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On the morning of February 12, 2018, Oyate Wyokb Win (Lakota) or Lorraine Cecilia Martin (english), the fierce matriarch of the Tetuwan Lakota Oyate on Pine Ridge Reservation and last living Grandmother of the American Indian Movement (AIM), passed
"When Columbus got off the boat, he asked us who we were. We said we’re the Human Beings, we’re the People.
Conceptually the Europeans didn’t understand that, it was beyond their conceptual reality. They didn’t see us. They couldn’t see who we were.
Local authorities had failed to charge the white killer of a local Oglala Indian named Wesley Bad Heart Bull with murder. Angered by this lack of action, several militant Indians set fire to the Chamber of Commerce building and the courthouse in Cust
Supaman dances at the Crow Fair powwow in Crow Agency this past August. The hip-hop artist, whose popularity has boomed since his video of "Prayer Loop Song" began making waves on YouTube, has released his fifth album, "Illuminatives."
Scott R. Christensen has written a landmark biography of Sagwitch, the Northwestern Shoshone chief who converted to Mormonism a few years after the Bear River Massacre of 1863. Sagwitch (1822-1887) witnessed one of the most transformative periods in
Running Antelope or Tȟatȟóka Íŋyaŋke (1821–1896) became a head chief of the Húŋkpapȟa in 1851. Known for his bravery in war, and skills in oratory and diplomacy, Running Antelope was one of four Huŋkpapȟa principal chiefs who acted as close adviso
On the left is Rachel Perdash, a young girl who made it out of the massacre alive and ran to tell neighboring people what had happened. On the right is Chief Sagwitch and Bear Hunter’s wife, who married Sagwitch after Bear Hunter died.
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493 dead Shoshone The largest single-incident massacre of Indians in the American West
It is very difficult for me to speak on this but it’s time. Our over 12 year-long legal battle in Blackhorse, et.al. vs. Pro Football was vacated last Thursday. This ends over 25 years of litigation in our case and with the original case, Harjo vs.
“Whether the Blacks deserve any mercy at the hands of the pioneering squatters is an open question, but that they get none is certain. They are a doomed race, and before many years they will be completely wiped out of the land” - Harold Finch-Hatton
On January 22, two weeks after the Cheyenne escape, the soldiers cornered the 32 remaining band members above the Hat Creek bluffs, about 35 miles northwest of Fort Robinson. Led by Little Finger Nail, 18 men and boys, and 14 women and children prep
BY DENNIS SUMRAK
Soldiers destroyed the peach orchards in Canyon de Chelly.
The epicenter of Navajo culture is Canyon de Chelly (pronounced “shay”), a historical and spiritual place in northeastern Arizona. The sheer red rock canyon walls also made
On January 15, 1929, King was born on January 15, 1929,in Atlanta,Georgia,to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. (1899–1984) and Alberta Williams King (1904–1974). King's legal name at birth was Michael King Jr, and his father was also born Michael
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Despite the yearly celebrations of Martin Luther King Day and African American History Month, it is probably little known what the great freedom fighter had to say about the horrific mistreatment of Native Americans by the U.S. In his 1963 book, “Wh
Unfortunately, a lot of people do not know the main difference between a healthy and natural egg and an unhealthy one.
Eating healthy eggs is vital for our overall health and well-being. This being said, we decided to help you learn which eggs are t
A member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, Thomasina E. Jordan(will have photo soon) was raised by her grandparents in Massachusetts after being orphaned as a child. She earned a BFA and an MFA at Bishop Lee College, in Boston. She also studied at the
