Empowered Native Nations

03/08/2026

03/08/2026

🎂The beloved actor Sam Elliott was born in Sacramento, California on this day in 1944. He turns 81 today! 🤠 🎉❤️
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Samuel Pack Elliott (born August 9, 1944) is an American actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award and a National Board of Review Award.
He has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Emmy Awards. Elliott was cast in the musical drama A Star Is Born (2018), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding prizes at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards. He also won a National Board of Review Award. Elliott starred as Shea Brennan in the American drama miniseries 1883 (2021–2022), for which he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie.
Elliott is known for his distinctive lanky physique, full mustache, and deep, sonorous voice. He began his acting career with minor appearances in The Way West (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), season five of Mission: Impossible, and guest-starred on television in the Western Gunsmoke (1972) before landing his first lead film role in Frogs (1972). His film breakthrough was in the drama Lifeguard (1976). Elliott co-starred in the box office hit Mask (1985) and went on to star in several Louis L'Amour adaptations such as The Quick and the Dead (1987) and Conagher (1991), the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film. He received his second Golden Globe and first Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Buffalo Girls (1995). His other film credits from the early 1990s include as John Buford in the historical drama Gettysburg (1993) and as Virgil Earp in the Western Tombstone (also 1993). In 1998, he played the Stranger in The Big Lebowski.
In the 2000s, Elliott appeared in supporting roles in the drama We Were Soldiers (2002) and the superhero films Hulk (2003) and Ghost Rider (2007). In 2015, he guest-starred on the series Justified, which earned him a Critics' Choice Television Award, and in 2016 began starring in the Netflix series The Ranch. Elliott subsequently had a lead role in the comedy-drama The Hero.
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03/07/2026

Itázipčho Lakota Chief Spotted Eagle. 1880. Montana. Photo by L.A. Hufman. Source - Montana Historical Society.

03/04/2026

Very worth reading❤️
Actor, film director, film producer and musician Keanu Charles Reeves (Keanu Charles Reeves),
Missed the first 20 minutes of the party dedicated to the end of filming of his new movie at one of the clubs in New York.
He waited patiently in the rain to be let in.
No one recognized him.
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The club owner said: “I didn't even know Keanu was standing in the rain waiting to get in - he didn't say anything to anyone.”
"He travels by public transport."
"He easily communicates with homeless people on the streets and helps them."
- He was only 60 years old (September 2, 1964)
- He can only eat hot dogs in the park, sitting among normal people.
- After filming one of the "Matrix", he gave all the stuntmen a new motorcycle - in recognition of their skills.
- He gave up most of the salaries of the costume designers and computer scientists who drew the special effects on "The Matrix" - deciding that their share of the film's budget was assessed short.
- He reduced his salary for the movie "The Devil's Advocate" to have enough money to invite Al Pacino.
- Almost at the same time his best friend passed away; His girlfriend lost a child and soon died in a car accident, and his sister suffered from leukemia.
Keanu didn't fail: he donated $5 million to the clinic that treated his sister, refused to be filmed (to be with her), and founded the Leukemia Foundation, donating significant amounts from each fee for the movie.
You may have been born a man, but stay a man..
Also read about Keanu
Keanu Reeves' father is of Hawaiian descent...
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03/03/2026

We need a big A'ho 🦅

03/02/2026

moment frozen in time — where spirit, strength, and tradition ride together along the river of history. Two warriors stand united with nature, their horses steady, their gaze fixed beyond the horizon. The mountains rise as silent witnesses, the river flows like memory, and the land breathes stories of courage, freedom, and ancestral pride. This is not just a scene, it’s a legacy — a reminder of harmony between humans, animals, and the earth itself. Raw, untamed, and eternally powerful.

03/01/2026

Why Isn’t This Map in the History Books?
By the age of 10, most children in the United States have been taught all 50 states that make up the country. But centuries ago, the land that is now the United States was a very different place. Over 20 million Native Americans dispersed across over 1,000 distinct tribes, bands, and ethnic groups populated the territory.
History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It’s not yours for you to erase or destroy.
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02/28/2026

Dear American neighbors 🤍
When you honor the traditions of this land and its first people,
you help keep the spirit alive.
Follow our journey and stand with us. ✨

02/28/2026

Cherokee Women: Equal Partners in Society Cherokee women enjoyed equal status with men in their society. They were eligible for the title of War Women and participated in councils as equals. This led Adair, an Irishman who traded with the Cherokee from 1736-1743, to accuse the Cherokee of having a "petticoat government". The Cherokee people followed a matrilineal system, where children grew up in their mother's house. An uncle from the mother's side taught boys essential skills like hunting and fishing. Women owned the houses and furnishings. Marriages were carefully negotiated, but women could initiate divorce by placing their spouse's belongings outside. Cherokee women worked hard, caring for children, cooking, tending to the house, tanning skins, weaving baskets, and cultivating fields. Men assisted with some household chores like sewing but focused primarily on hunting. Cherokee girls learned various skills, including warfare, healing, basket weaving, storytelling, trade, and dance. They became mothers, wives, and custodians of their heritage. The Cherokee people's ability to adapt was largely attributed to the women, who formed the core of their society.

02/22/2026

It does not matter what prayer you say from within your heart, it will never matter what rituals or ceremonies you perform to show your love or honor to the one, never doubt or think you are wrong with the name you have for the one. There is only one with many names that we all give our prayers and respect to, there is only one we all have within our heart and spirit, there is only one that has created all things of this physical world and the source where all souls dwell.
For the First Nations believe that the Creator is a living energy that lives in all life and in all things, that nothing could exist in this physical world without this living energy dwelling within it. For the whole of all this living energy we call Great spirit, and we all have a small part of it. So we should never trouble another people for showing their love or saying their prayers to the one in a different way, we should not trouble another people's spirituality for praising the one in a different way. For we are all related, we are all one, we are all brothers and sisters in the living energy of spirit. Ekosi.

02/21/2026

We were taught that children arrive carrying tomorrow in their hands,
soft as dawn, strong as rivers that have not yet learned their names.
Hold them gently, the old ones said,
because the way you cradle life is the way life will remember you.

Love is not loud.
It lives in steady arms, in tired hands that refuse to let go,
in quiet songs hummed when the fire burns low
and the world finally slows enough to listen.

Teach them the earth before you teach them fear.
Show them kindness before you show them rules.
Let them see respect in how you speak to elders,
and courage in how you stand when storms arrive.

We do not raise children alone.
We raise them with ancestors watching,
with stars leaning closer through the smoke hole,
with prayers stitched into every bead and blanket.

One day this child will walk their own trail.
May it be straight when it matters.
May it be gentle where others are fragile.
May it leave the ground better than it was found.

Tonight, we hold the future close to our hearts.
And promise it something simple.

You belong.
You are loved.
And this world will know you by how well you care for it.