Cherokee Native Americans

10/08/2024

“Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children."~Crazy Horse

10/07/2024

Red Leaf (Wazhazha Brule)Red Leaf was born about 1815, and he crops up in one of the Rosebud Agency censuses, maybe 1886 or '87 (with a 30 year-old wife!), but I can't find him after that. Perhaps Ephriam can help with his census data.
He was a presumably younger brother of Scattering Bear (Mato Wayuhi - I've had wayuhi explained as like a bear digging in the earth and scattering roots). They belonged to one of the leading families within the Wazhazha band, a large tiwahe with very extensive connections. As early as 1844-45 trader David Adams considered Scattering Bear as the leader of one constituent sub-band of the Wazhazhas. SB dealt directly with Adams and rival traders as the 'chief' of this group. In January 1846 a group of Brule chiefs - they seem largely to be Wazhazhas - signed a petition to be presented to the President, requesting recompense for the loss of resources to the emigrant traffic along the North Platte River.

10/05/2024

Redbone was a Native American rock band. They reached the Top 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974 with their single, "Come and Get Your Love". The single went certified Gold selling over a million copies. It also made Redbone the first Native American band to reach the top five on the Billboard Hot 100, with the song reaching number 5.[1] Redbone achieved hits with their singles "We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee", "The Witch Queen of New Orleans", "Wovoka", and "Maggie" in the United States, although these singles were more successful overseas

10/05/2024

The Mount Rushmore occupation by the American Indian Movement (June 6, 1971). Attempted to bring attention to the United States violations of the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868), approximately 40 protesters made it to the top of the monument armed with baseball bats.While there, they erected a ceremonial altar behind Roosevelt’s head. The superintendent of the memorial sent 50 rangers and deputies to try to end the occupation.
After a 12-hour protest, nine men and 11 women were arrested. Once they were handcuffed, the journey back down was difficult. AIM leader Russell Means shared the details in his book Where White Men Fear to Tread.
“They shoved billy clubs between our cuffed arms, and a policeman took each end of it and dragged us, face-up, down the mountain,” he wrote. “The trouble was that there wasn’t a path. The way down—normally about a ten-minute jaunt—includes huge boulders that must be climbed or jumped. We said nothing, and we did nothing to help our captors as they dragged us over rocks and twigs, anything they could find to rip us up.”
The protesters demanded jury trials and argued they were not trespassing because of the 1868 treaty, which affirmed the Black Hills as sacred land. The federal judge, a landowner in the Black Hills, recused himself, and the charges eventually were dismissed.

10/04/2024

Native American athletes excelled at the 1912 Olympics in Sweden. Represented by Jim Thorpe (Sac & Fox), Lewis Tewanima (Hopi), and Andrew Sockalexis (Penobscot Nation), Thorpe won gold in the Decathlon/Pentathlon, Lewis won silver in the 10,000m run, and Sockalexis finished 4th in the marathon.

10/03/2024

Wes Studi is a native American Cherokee actor and Vietnam veteran.You may have seen him in a few movies such as "Last of the Mohicans" or "Dances with Wolves". Aside from the movies, he is an activist for both Native Americans and wounded combat veterans.
His first language was Cherokee an Iroquoian language and he didn't learn English until he started grade school.
His native language is an endangered language.
In fact, most of the indigenous languages in the Americas are endangered.
More than one thousand separate languages still spoken in the Americas and most of these languages will be extinct by the end of the next century.
Thank you for your service Wes!

10/03/2024

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In the 2000s, Elliott appeared in films such as We Were Soldiers (2002), Hulk (2003), and Ghost Rider (2007). He made a significant impact with his role in A Star Is Born (2018), receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Recently, Elliott won a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance in the series 1883 (2021–2022).
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10/02/2024

Kills Two, a Brulé Sioux medicine man, ca. 1900

10/01/2024

Peta-La-Sha-Ra II (Man Chief). Pawnee man. 1858.

09/30/2024

Photo of a late-19th-century Canadian Blackfoot brave - one of the prime examples of a northern Plains Indian ready for the hunt or for battle. All studded out with his brass-tacked 1873 Wi******er carbine and belt full of cartridges, he’s also equipped with a heavily tacked knife scabbard, riding quirt, a necklace and bracelet, and a unique breastplate, made up of northwest trade gun brass serpentine sideplates. Even his pony’s U.S. Cavalry headstall has had brass tacks added for a more personal look.

09/29/2024

𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗢𝘀𝗵𝗸𝗼𝘀𝗵 (𝟭𝟳𝟵𝟱-𝟭𝟴𝟱𝟴) 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟭𝟴𝟮𝟳 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵. 𝗛𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗢𝗻𝗲𝗶𝗱𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗬𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻-𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀.
𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗢𝘀𝗵𝗸𝗼𝘀𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻

09/28/2024

THE LAKOTA, KILLS FIRST c.1898:
Courtesy~Smithsonian