Wilmer Bernhard

04/26/2026

Wes Studi's has had one long enjoyable acting career. He was raised in Nofire Hollow Oklahoma, speaking Cherokee only until he started school. At 17 he joined the National Guard and later went to Vietnam. After his discharge, Studi became politically active in American Indian affairs. He participated in Wounded Knee at Pine Ridge Reservation in 1973. Wes is known for his roles as a fierce Native American warrior, such as the Pawnee warrior in Dances with Wolves. In the Last of the Mohicans he plays the Huron named Magua, which was his first major part. Soon after he got the lead role in Geronimo: An American Legend. He was in Skinwalkers, The Lone Ranger, and The Horse Whisperer. He played the Indian out in the desert in The Doors movie, and he was also in Avatar. Studi also plays bass and he and his wife are in a band called Firecat of Discord. Wes Studi also serves as honorary chair of the national endowment campaign, of the Indigenous Language Institute that's working to save Native Languages. He and his family live in Santa Fe New Mexico, and Wes has been in several other movies, TV shows and movies, and mini series. He also received an Academy Honorary Award, becoming the first Native American and the second North American Indigenous person to be honored by the Academy, the first was Buffy Sainte-Marie, a First Nations Canadian Indigenous musician

04/25/2026

At the ripe age of 137, White Wolf a.k.a. Chief John Smith is considered the oldest Native American to have ever lived, 1785–1922.
The Minneapolis Morning Tribune obituary says Ga-Be-Nah-Gewn-Wonce (variously known as Kay-bah-nung-we-way, Sloughing Flesh, Wrinkled Meat or plain old — well, really old — John Smith) was reputed to be 137 years old when he died. Whatever his precise age, his well-lined face indicates a man who led a long and full life.

04/24/2026

November is Native American Heritage Month! And of course, Oklahoma is home to 39 diverse tribal nations—many of which were forcibly removed to this area.
Photo of Suzanne and Samuel Gover with their children (Pawnee Nation), undated (2619, OHS Photograph Collection)

04/23/2026

THE EAGLE, Roland W. Reed, 1913. Three Piegan, Montana Blackfeet, posed in Glacier National Park in northwest Montana. Roland W. Reed's heroic compositions paid tribute to earlier times. His romantic images displayed technical brilliance in lighting, focus, and form. Reed and other pictorialists helped establish photography as a fine art, worthy of display in museums.
Roland Reed started his photographic career in 1893 with Daniel Dutro in Havre, Montana. The first book about Reed was published in 2012: "Alone with the Past: The Life and Photographic Art of Roland W. Reed.” If using a PC, click image to enlarge.

04/22/2026

04/21/2026

Eagle Arrow. A Siksika man. Montana. Early 1900s. Glass lantern slide by Walter McClintock. Source - Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

04/20/2026

“Before I was six years old, my grandparents and my mother had taught me that if all the green things that grow were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all the four-legged creatures were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all the winged creatures were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all our relatives who crawl and swim and live within the earth were taken away, there could be no life. But if all the human beings were taken away, life on earth would flourish. That is how insignificant we are.”

Russell Means, Oglala Lakota Nation (November 10, 1939 – October 22, 2012).

04/19/2026

Carlos Santana responded after a fake post circulated on Facebook claiming he supported ICE.
“There is a fake post that I stand with ICE — that is a total lie. I stand with the people, not with ICE,” he said.

04/18/2026

We are not immigrants stop calling us that, it feeds into their lies. We have been here before borders criminalized us. Please do your research. Misinformation, lies, and propaganda is the reason people think we are foreigners and outsiders, we are American by ties to the land, not a piece of paper. We cannot be illegal on our own stolen lands..
It’s time to wake the masses and amplify Indigenous voices. The truth will liberate us all..

04/17/2026

This is true.