Remember Native Americans

Generation after generation has taken from American Indians while giving little or nothing in return. No American Indian Elder should live in isolation. No American Indian Elder should go hungry. It's time to end the cycle of broken promises. It's time...

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“Show respect to all people and grovel to none.” -Tecumseh

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“Before eating always take the time to thank the food.” -Arapaho

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“Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people want it.” -Crow

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“The ground on which we stand is sacred ground. It is the dust and blood of our ancestors.” - Chief Plenty Coups

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Agnes (perhaps Incashola), a Native American young woman on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, stands holding a striped, wool blanket draped over her right arm. - Boos - 1905-1907

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Ruth Cuthand | Surviving: COVID-19. 2020

Made from glass beads, mask, thread and backing. “Her work invites us to consider the eerie design of the viral menace, and our human defencelessness before it, memorializing catastrophe and giving a face to a faceless foe.”

Quote from: https://canadianart.ca/features/canadian-art-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR3dCFMzl5NtAeamvylw3DK8SY5iZfxgNBfbGNcitgk2Ku5-IrU0OhfvjnQ

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“Destiny Buck, of the Wanapum tribe, rides her mare, Daisy, in the yearly Indian princess competition in Pendleton, Oregon. Embraced first for war, hunting, and transport, horses became partners in pageantry and a way to show tribal pride.”

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Red Cloud, Sitting Bull , Swift Bear (Arapaho), and Spotted Tail (Brule Sioux)… and Julius Meyer. Taken by Frank F. Currier, Omaha.

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Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. - Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota

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Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist. -Winona LaDuke, Ojibwe

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When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man, an Indian said simply, “Ours.” -Vine Deloria, Jr., Oglala

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I see a time of seven generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become one circle again. - Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux

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Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living.”-Tecumseh,Shawnee

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In 1920, Native Women Sought the Vote. Here’s What’s Next.

The 19th Amendment did not bring the right to vote to all Native women, but two experts in a conversation said it did usher in the possibility of change.

Today marks the 100-year celebration of  Womens Equality Day . Although Native Women were highly involved in early suffrage activism, the 19th amendment would not fully apply to them until as late as 1962. Native suffragists still took advantage of these opportunities to speak about pressing issues in their communities — Native voting, land loss, and treaty rights.

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America’s National Mammal  #bison - on the move through #lamarvalley in @yellowstonenps this #summer

- love the sidekick action about half way through  lol