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07/24/2024

20 years after being named the Most Likely To Win An Oscar by her high school classmates, Lily Gladstone is the first Native American Best Actress Nominee!

07/13/2024

Hopi potter Bobby Silas holding the coal-fired, Sikyátki-inspired jar that is the newest addition to ASM’s collections. Depicted on the pot are rain priests fighting different colors of clouds to bring the rain, according to the artist. They are proclaiming, "Let this be so."

07/13/2024

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07/12/2024

Moses J. Brings Plenty (born 4 September 1969) is an Oglala Lakota television, film, and stage actor, as well as a traditional drummer and singer.
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He is best known for his portrayal as ""Mo"" in the Paramount Network series Yellowstone. Moses Brings Plenty was born on the Pine Ridge Reservation, in South Dakota. He is a direct descendant of Brings Plenty, an Oglala Lakota warrior who fought in the Battle of Little Big Horn. His wife is Sara Ann Haney-Brings Plenty. His nephew Cole Brings Plenty portrays Pete Plenty Clouds in two episodes of 1923.
As an actor, he has played bit parts in Hidalgo, Thunderheart, and Pirates of the Caribbean. He also played Quanah Parker in the History Channel documentary Comanche Warrior, which was filmed on the Wild Horse Sanctuary in the southern Black Hills, and Crazy Horse on The History Channel's Investigating History documentary ""Who Killed Crazy Horse"" and the BBC documentary series The Wild West. He acted in Rez Bomb, considered to be the first movie with a universal storyline set on a reservation. Rez Bomb has been part of the international film festival circuit instead of playing strictly to Native American film festivals, which is a major breakthrough for Native cinema.
In addition to doing theater work in Nebraska, he also portrayed an Apache warrior in the 2011 science fiction western film Cowboys & Aliens and a character named Shep Wauneka in Jurassic World Dominion in 2022.
Brings Plenty is concerned about providing accurate representations of Native peoples in mass media. He says, ""Young people told me they don’t see our people on TV. Then it hit me, they are right. Where are our indigenous people, people who are proud of who they are?"" Brings Plenty also works behind the scenes on Yellowstone and its spin-off prequels 1883 and 1923 as Taylor Sheridan's American Indian Affairs Coordinator to make sure that each show appropriately represents Native culture."

07/12/2024

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07/11/2024

The Lakota led a simple and humble life. They never bragged or exaggerated things but just lived according to nature. And nature too existed in perfect harmony with them. Respect was another teaching that was central to the Lakotan way of life.
Culture Facts
Where: Originally populated all the Rocky Mountain ranges but pushed out further west by white settlers to Missouri and South Dakota.
History: White fur trade greed, broken treaties and endless small battles resulting in the near extinction of the race.
How to join in: you can visit a few remaining settlements to experience Indian life, but beware that this erodes their unique culture.
The Sioux are Native American and First Nations people in North America. The term can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or any of the nation’s many language dialects. Their territory covers some 200,000 km2 in the present day state of South Dakota and neighboring states.
The Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nation (also known as the Great Sioux Nation) descends from of the original inhabitants of North America and can be divided into three major linguistic and geographic groups: Lakota (Teton, West Dakota), Nakota (Yankton, Central Dakota) and Dakota (Santee, Eastern Dakota). The total number of native North Americans is approximately 1.5 million, of which around 100,000 are Lakota. They reside near the Sacred Black Hills of South Dakota.
The Lakota were one of the original native Americans tribes, who lived and hunted all over the Rocky Mountain ranges before the arrival of European travellers. The Lakota were originally part of the seven council fires made up of 7 bands: 4 Dakota, 2 Nakota and one Teton band, also known as the Lakota.
Many Tribal Lands
In the 17th Century they lived in Wisconsin, and in the forests in southern Minnesota where they had established reservations of many tribal generations. The name “Sioux” of which the native tribes are commonly known originates from the tribal name “Nadowe-is-iw”, the area of treacherous snakes near their settlements.
In 1680 the Lakota (who called themselves “tiyospaye” meaning ‘extended family’) were identified as living further west, on the upper Mississippi in central Minnesota. Tribal wars over the fur trade forced the Lakota out west, from the forests and lakes of Minnesota to the Great Plains west of the Mississippi and later to South Dakota, near the Missouri River.
white traders and traveller brought alien diseases to the Indians as well as accelerated buffalo hunting for the fur trade. This caused hostility and battles with the emigrants and traders. In 1851, a series of treaties called the Fort Laramie Treaty were made between the US and the many tribes. The treaty was created to guarantee peace between the white Americans and the numerous tribes in the Rocky Mountains. However, the white traders were hungry for the rich blood of the buffalo fur trade and every treaty and every agreement was ever made between the United States government and the Lakota people were violated and broken before the ink was even dry. This culminated in numerous battle, the most legendary and victorious for the tribes being the Battle of Little Bighorn.
The Lakota are a fiercely strong and powerful tribe whose leaders and warrior have achieved the status of legends the world over, like Red Claw, American Horse, Young Man Afraid of His Horses, Red Horn Buffalo, and Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse is the Lakota’s hero, and held in high esteem and legend by the tribe. The white man was his sworn enemy and he never gave up the fight for his people...

07/11/2024

Oregon Indigenous. There are nine federally recognized tribes with reservation lands in Oregon. Those nine tribes have about 24,500 members, according to the latest figures.
Some prominent Indigenous tribes of Oregon include:
Chinook: This tribe primarily resided in the coastal areas of the Pacific Northwest and had a significant influence on the region's trade and language.
Kalapuya: This group inhabited central and western Oregon, with numerous branches and subdivisions.
Klamath: The Klamath tribe lived in the Klamath and Agency Lake regions in southern Oregon.
Modoc: This tribe lived in both Oregon and California, with a portion of their territory now situated in Klamath County, Oregon.
Nez Perce: While also present in Idaho and Washington, some Nez Perce tribal members resided in eastern Oregon.
Paiute: Among the largest Indigenous groups in Oregon, the Paiute people have numerous branches and subdivisions spread across the state.
They range in size from the Burns Paiute Tribe, with 349 members, to the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, with 5,200 members. There are smaller tribes not on the that list, including the Takelma Tribe, whose members lived in the Rogue Valley until they were forcibly moved to the Siletz and Grand Ronde reservations in northern Oregon in the 1800s. Some members of that tribe have returned to Southern Oregon, notably tribal spokeswoman Agnes Baker Pilgrim, the granddaughter of a Takelma chief. The estimated population of all Native Americans in Oregon — including tribal members, members of tribes without federal recognition and those who self-identify as American Indian or Alaskan Native — was 109,223 in the 2010 Census.
Here’s the list of the nine tribes with reservation lands, with the number of members, per the Blue Book: Burns Paiute Tribe, 349 members. Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw, 953 members. Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, 5,200 members. Confederated Tribes of Siletz, 4,677 members. Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, 2,893 members. Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation, 4,306 members. Coquille Indian Tribe, 963 members. Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe, 1,536 members. Klamath Tribes, 3,700 members.
These Indigenous tribes have rich cultural heritages and have historically played integral roles in shaping the region's history and identity. Despite facing significant challenges and disruptions due to colonization and historical injustices, they continue to preserve and honor their traditions, languages, and ways of life in contemporary society.

07/10/2024

The reflection looks like an Eagle flying. 🦅

07/10/2024

The Appaloosa is a horse breed associated historically with the Nez Perce (Niimipu) Tribe. The name may originate from “a Palouse,” which referred to the region where the horses were bred. It is likely that these horses originally came from a variety of Spanish horses—so-called spotted horses—that were traded into the Northwest by the mid to late eighteenth century. The horses were then bred by the Nez Perce.
The Appaloosa is also known as the Nez Perce Horse. The first documented reports of horses in Oregon are in the journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who noted spotted horses similar to the Appaloosa among the Nez Perce Tribe.
The Nez Perce valued the Appaloosa for its intelligent temperament, sure-footedness, endurance, and speed. They required their horses to negotiate the treacherous trails from their winter quarters in the Wallowa Valley of eastern Oregon through the Rocky Mountains to the summer encampments on the Plains. The horses were fast enough to catch a bison and paso fino—that is, smooth-gaited—enough to allow a hunter to fire with accuracy from a full gallop.
The original Nez Perce Appaloosa nearly died out after the Nez Perce War in 1876, when the U.S. military confiscated the Tribe’s herds. A few of the breed survived into the twentieth century, however, and in the 1930s horsemen in eastern Oregon worked to revive it. As a modern horse breed, the Appaloosa is distinctive for its mottled skin, visible sclera (the white outer layer of the eye), and vertical-striped hooves.
The Appaloosa is one of the most distinctive and valued American horse breeds in the world. The Nez Perce Tribe and other horse ranchers in the region are continuing to develop the desirable traits that were bred into the original breed in the nineteenth century.
By David Lewis (Takelma, Chinook,
Molalla, Santiam Kalapuya)
Photo via Holdyourhorsies

07/09/2024

Janee' Kassanavoid (born January 19, 1995) is an Native American track and field athlete who specializes in the hammer throw.
Professional career
Kassanavoid set her personal best of 78.00 m (255 ft 10 in) on April 30, 2022, in Tucson, Arizona. On July 17, 2022, at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, Kassanavoid won the bronze medal with a distance of 74.86 m. She is Native American—a member of the Comanche Nation—making her the first Native American woman to win a medal at the World Athletics Championships

07/09/2024

I don't know why this hasn't received more publicity, but this fifty-foot sculpture was unveiled recently in South Dakota.
It's called 'Dignity' and was done by artist Dale Lamphere to honor the women of the Sioux Nation..

07/08/2024

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