Indigenous Brand

09/12/2024

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You may be cool, but not this cool.…

08/15/2024

Honoring our Indigenous Communities World Wide

08/15/2024

Prairie Woman and her husband, Chief Red Bird, in Cantonment, Oklahoma - Southern Cheyenne - 1914
{Note: Prairie Woman was the daughter of White Shield, and Red Bird was the son of Black Kettle.}

08/14/2024

Native Proverb!!!

08/14/2024

Wichita Anadarko Indian woman, Oklahoma. Photo: before 1912. - The Wichita people are a confederation of Plains Indians. Historically they spoke the Wichita language, a Caddoan language. They are indigenous to Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Today the four Wichita tribes, the Waco, Taovaya, Tawakoni, and Wichita proper, are federally recognized with the Kichai people as the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco and Tawakonie).

08/13/2024

Photograph of Eva Geronimo, Geronimo and Emily Chihuahua, taken on March 14, 1904, probably in the studio of photographer H. H. Clarke, in Oklahoma City.Eva Geronimo Godeley was born on September 23, 1889. She was the daughter of Zi-yeh and Geronimo.In July 1890, Zi-yeh and her 10-month-old daughter Eva were baptized at Mount Vernon Church. When Eva was three years old, on any given Sunday in 1893, the well-dressed Geronimofamily could be seen and the ancient warrior carrying Eva in a stroller baby. Other times, when Geronimo went into a store to buy supplies and Eva was with him, he would buy her everything his daughter asked for.
In 1897, the painter Eldridge Ayer Burbank was sent by the “Chicago Field Museum” to paint a portrait of Geronimo. He also portrayed Eva at the age of nine (in 1898), writing in his notes: "No one could be kinder to a child than Geronimo was to her."
In the late summer of 1905, Eva's puberty ceremony took place.
When Geronimo died, Eva was at the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School (Newkirk, Kay County, Oklahoma) with her half-brother Robert, son of Ih-tedda.
Eva married her fellow Chilocco student, Fred Godeley or Golene. They had a daughter who was born on June 21, 1910, Evaline Golene, but she died after two months, on August 20.
Eva died of tuberculosis, less than a year later, on August 10, 1911.
Emily Chihuahua Tee was born on July 5, 1889. She was the daughter of Ilth-gozey and Chihuahua. She married Paul Teenabikezen, having a daughter, Edna. After Paul's death, Emily married John Hubbard, a Mescalero Apache.
Emily died on March 30, 1909, being buried next to Paul Teenanbikezen in the Northern Apache Cemetery, also called Chief Chihuahua Cemetery, in Lawton (Comanche County, Oklahoma).

08/13/2024

Dances with Wolves is a 1990 American epic western film starring, directed, and produced by Kevin Costner in his feature directorial debut. It is a film adaptation of the 1988 novel Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake that tells the story of Union Army Lieutenant John J. Dunbar (Costner), who travels to the American frontier to find a military post, and who meets a group of Lakota.

08/13/2024

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..

08/11/2024

Last Saturday, over 100 members of local Native American Tribes gathered at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site as part of the annual Canoe Journey. For this segment of the journey along the Columbia River, seven canoes represented the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and Portland All Nations Canoe Family. National Park Service staff worked with the Cowlitz Indian Tribe for this stop on the long journey as well as the day of activities held at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.
This annual, intertribal event is a gathering of Indigenous canoe cultures from the coasts of Alaska, British Columbia, Oregon and Washington. It first took place in 1989 as a part of Washington's Centennial celebration and has since attracted participants from other Pacific Rim Indigenous canoe cultures, such as Ainu, Hawaiian and Māori. The Canoe Journey focuses on traditional and modern connections, including the opportunity for traditional travel upon ancestral waters, sharing cultural protocols, and passing teachings on to young people.
NPS Photos / L. Shugart

08/11/2024

Adam Beach
On this day in 1972, actor Adam Beach, Anishinaabe, was born. He’s perhaps best known for his role as Victor Joseph in Smoke Signals, but his decades-long career includes many parts in TV shows & movies. He leveraged his success to create a nonprofit in Winnipeg that trains at-risk Native youth in various roles within the film industry! It takes a community to uplift our culture.

08/11/2024

08/10/2024

So true✊.