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“Mary Greyeyes being blessed by her native Chief prior to leaving for service in the CWAC.” September 29, 1942.Mary Grey...
08/27/2026

“Mary Greyeyes being blessed by her native Chief prior to leaving for service in the CWAC.” September 29, 1942.
Mary Greyeyes (Reid) was the first Native woman to join the Canadian Forces and one of only 25 Native women to serve in the Canadian military during World War II.

Elizabeth Marie Tallchief, Osage, (24 Jan 1925 – 11 Apr 2013), she is known worldwide as the first American Prima Baller...
08/26/2026

Elizabeth Marie Tallchief, Osage, (24 Jan 1925 – 11 Apr 2013), she is known worldwide as the first American Prima Ballerina and the first Native American to hold this status. Born on the Osage Indian Reservation in Oklahoma, Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief, was the daughter of Alexander Joseph Tall Chief and Ruth Mary Porter Tall Chief (Scottish/Irish). In 1953, Tallchief was given the name of Wa-Xthe-Thomba, meaning "Woman of Two Worlds." She began studying ballet at the age of 12 under the great Madame Nijinska. Tallchief performed with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo from 1942 to 1947 and the New York City Ballet from 1947 to 1965. Tallchief's 1949 performance of Balanchine's "The Firebird" in 1949 made her world famous and she was the first Sugarplum Fairy in Balanchine's Nutcracker. Tallchief retired in 1965 and started the Chicago City Ballet in 1981 with her sister Marjorie, also an acclaimed ballerina. Among many other awards and honors, Tallchief received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1996.

CLEGHORN, MILDRED IMOCH (1910–1997).Traditional doll maker, schoolteacher, and Fort Sill Apache tribal leader, Mildred I...
08/26/2026

CLEGHORN, MILDRED IMOCH (1910–1997).
Traditional doll maker, schoolteacher, and Fort Sill Apache tribal leader, Mildred Imoch (En-Ohn or Lay-a-Bet) was born a prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, on December 11, 1910. Her grandfather had followed Geronimo into battle, and her grandparents and parents were imprisoned with the Chiricahua Apache in Florida, Alabama, and at Fort Sill. Her family was one of only seventy-five that chose to remain at Fort Sill instead of relocating to the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico in 1913.
Mildred Cleghorn attended school in Apache, Oklahoma, at Haskell Institute in Kansas, and at Oklahoma State University, receiving a degree in home economics in 1941. After she finished her formal education, she spent several years as a home extension agent in Kansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico, and then worked for sixteen years as a home economics teacher, first at Fort Sill Indian School at Lawton and then at Riverside Indian School at Anadarko. Later, she taught kindergarten at Apache Public School in Apache. She was married to William G. Cleghorn, whom she had met in Kansas, and their union produced a daughter, Peggy. In 1976 Mildred Cleghorn became chairperson of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, newly organized as a self-governing entity. Her leadership in that government revolved around preserving traditional history and culture. She retired from the post at age eighty-five in 1995.
Cleghorn's many awards and recognitions included a human relations fellowship at Fisk University in 1955, the Ellis Island Award in 1987, and the Indian of the Year Award in 1989. She also served as an officer in the North American Indian Women's Association, as secretary of the Southwest Oklahoma Intertribal Association, and as treasurer of the American Indian Council of the Reformed Church of America.
Above all, Mildred Cleghorn was a cultural leader. She spent a lifetime creating dolls authentically clothed to represent forty of the tribes she had encountered in her teaching career. Her work was exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Her life ended in an automobile accident near Apache on April 15, 1997.

David Midthunder, Gerald Auger, August Schellenberg and Graham Greene
08/25/2026

David Midthunder, Gerald Auger, August Schellenberg and Graham Greene

“Captain Jack”, Kintpuash (c. 1837-1873)Modoc Tribe, Oregon and CaliforniaKintpuash was born near Tule Lake, an area tha...
08/25/2026

“Captain Jack”, Kintpuash (c. 1837-1873)
Modoc Tribe, Oregon and California
Kintpuash was born near Tule Lake, an area that now straddles the Oregon-California border. The ancestral homeland of the Modoc Peoples consisted of 5,000 acres until 1864 when they were forcibly removed by the federal government to the lands of their neighbors on the newly-created Klamath Reservation. The Klamath was a much larger tribe than the Modoc, and conflict was inevitable.
Now casually referred to as “Captain Jack” by white colonizers, Kintpuash stood firm. In 1865 he led a band of Modoc from the reservation back to their lands in California. Four years went by before the United States army rounded them up again and back to Klamath territory, but Kintpuash was undaunted. In 1870 he marched back home again with 180 of his Modoc kinsmen.

The government’s outright refusal to allow the Modoc back into their homelands led to the outbreak of the Modoc War from 1872 to 1873.

Kintpuash fled with his band into the area now protected as the Lava Beds National Monument, and they settled into this natural fortress. His warriors made use of its many caves and trenches in the lava beds for defensive fighting, and women and children could be sheltered there. When the Modoc were finally located, the Army launched an attack on January 17, 1873. The US Army was beaten in this conflict but they weren’t retreating either.
Kintpuash’s advisers suggested that the Army would leave if their warriors killed its leader General Edward Canby, (the future namesake of the town of Canby, Oregon) but Kintpuash hoped for a peaceful solution that would allow his people to stay in their territory.
It wasn’t to be. During the next meeting of the peace commission on April 11, Kintpuash and several other Modoc broke down and drew pistols at a prearranged signal; he shot General Canby twice in the head. For this, he was executed on October 3, 1873.

The area of the Lava Beds National Monument where Captain Jack and his men held out against the United States Army is now known as Captain Jack’s Stronghold. It took until 1984 for Kintpuash’s skull to be returned for proper reburial by his Modoc descendants. He is buried at Fort Klamath Park, Oregon.

Rodney Arnold Grant (born March 9, 1959) is an American actor.Rodney Arnold Grant, a Native American, was raised on the ...
08/24/2026

Rodney Arnold Grant (born March 9, 1959) is an American actor.
Rodney Arnold Grant, a Native American, was raised on the Omaha Reservation in Macy, Nebraska. He is probably most well known for his role as "Wind In His Hair" in the 1990 film Dances with Wolves. He has also appeared in other films such as John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, Wild Wild West, Geronimo: An American Legend, White Wolves III: Cry of the White Wolf, Wagons East!, The Substitute, War Party, and Powwow Highway. In television, he played the part of "Chingachgook" in the series Hawkeye that aired in 1994-1995. He has also had guest roles in a television series such as Due South, Two, and the Stargate SG-1 episode "Spirits". He also portrayed the famous warrior Crazy Horse in the 1991 television movie Son of the Morning Star.
Rodney Arnold Grant is a member of the Omaha tribe of Nebraska. He has been very active in youth activities and had served on the Native American Advisory Board for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. He has five grown children, three from a previous marriage, and two from previous relationships. He currently resides in southern California.
Mr Grant illustrates a clash of cultures here at an awards ceremony, by appearing in both the customary evening attire and a traditional headdress. Blessed are those who know themselves, and remember where they came from.

Ongotoya (Solitary Traveler) and Son, 1892Kiowa people are a Native American tribe and an indigenous people of the Great...
08/24/2026

Ongotoya (Solitary Traveler) and Son, 1892
Kiowa people are a Native American tribe and an indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in the 17th and 18th centuries, and eventually into the Southern Plains by the early 19th century.

(Born 1863-Died December 18, 1923)a.k.a. George Jackson and Buffalo Sundown,Waaya-Tonah-Toesits-Kahn (meaning “Earth Lef...
08/23/2026

(Born 1863-Died December 18, 1923)
a.k.a. George Jackson and Buffalo Sundown,
Waaya-Tonah-Toesits-Kahn (meaning “Earth Left by the Setting Sun”), also spelled We-ah-te-nato-ots-ha (meaning “Blanket of the Sun”)
Jackson Sundown, a nephew of Chief Joseph, was with him on the flight of the Nez Perce in 1877. He was the first native American to win a World Championship Bronc Rider title in 1916, at the age of 53, more than twice the age of the other competitors who made it to the final round. He is also the oldest person to ever win a rodeo world championship title. He was posthumously inducted into the Pendleton Round-Up Hall of Fame in 1972, into the National Cowboys of Color Museum and Hall of Fame in 1983, and the American Indian Athletes Hall of Fame in 1994.
Historical accounts of his life cite that Sundown, at a young age, displayed the traits of an athlete, riding his Appaloosa pony from the time he could walk. At age 14, his knack for handling horses earned him the privilege of caring for his tribes’ horses and herding them when they moved camp during the turbulent 1877 Nez Perce War. On Aug. 9, 1877, the daring young Sundown displayed his stealth when his people were ambushed by the forces of the U.S. cavalry at Big Hole in southwestern Montana territory where they suffered many casualties, including women and children. Waaya-Tonah-Toesits-Kahn, although badly burned, outwitted the enemy and survived by hiding under a buffalo robe after they had torched his mother’s teepee where he had been sleeping. Another legendary account of Sundown’s bravery was when the Nez Perce, en route to Sitting Bulls camp in Canada, stopped to rest near Snake Creek in the Bear Paw Mountains just 40 miles south of the Canadian border. Unbeknownst to the Nez Perce, Brigadier General Nelson H. Miles had been dispatched to find and intercept them. Combined U.S. forces made an early morning surprise attack on the Nez Perce and after a three day stand-off, the war weary Chief Joseph surrendered and declared he would “fight no more forever.” Sundown, again displaying his prowess as a renegade Nez Perce warrior, escaped, although being wounded, “by clinging to the side of his horse so that it appeared riderless.” Despite having no blankets or food, he and a small band of survivors made their way to Sitting Bull’s camp in Canada. Sundown is said to have lived in hiding with Sitting Bull and those that defeated General George Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn as a war criminal for two years.

Chief Sitting Bull. Hunkpapa Lakota. Late 1800s. Photo by F. A. Rinehart
08/23/2026

Chief Sitting Bull. Hunkpapa Lakota. Late 1800s. Photo by F. A. Rinehart

Teaching our wakanyeja lakota language, songs, and culture.Our children will lead our healing and bring back our sacred ...
08/22/2026

Teaching our wakanyeja lakota language, songs, and culture.
Our children will lead our healing and bring back our sacred ways.

"Wicouncage lena lakol wicohan glukinipinktelo. - our generation will revive our lakota ways."

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