academy apologizes to Sacheen Littlefeather, who refused an Oscar on Marlon Brando's behalf
“There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only person wasting time is the one who runs around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong.”
American Indian Proverb
11/29/1864, 700 mounted troops kill and mutilate hundreds of unarmed inhabitants of a Cheyenne and Arapaho village at Sand Creek, Colorado Territory. Congressional investigators call it a "foul and dastardly massacre" and condemn the operation's commander, Col John Chivington
1881. Alice Good Horse, Pine Ridge Reservation
Chief Rain-in-the-Face. Hunkpapa Lakota. Early 1900s. Photo by F.B. Fiske. Source/ State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Chief Rain-in-the-Face. Hunkpapa Lakota. Early 1900s. Photo by F.B. Fiske. Source/ State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Chief Left Hand Bear. Oglala Lakota. ca. 1899. Photo by Heyn Photo.
Wild Horse. Comanche, took part in the attack on Adobe Walls
Chief Bad Gun,aka Rushing War Eagle. Taken in the Rosebud Reservation.
Setting Crow. 1872
Apache woman and child. 1904. Library of Congress Archives.
Crow Chief Black Hair and daughter
Tribes used a universal sign language to communicate when trading. There were 5,000 signs. Today, there’s less than a thousand fluent signers.
Cheyenne men wearing body paint for the Sun Dance, a religious ceremony practiced by the Plains Indians — such as the Cheyenne, Sioux, and Cree tribes — in the 19th century.
On December 26, 1862, 38 Dakota warriors were hanged in Mankato, MN under orders of President Abraham Lincoln in the largest mass execution in U.S. history. They built a special scaffold to hang them all at once & made Dakota women, children & elders watch as the crowd cheered
New Zealand Indigenous Maori
Two Mescalero Apache maidnes ready for their comming of age ceremony have ben indentified. The two girls in the photograph by Cameron Phillips are Stella Marden,left and Rosarita Smith.
Eagle Arrow. A Siksika man. Montana. Early 1900s. Glass lantern slide by Walter McClintock. Source - Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
This Blackfoot chief provided one of the most readily recognizable images of a Native American in the world after an impression of his portrait appeared on a common coin, the Indian head nickel. He was born in 1872 near Fort Benton, Montana.
Speel-ye. A Walla Walla man. Early 1900s. Photo by Lee Moorhouse. Source - National Anthropological Archives.