π†π‘π€π‡π€πŒ 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐄

π†π‘π€π‡π€πŒ 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐄 When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us. – Arapaho

CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL, SOUTH DAKATA - One of the largest sculpture projects in the worldThe Crazy Horse Memorial is a mas...
06/09/2025

CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL, SOUTH DAKATA - One of the largest sculpture projects in the world
The Crazy Horse Memorial is a massive mountain carving located in the Black Hills of South Dakota, USA. It depicts Crazy Horse, a legendary Oglala Lakota warrior, riding a horse and pointing into the distance. The memorial honors Crazy Horse's legacy and serves as a symbol of Native American pride, culture, and resilience.
Work on the Crazy Horse Memorial began in 1948 under the direction of sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski and continues to this day. It is one of the largest ongoing sculptural projects in the world. The memorial is intended to be much more than just a carving; it also includes a cultural and educational center, museum, and Native American university.
The Crazy Horse Memorial stands as a tribute to the spirit and endurance of Native American peoples and their contributions to American history and culture. It is a significant tourist attraction and a symbol of hope and inspiration for Indigenous communities across the country.

Kiowa people are a Native American tribe and an indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrate...
06/09/2025

Kiowa people are a Native American tribe and an indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in the 17th and 18th centuries, and eventually into the Southern Plains by the early 19th century. In 1867, the Kiowa were moved to a reservation in southwestern Oklahoma.
Today, they are federally recognized as Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma with headquarters in Carnegie, Oklahoma. As of 2011, there were 12,000 members. The Kiowa language (CΓ‘uijΓ²gΓ ), part of the Tanoan language family, is in danger of extinction, with only 20 speakers as of 2012.

In 1925, diphtheria affected an isolated village in Alaska. Due to the severe cold, it was not possible to transport the...
06/04/2025

In 1925, diphtheria affected an isolated village in Alaska. Due to the severe cold, it was not possible to transport the medicines by plane and ship, so the transport of the medicines to the town of Noma was organized with the help of mushers (guides or drivers of a dog sled team).
About 1120 miles (1800 kilometers) had to be covered in five days. There were several teams and they took turns on different sections. The Norwegian Gunnar Kasen and his main dog Balto were the first to bring the serum to the village.
It turned out that Kasen had not made a mistake in choosing the main dog, because when the team had an accident, Balto helped his musher, saving him from certain death.
When the storm reached its peak and visibility became low they crossed 85 km. Balto is considered a hero, and in 1925 a monument was erected to him in Central Park in New York.
He was truly a hero, like all the other dogs during this mission. However, the dog that did the most difficult part of the work was Togo who crossed the longest distance 260 miles (418 kilometers). He was part of Leonardo Seppala team of dogs. Togo is the husky, in the photo.

π‚π‘π’πžπŸ πƒπšπ§ π†πžπ¨π«π πž ❀Chief Dan George was actually a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in British Columbia, Canada from 19...
06/04/2025

π‚π‘π’πžπŸ πƒπšπ§ π†πžπ¨π«π πž ❀
Chief Dan George was actually a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in British Columbia, Canada from 1951 to 1963. Also an author and poet, George achieved his first acting job at the age of 60, appearing in the Canadian TV show, Caribou Country. But George’s acting career didn’t peak until 1970 when he starred in Little Big Man, a role for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Another great role for George was the part of Lone Watie in The Outlaw Josie Wales (1976), often considered one of the best American Westerns. And George’s performance in this American classic could be considered Oscar-worthy as well. George also appeared on TV shows such as Kung Fu. During George’s writing career, he was credited with fostering understanding between non-native and Native Americans, particularly with the release of his book, My Heart Soars

Cheyenne Dog Soldier, 1840.The Dog Soldiers were the Cheyenne Elite,they formed their own bands within the Cheyenne Nati...
06/02/2025

Cheyenne Dog Soldier, 1840.
The Dog Soldiers were the Cheyenne Elite,
they formed their own bands within the Cheyenne Nation, they often gave their own lives to protect their women and children, they were very much feared by the white Soldiers,
and their Native American Foes, Pawnee, Ute, to name but a few, however,
they where honoured Allies of the Lakota Sioux, and the Arapahoe's, Comanche's and Kiowa's, the mention of the words
"Cheyenne Dog Soldier",
put Fear into the most hardest of white Soldiers,
they are still the most famous warrior society on Earth today.
AHO. S

I don't know why this hasn't received more publicity, but this fifty-foot sculpture was unveiled recently in South Dakot...
06/02/2025

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.

The wolf never eats corpses, neither animals, nor people; it spends its whole life with a partner, it does not mate with...
05/14/2025

The wolf never eats corpses, neither animals, nor people; it spends its whole life with a partner, it does not mate with its mother or sister; it is a monogamous animal, it does not deceive.
If a partner dies, the wolf remains alone; it knows its young ones well: it is the only animal that helps their parents after deep old age and brings them food.
When you kill a wolf, it looks you in the eye until its soul gives out; it's 25% smarter than the smarter dog, and it's the only animal that doesn't obey training, they say...
*sometimes the bad thing in the movie is not how they portray it

Severa Tafoya making clay pots at Santa Clara Pueblo in north-central New Mexico - Santa Clara - 1935
05/14/2025

Severa Tafoya making clay pots at Santa Clara Pueblo in north-central New Mexico - Santa Clara - 1935

White suffragists were fascinated by matriarchal power within tribes, but quickly forgot them by 1920. β€œThe Indian woman...
05/13/2025

White suffragists were fascinated by matriarchal power within tribes, but quickly forgot them by 1920. β€œThe Indian woman rejoices with you,” one woman told Alice Paul, but she was quick to remind too that the fight was far from over. The 19th Amendment didn’t grant voting rights to Native womenβ€” at that point, they weren't even considered US citizens.That woman who reminded Alice Paul was Zitkala-Ε a (β€œRed Bird”), who spent her entire life straddling two cultures. Born and raised on a reservation in South Dakota, she was **taken by Quaker missionaries** to attend boarding school. Later, she wrote on her struggles with identity, the inner conflict she felt between the culture she came from, and the culture she was educated inβ€” the joy of learning to read, write and play music, but also the pain of losing her heritage.While studying at Earlham College and the New England Conservatory of Music, she began recording Native American oral histories and translating them into English. It was her belief that because many Indigenous customs were passed orally through music, opera would be a powerful way to share her cultural values with a new audience. So in 1913, she wrote the libretto and songs for the first Native American operaβ€” composed in the romantic style, and based on a sacred Sioux dance deemed illegal by the US Government.
She argued that as the original people of America, indigenous people had a right to be citizens and be represented in government with the right to vote. Her relentless work in promoting a pan-Indian movement across all tribes for the cause of citizenship rights led to the passage of the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act. In 1926, she co-founded the National Council of American Indians, lobbying for Native suffrage rights. Her later books were amongst the first to bring traditional Native American stories to white audiences.
On International Women’s Day, it’s important to remember Zitkala-Ε a’s call to remember Native women, and the full range of their political and cultural experiences

"I am an old woman now. The buffaloes and black-tail deer are gone, and our Indian ways are almost gone. Sometimes I fin...
05/13/2025

"I am an old woman now. The buffaloes and black-tail deer are gone, and our Indian ways are almost gone. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that I ever lived them. My little son grew up in the white man's school. He can read books, and he owns cattle and has a farm. He is a leader among our Hidatsa people, helping teach them to follow the white man's road.He is kind to me. We no longer live in an earth lodge, but in a house with chimneys, and my son's wife cooks by a stove.But for me, I cannot forget our old ways.
Often in summer I rise at daybreak and steal out to the corn fields, and as I hoe the corn I sing to it, as we did when I was young. No one cares for our corn songs now.
Sometimes in the evening I sit, looking out on the big Missouri. The sun sets, and dusk steals over the water. In the shadows I see again to see our Indian village, with smoke curling upward from the earth lodges, and in the river's roar I hear the yells of the warriors, and the laughter of little children of old.
It is but an old woman's dream. Then I see but shadows and hear only the roar of the river, and tears come into my eyes. Our Indian life, I know, is gone forever."
Waheenee - Hidatsa (North Dakota)
Credit: Remembering the Old West

LONG HAIRTraditionally, long hair was always a symbol of masculinity. All of history's great warriors had long hair, fro...
05/13/2025

LONG HAIRTraditionally, long hair was always a symbol of masculinity. All of history's great warriors had long hair, from the Greeks (who wrote odes to their heroes' hair) to the Nordic, from the American Indians (famous for their long shiny hair) to the Japanese. And the longer and beautiful the hair was, the more manly the warrior was considered. Vikings flaunted their braids and samurai wore their long hair as a symbol of their honor (they cut their braid when they lose honor).When a warrior was captured, his mane was cut to humiliate him, to take away his beauty. That custom resumed in what is today military service. There when new soldiers begin their training the first thing they do is cut their hair to undermine their self-esteem, make them submissive and make them see who's boss.
The Romans were the ones who "invented" short hair so to speak, between the 1st and 5th centuries AD.. In battles they believed this gave them defensive advantages, since their opponents couldn't grab them by the hair. This also helped them to recognize each other in the battlefield.
Short hair on men is a relatively new "invention" that has nothing to do with aesthetics.
But today we often see men being humiliated, sometimes called "gay" for wearing long hair, not knowing that short hair is actually the "anti-masculine" and is a repressive social imposition, while long hair symbolizes freedom

Comanche portraitsNorth America was a place of great turbulence and many conflicts when the newcomers decided to inhabit...
05/13/2025

Comanche portraitsNorth America was a place of great turbulence and many conflicts when the newcomers decided to inhabit the land and take parts of it for themselves.In the 18th and 19th century, many tribes, such as Iroquois, Cherokee and Shawnee were overwhelmed by the number of settlers moving westward across America.
When the settlers started moving to the southern edges of the continent their movement was put to a halt for some time. A fierce tribe of Comanche were the reason for it.Even though many tribes have adapted to the introduction of the horse, the Comanche were the group who took most advantage out of it.Previously being an obscure mountain tribe, the Comanche became the fiercest and most famous riders that caused many troubles to the settlers.
In contrast to, for example, Sioux and Cheyenne that would dismount their horses before battle, Comanche continued riding in a fight, which gave them a significant advantage

Address

1788 CLAY Street , San Francisco, CA
Street , CA

Telephone

+18779925577

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when π†π‘π€π‡π€πŒ 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐄 posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Share

Category