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Native American Outdoors Tepee 2 Figures Ute 1900s 1908

Native American (Ute) man and boy pose (standing) near a tepee - Poley - 1908

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Oh Great Spirit ... Creator of all things: Human beings ... trees, grass, berries ... Help us, be kind to us ... Let us be happy on earth ... A'ho 🪶✊🏼

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Luh-Sa-Coo-Re-Culla-Ha (Special Time of Day or Estimated Sun). Pawnee. Photo by Jackson Brothers (Omaha, NE). C. 1869. Source: Princeton Digital Library.

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A picture of an unknown Oregon Native girl that says Umatilla Oregon on back and that's it. Picture dates to around 1900-1910. (Updated) Taken by Benjamin Gifford in The Dalles, Oregon. She may be from the Umatilla tribe ...

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Native American Outdoors Group Pueblo 1900s ... Pueblo Native American men wearing belted kilts, bead necklaces, feather bustles, and head feathers, perform a ceremony around seated men, arranged dried corn and feathers; some play flutes. - C. 1890/1910

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Native American Sioux Dakota Oglala 1890s 1891

Photo shows Little, Oglala band leader, three-quarter length studio portrait, seated, wearing a turkey feather headdress and holding various weapons. - Grabill - 1891

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In the spring of 1867 ... American cavalry patrols pushed deep into Kiowa and Comanche territory along the Salt Creek plains in north Texas. Tensions had been mounting for months due to broken treaties, unauthorised forts and constant military exploration across the southern plains ... One morning, before the sun fully rose, soldiers launched a sudden attack on a small Kiowa camp near Salt Creek ... Families were still awake ... The fires were just embers ... Kids were eating there first meal of the day ...

The sound of gunshots did it all ... In confusion, a Kiowa boy of no more than eight years old followed the order he had heard the elderly repeat many times: “If danger comes and you can’t run, hide underground.” ”Behind his family's cabin was a storage well where dry food, tools and winter supplies were kept ... He ran towards him as the attack approached ... In the pit, I could hear everything ... The horses howling, Women Asking For Their Kids, Soldiers firing at lodges ... The crunch of burning leather walls ... Dust and dirt rained down as gunshots shook the ground above him ... He put a buffalo robe on his head and covered it with dirt, leaving only a small breathing space. Steps smashed on the wooden deck. Heard voices yelling in English, boots scraping, the shot of rifles hitting the lodge poles ...

He didn't move.

He didn't cry.

He remained silent long after the noise disappeared ... When the soldiers finally left, the boy emerged from the hole and became a world that had changed in a single morning. His house burned down. Many in the camp were dead or missing. Survivors searched for their loved ones as smoke drifts across the plains ... But the boy survived ... He was found by relatives later that day, still shaking, covered in dust, grabbing a package of dry food he had grabbed in fear. Elders later said he survived because Kiowa children were taught from a young age where to hide, where to run and how to survive the moments destined to erase them ... The Salt Creek attack of 1867 became one of many frontier confrontations recorded during the U.S. military push into the southern plains ... The report lists victims ... At the gun list ... On the list of horses taken and properties destroyed ... Not a single child appears who survived it ... But Kiowa oral history reminded him ... The boy who survived going underground, and he carried the memory of that morning for the rest of his life ...