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01/30/2026

In 1975 when the Gunsmoke TV Series ended...Lorne Greene bought The Buckskin Horse whose real name was Danny, that he and James Arness shared riding in between Studios from 1959-1973...Lorne kept him until 1979 then he donated Danny to a Therapeutic Riding Center. where the Horse taught mentally and physically challenged children to ride until his passing in 1992 at the age of 45, an unusually long life for a horse. to live,-Dave. -

01/30/2026

“Before I was six years old, my grandparents and my mother had taught me that if all the green things that grow were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all the four-legged creatures were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all the winged creatures were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all our relatives who crawl and swim and live within the earth were taken away, there could be no life. But if all the human beings were taken away, life on earth would flourish. That is how insignificant we are.”
Russell Means, Oglala Lakota Nation (November 10, 1939 – October 22, 2012).

07/03/2025

𝐄𝐚𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 - 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐚 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐧
1820 - December 18, 1888
Lakota trader and educator Matilda Picotte Galpin—known for much of her life as Wambdi Autepewin, or “Eagle Woman That All Look At”—earned a reputation as an intermediary between Indians and whites on the Upper Missouri River.
Eagle Woman was born in 1820 near the Big Bend of the Missouri southeast of present-day Pierre to a Two Kettle father and a Hunkpapa mother. She married Honorè Picotte, a prominent American Fur Company trader, in 1838. Picotte retired to Saint Louis and his white family a little over a decade later. One of his protégés, Charles E. Galpin, married Eagle Woman in 1850. As Galpin’s only wife, Eagle Woman took on a significant role in his business affairs, traveling as far upriver as Fort Benton to trade with local tribes.
Because of her fur-trade experience, Eagle Woman encouraged cross-cultural understanding. She urged Indians to work with white settlers and insisted that government officials and private traders deal fairly with tribes. In 1868, she aided Father Pierre-Jean De Smet in convincing the Lakota leader Sitting Bull to participate in negotiations over the Fort Laramie Treaty. When De Smet baptized her later that year, she took the name Matilda Picotte Galpin. Following her husband’s death in 1869, she assumed control of his trading post, and gained renown for her generosity toward the Lakotas who faced dwindling resources following their move to the Great Sioux Reservation.
Galpin accompanied a cadre of Lakota leaders to Washington, D.C., and New York City in 1872 on a tour that federal officials hoped would showcase the power of the Americans and discourage Indians from leaving the reservation. In 1876, alongside the eldest of her four daughters, Louise, she helped establish the region’s first Catholic Indian day school at Standing Rock. While Galpin encouraged the Lakotas to adopt American norms, she opposed the treaty that ceded the Black Hills, formalized as the Agreement of 1877.
Galpin died at her daughter Alma’s ranch near Cannonball, North Dakota, in 1888 and is buried at Fort Yates, south of her longtime home on Porcupine Creek

07/03/2025

Portrait of Iron White Man, a Sioux Native American, circa 1900.
In 1898 New York photographer Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934) embarked on a deeply personal project, creating a set of prints that rank among the most compelling of her celebrated body of work. Käsebier was on the threshold of a career that would establish her as both the leading portraitist of her time and an extraordinary art photographer. Her new undertaking was inspired by viewing the grand parade of Buffalo Bill's Wild West troupe en route to Madison Square Garden for several weeks of performances.
Käsebier had spent her childhood on the Great Plains, and retained many vivid, happy memories of playing with nearby Native American children. She quickly sent a letter to William "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917), requesting permission to photograph in her studio the Sioux Indians traveling with the show. Within weeks, Käsebier began her unique and special project photographing the Indian men, women, and children, formally and informally. Friendships developed, and her photography of these Native Americans continued for more than a decade.Profile portrait of Iron White Man, who wears two strings of beads, a circular ring on his head, a tailored shirt, and a vest

06/26/2025

1900 - Chiricahua Apache women from the east fork of Clear Creek, Arizona. The Apache are not one people, but rather a label applied to a group of tribes who inhabit the Southwestern US. There is much debate as to their origins. It was the Spanish who first coined the term Apache, believed to come from a Pueblo word for enemy. MANY TRIBES LABELLED APACHE WERE NOT ENEMIES OF THE ANCESTRAL PUEBLO PEOPLES. IN SOME CASES THEY ARE THE SAME PEOPLE, HAVING MERGED TO WARD OFF THE 'PEOPLE EATERS'

06/18/2025

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 to erase. It belongs to all of us.

06/15/2025

I knew a wise woman
And she said to me
That the river would mold me
And the wild wind would cool me
The trickster the coyote
He would fool me
That father sun would warm me
Mother earth would clothe me
Grandmother moon would greet me
And of the old ways she would teach me
Wise woman, she told me
To always walk lightly
Tread the earth ever gently
Lovingly so preciously
And take from her sparingly
She said, to share with others
What you have learned from me
Be still and breathe, ever patiently
For the web of life
Has woven what is to be
But you must still choose
Your own path, you will see
And lastly, the wise woman said to me
To listen to the wise one
That dwells within me
To walk my path in balance
Is to be free
More than just words
So mote it be.
~ Jonathan Bear Geronimo Ramaker
Image: Native American woman Cecilia Bearchum, a tribal elder of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon

06/11/2025

Warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who cannot provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity. —Sitting Bull (c. 1831 - 1890), Hunkpapa Sioux.

06/11/2025

Herman Asenap (Grey Foot) was a respected tribal leader. He was a skilled interpreter for the Post Oak Mission and the U.S. Indian Service. He shared that his father was a Mexican captive who was believed taken as a young child in the mid-1860's. Herman's mother was a full blood Kwahada Comanche named Tahchockah who was born around 1858.
Similar in a way to the history of Herman Asenap's father, the remarkable Comanche elder Herkeyah (Carrying Her Sunshade) was captured as a young girl in old Mexico. She had also lived an incredible and fascinating life as a Comanche captive and Comanche woman.
With regard to Herkeyah's memory of an intense encounter between Herman's mother Tahchockah and the Tonkawas, she recounted that his mother was running away from several Tonkawa scouts who were in high pursuit of her. In the tail of her horse, Tahchockah effectively tied a knot and drove her horse into the water. As the Tonkawas were closing in, she held strongly onto the tail and made her way safely across the flooded creek. The encounter is very much indicative of the strength and character of Comanche women.
Amazing picture entitled "Two Comanche Women and a small child" by George Addison, ca. 1890-1895. Photograph courtesy of the Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri

06/10/2025

Remembering the day of the death of Geronimo ⚰️🪦
Geronimo (Chiricahua: Goyaałé; commonly spelled Goyathlay or Goyahkla in English) (June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was an American Indian leader and healer of the Apache Chiricahua people led the people against Mexico and the United States and their territorial expansion into Apache tribal lands for decades during the Apache Wars. The Apaches led the Arizona Indian rebellion against the whites and the U.S. military for self-rule. After ten years of fighting (1876-1886), he surrendered when he reached some agreement on interests with the United States government, but then the government broke the agreement, he was arrested and imprisoned in Oklahoma (during the year). Indian Concentration Camp) lived as a corn farmer for the rest of his life. Later American history recognized him as a shining example of American heroism. American soldiers in World War II (especially paratroopers) often chanted his name as a volunteer slogan on the battlefield.

06/10/2025

"It does not require many words to speak the truth."
- Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, also known as Chief Joseph.
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Source: portrait taken in 1877 / Wikimedia Commons

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