Category: Native Americans
According to Native American tradition, the dreamcatcher’s web catches bad dreams and holds them until morning when they perish in the light of dawn. According to the Native American people, dreams are messages that...
Native American models and actors: much more than pretty faces – Part II 1- Moses J. Brings Plenty is Oglala Lakota born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; he is fluent in...
Gene’s Blackfoot name is Natoyiipiita …Holy Eagle. Besides riding every year in the Calgary Stampede parade he is an actor and stunt man and can be seen on the show “Hell on Wheels”. He...
Adorable Toddler Siblings In Pow Wow Regalia As we continue to celebrate pow wow season, it’s hard not to include adorable photos of the children who make pow wows so much more enjoyable. The...
This incredible short film shares an Indigenous Native American Prophecy that links all of life and the future of our planet. “Thus he learned that there are spirits in the water – that water...
A well-known proverb says to respect your ancestors, for you are the result of a thousand loves. And some of the most important sayings come from our elders (and ancestors) after we’ve learned a...
Q’Orianka Kilcher reads Chief Joseph’s account of his 1879 trip to Washington, DC. Part of a reading of Voices of a People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove) at All...
The American Indian comedic group, 1491s released this video to have Native people from from Indian country record themselves saying “I love you” in their Native language. The result is the “Indigenous Love Words...
The important role of Native American women It’s no exaggeration to say that Native American women are missing from most media coverage, history books and classroom discussions. But at least journalism students, instructors and...
Take a rare look inside the world of an ancient and sacred ceremony When a Navajo girl reaches puberty (the time of her first menstruation), she undergoes a four day ceremony called Kinaalda which...