We are Native Americans

10/20/2024

Beautiful Native American ElderTribe & Photographer: Un Known

10/20/2024

Mothers will speak lakota to their unborn babies. Talk to them about love, bravery, and wolakota. Our language is sacred and nurturing. This will ensure a future filled with love and compassion, an understanding of lakota values, language and song.When they are born, an unci (grandmother) will clean their mouths out with sage, say prayers, and offer words of comfort, thus passing all her knowledge and wisdom on. Blessing them for their future.
Pregnant mothers never drink or do drugs, never get mad, holler or cuss. Being pregnant in lakota is to "iglusake." To make oneself strong! A beautiful and sacred ceremony.
Wopila to all our mothers that carry our future.
Photo - Stella Yellow Shirt and son Charlie. 1898. Lakota

10/19/2024

Eighteenth-century French-Canadian fur traders called this tribe the Nez Percé ("pierced nose"). The tribe, which originally called itself the Niimíipu, eventually adopted the French name.In 1877, the Nez Percé split into two groups: Those willing to relocate to a reservation and those who refused. Led by Chief Joseph, nearly 3,000 Nez Percé tried to flee to Canada in June 1877, but the U.S. Army pursued and forced them to surrender in October. Today, their reservation is located in central Idaho.
A Nez Percé man named Three Eagles. 1910.
Edward Curtis/Library of Congress

10/17/2024

"Nettie Morris"Nez Perce
1900

10/17/2024

Daughters of a Navajo silversmith. ca. 1930-1940. Photo by Frasher's Fotos. 🪶🪶

10/16/2024

Walla Walla woman Estelle Speel-ye. - Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) 1850s-1930s. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

10/14/2024

10/14/2024

You guys are great!
We need a big Aho 🪶
10..... Aho...!!!.

10/13/2024

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” —Elvis Presley, Cherokee

10/11/2024

Adam Beach (born November 11, 1972) He is Saulteaux Anishinaabe/Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles as Victor Joseph in Smoke Signals; Frank Fencepost in Dance Me Outside; Tommy on Walker, Texas Ranger; Kickin' Wing in Joe Dirt; U.S. Marine Corporal Ira Hayes in Flags of Our Fathers; Private Ben Yahzee in Windtalkers; Dr. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee; NYPD Detective Chester Lake in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; and Officer Jim Chee in the film adaptations of Skinwalkers, Coyote Waits and A Thief of Time. He starred in the Canadian 2012–2014 series Arctic Air and played Slipknot in the 2016 film Su***de Squad. He also performed as Squanto in Disney's historical drama film Squanto: A Warrior's Tale. Most recently he has starred in Hostiles (2017) as Black Hawk and the Netflix original film Juanita (2019) as Jess Gardiner and Edward Nappo in Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog.

10/11/2024

Native American history ♥️

10/10/2024

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