Q´Orianka Kilcher Reads Chief Joseph (Video)
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...
Category: Native Americans
Rare Photos Show The Fascinating Beauty Of The Yakama Native Women
Old photos of Yakama Women (aka Yakima) taken between 1880 and 1957. {Homeland is primarily in southern Washington.} Upon central Washington’s plateau and along the Columbia River reside tribal people called the Yakama’s. The...
Quanah Parker – The Last Chief of the Comanche
Born in 1845 to Comanche chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker was the last chief to the Kwhandi band. His mother was captured by the Comanche when she was 9 years old and had...
Remembering U.S. Soldiers Who Refused To Kill Native Americans At Sand Creek
These were men who rejected the violence and genocide inherent in the “conquest of the West.” They did so by personally refusing to take part in the murder of peaceful people Every Thanksgiving weekend...
Saving the Nokota horse breed, a descendent from Sitting Bull’s horses, from extinction (Video)
Nokota Horse Facing Imminent Threat On a lonesome farm in Linton, North Dakota something wonderful is taking place. Frank Kuntz and his brother, Leo have taken on the difficult task of trying to resurrect...
Running Antelope (1821-1896)
Running Antelope. Running Antelope, born in 1821 near the Grand River in present-day South Dakota, grew up immersed in the traditional customs and practices of his Sioux people. As a young man, he learned...
Rocky Bear: The Oglala Chief and His Remarkable Life
Rocky Bear, a minor Kiyuksa Oglala band chief at Pine Ridge Agency, was born about 1825/30. Mainly known for his work with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Shows. Only little is known of his...
Security And Peace: The Story Of Native American (Real) Dreamcatchers
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...
SITTING BULL WOUNDED BY THE CROW
About the year 1873 while the Hunkpapa were camped on the banks of the Little Missouri River, they suffered considerable owing to the severity of the winter season. Horses were afflicted with the mange...
SIOUX KINSHIP, COMMUNITY, AND BELIEF SYSTEM
In the early days of the Sioux, tribes or oyate — the people — lived in tiyospaye or camp circles with large extended families united by a sense of kinship and community. An appointed...
