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11/02/2025

Zahn Tokiya-ku McClarnon is an American actor of Native American descent, born on October 24, 1966, in Denver, Colorado, USA. He is of Hunkpapa Lakota heritage, a Native American tribe within the Lakota lineage. McClarnon has had a diverse and successful acting career, appearing in films, television shows, and on stage.
One of McClarnon's most notable roles is as Mathias in the A&E television series "Longmire." This role helped him gain attention from the public and marked his presence in the film industry. McClarnon has also participated in other film and television projects such as "Fargo," "Westworld," "Barkskins," and "Doctor Sleep."
Beyond his acting career, McClarnon has contributed to Native American culture by portraying characters and stories of the Native American community on screen. His roles often carry a humanitarian aspect and reflect the issues and experiences of Native Americans in modern society. He has worked diligently to portray diversity and depth in his roles, helping to increase awareness and understanding of Native American culture and life.
By engaging in film and television projects and portraying Native American characters with sensitivity and authenticity, Zahn Tokiya-ku McClarnon has contributed to the diversification and development of the entertainment industry while honoring and respecting the culture of the Native American community. Additionally, McClarnon has been actively involved in social and political activities within the Native American community, using his influence to advocate for the rights and fairness of his people. Through his career and activism, he has become a symbol of pride and dedication to the Native American community, dedicating his life to shedding light on and contributing to the development and progress of this community.
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11/02/2025

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Wes Studi is a native American Cherokee actor and Vietnam veteran. Aside from the movies, he is an activist for both Native Americans and wounded combat veterans.
He was born on December 17, 1947, in Nofire Hollow, a mountainous area of Oklahoma, United States. Studi began his acting career in the late 1980s and gained recognition for his versatile and profound performances.
One of Studi's most famous roles is as Magua in the film "The Last of the Mohicans," where he portrayed a character full of strength and complexity. He is also known for his roles in films such as "Dances with Wolves" (1990), "Heat" (1995), "Avatar" (2009), and "Hostiles" (2017).
Throughout his career, Wes Studi has been honored with numerous awards, including the National Film Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cinema in 2019. Beyond acting, he is also a social and cultural activist for Native American communities, advocating for the preservation and respect of Cherokee and other Indigenous cultures.
Studi has been involved in educational and advisory activities, contributing to the introduction and teaching of Indigenous culture and history in schools, communities, and non-profit organizations. He has supported various artistic and cultural projects of Native American communities, from sponsoring cultural events to assisting young Indigenous artists in their careers.
Wes Studi's roles not only depict strong characters but also serve as symbols of the strength and reverence of Native Americans. In "Dances with Wolves" (1990), he portrayed a Sioux leader named Chief Ten Bears.
His contributions have helped promote understanding and respect for the cultural and historical heritage of Native Americans in American society.
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11/01/2025

This map should be included in every history book...
History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It’s not yours for you to erase or destroy.
Why Isn’t This Map in the History Books?
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By the age of 10, most children in the United States have been taught all 50 states that make up the country. But centuries ago, the land that is now the United States was a very different place. Over 20 million Native Americans dispersed across over 1,000 distinct tribes, bands, and ethnic groups populated the territory.
The ancestors of living Native Americans arrived in North America about 15 thousand years ago. As a result, a wide diversity of communities, societies, and cultures finally developed on the continent over the millennia.The population figure for Indigenous peoples in the Americas before the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus was 70 million or more.
About 562 tribes inhabited the contiguous U.S. territory. Ten largest North American Indian tribes: Arikara, Cherokee, Iroquois, Pawnee, Sioux, Apache, Eskimo, Comanche, Choctaw, Cree, Ojibwa, Mohawk, Cheyenne, Navajo, Seminole, Hope, Shoshone, Mohican, Shawnee, Mi’kmaq, Paiute, Wampanoag, Ho-Chunk, Chumash, Haida.
Below is the tribal map of Pre-European North America.
The old map below gives a Native American perspective by placing the tribes in full flower ~ the “Glory Days.” It is pre-contact from across the eastern sea or, at least, before that contact seriously affected change. Stretching over 400 years, the time of contact was quite different from tribe to tribe. For instance, the “Glory Days” of the Maya and Aztec came to an end very long before the interior tribes of other areas, with some still resisting almost until the 20th Century.
At one time, numbering in the millions, the native peoples spoke close to 4,000 languages.
The Americas’ European conquest, which began in 1492, ended in a sharp drop in the Native American population through epidemics, hostilities, ethnic cleansing, and slavery.
When the United States was founded, established Native American tribes were viewed as semi-independent nations, as they commonly lived in communities separate from white immigrants.
“The Map That Should Have Been in Every Book”
This map breathes —
not ink on paper,
but bloodlines and voices
woven through rivers and roots.
Before borders carved the earth,
these lands had names that sang:
Navajo, Haida, Lakota,
Carib, Maya, Shawnee.
Every mountain had a memory,
every lake, a legend;
the wind itself spoke
in a thousand mother tongues.
Yet the classrooms stayed silent,
and the children learned
that discovery began with ships—
not with hearts that already belonged.
If only this map hung
in every school, every home,
perhaps the world would remember
who first called this land Mother.
Let them see the colors of the tribes,
the stories drawn in smoke and soil,
and know:
the map was never lost —
only hidden.

11/01/2025

The beloved actor Sam Elliott was born in Sacramento, California on this day in 1944. He turns 81 today!
Samuel Pack Elliott (1944) is an American actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award and a National Board of Review Award.
He has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Emmy Awards. Elliott was cast in the musical drama A Star Is Born (2018), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding prizes at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards. He also won a National Board of Review Award. Elliott starred as Shea Brennan in the American drama miniseries 1883 (2021–2022), for which he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie.
Elliott is known for his distinctive lanky physique, full mustache, and deep, sonorous voice. He began his acting career with minor appearances in The Way West (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), season five of Mission: Impossible, and guest-starred on television in the Western Gunsmoke (1972) before landing his first lead film role in Frogs (1972). His film breakthrough was in the drama Lifeguard (1976). Elliott co-starred in the box office hit Mask (1985) and went on to star in several Louis L'Amour adaptations such as The Quick and the Dead (1987) and Conagher (1991), the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film. He received his second Golden Globe and first Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Buffalo Girls (1995). His other film credits from the early 1990s include as John Buford in the historical drama Gettysburg (1993) and as Virgil Earp in the Western Tombstone (also 1993). In 1998, he played the Stranger in The Big Lebowski.
In the 2000s, Elliott appeared in supporting roles in the drama We Were Soldiers (2002) and the superhero films Hulk (2003) and Ghost Rider (2007). In 2015, he guest-starred on the series Justified, which earned him a Critics' Choice Television Award, and in 2016 began starring in the Netflix series The Ranch. Elliott subsequently had a lead role in the comedy-drama The Hero.

11/01/2025

NOVEMBER IS NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE MONTH.
It's a chance to celebrate the rich and diverse cultures, traditions and histories and important contributions of Indigenous people in our country, along with acknowledging their hardship and struggles both throughout history and in the present day.
There are over 9 million Native American Indians and Native Alaskans living in the United States today. With over 500 federally recognized tribes, there are hundreds of different cultures that are as unique as the people they represent. From artwork and literature to cuisine and music, there is much to appreciate and learn.
For example in the State of Wisconsin, there are 11 federally
recognized tribes. During this month take the time to learn,
grow, and be aware of our nation’s first residents...
39 distinct First American Nations reside in Oklahoma. Our stories do not begin and end with European contact. The Apache, Caddo, Tonkawa, and Wichita inhabited these lands before the United States was established. Some tribes also have a historical relationship to this region, including the Comanche, Kiowa, Osage, and Quapaw. Many of us are not in Oklahoma by choice as our peoples were removed and relocated from their homelands across the continent, but after nearly 200 years, our histories and cultural lifeways are now interwoven into this landscape. Celebrate the vibrancy and resiliency of our diverse cultures this month and every month!
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10/27/2025

American Horse – A Shrewd Sioux Chief
One of the wittiest and shrewdest of the Sioux chiefs was American Horse, who succeeded to the name and position of an uncle, killed in the battle of Slim Buttes in 1876. The younger American Horse was born a little before the encroachments of the whites upon the Sioux country became serious and their methods aggressive, and his early manhood brought him into that most trying and critical period of our history. He had been tutored by his uncle since his own father was killed in battle while he was still very young. The American Horse band was closely attached to a trading post, and its members, in consequence, were inclined to be friendly with the whites, a policy closely adhered to by their leader.
When he was born, his old grandfather said: “Put him out in the sun! Let him ask his great-grandfather, the Sun, for the warm blood of a warrior!” And he had warm blood. He was a genial man, liking notoriety and excitement. He always seized an opportunity to leap into the center of the arena.
In early life, he was a clownish sort of boy among the boys —an expert mimic and impersonator. This talent made him popular and in his way a leader. He was a natural actor, and early showed marked ability as a speaker.
American Horse was about ten years old when he was attacked by three Crow warriors while driving a herd of ponies to water. Here he displayed native cunning and initiative. It seemed he had scarcely a chance to escape, for the enemy was near. He yelled frantically at the ponies to start them toward home, while he dropped off into a thicket of willows and hid there.
A part of the herd was caught in sight of the camp and there was a counter chase, but the Crows got away with the ponies. Of course, his mother was frantic, believing her boy had been killed or captured; but after the excitement was over, he appeared in camp unhurt. When questioned about his escape, he remarked: “I knew they would not take the time to hunt for small game when there was so much bigger close by.”
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10/27/2025

Why Isn’t This Map in the History Books?By the age of 10, most children in the United States have been taught all 50 states that make up the country. But centuries ago, the land that is now the United States was a very different place. Over 20 million Native Americans dispersed across over 1,000 distinct tribes, bands, and ethnic groups populated the territory.
History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It’s not yours for you to erase or destroy.

10/27/2025

The Native American boarding school system — a decades-long effort to assimilate Indigenous people before they ever reached adulthood — robbed children of their culture, family bonds and sometimes their lives.
For more than 150 years, spurred by federal assimilation policies beginning in the early 19th century, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were sent to boarding schools across the country. In many cases, they were forcibly removed from their homes.
Until recently, incomplete records and scant federal attention kept even the number of schools - let alone more details about how they functioned - unknown. A new accounting, the most comprehensive to date, shows that at least 523 institutions were part of the sprawling network in the U.S. system.
Many children faced beatings, malnutrition, hard labor and other forms of neglect and abuse. Some never returned to their families. Hundreds are known to have died, a toll expected to grow as research continues.
Wherever they were located or whoever ran them, the schools largely shared the mission of assimilating Indigenous students by erasing their culture. Children’s hair was cut off; their clothes were burned; they were given new, English names and were required to attend Christian religious services; and they were forced to perform manual labor, both on school premises and on surrounding farms. Those who dared to keep speaking their ancestral languages or observing their religious practices were often beaten.
While the boarding school era might seem like distant history, aging survivors, many in their 70s and 80s, are striving to ensure the harm that was done is remembered.”

10/26/2025

Native Blood
The fire still burns beneath my skin,
Ancestral voices call within.
Their songs are rivers, fierce and deep,
That guard the dreams my soul will keep.
Each heartbeat drums the ancient way,
The spirit’s path that will not sway.
Through smoke and stars, through loss and pain,
Their courage flows within my vein.
I am the child of sacred ground,
Where eagle cries and drums resound.
No matter where my feet have stood —
I live, I breathe — in Native blood.
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10/26/2025

"I Belong to the First Wind"
They told me,
"Go back to where you came from."
I turned to the earth beneath my feet
and whispered,
“I never left.”
I came from the firelight of the first stories,
told beside rivers that still remember our names.
I came from the footprints pressed into soil
long before maps gave these lands new names.
I came from cedar smoke and the cry of the hawk—
truths older than borders.
You see,
my homeland is not a point on your compass.
It is the breath of the mountain in morning mist,
the hush of pine before snowfall,
the rhythm of hoofbeats across an open plain.
You ask where I came from—
but it is you who came later,
raising fences in a land that once had none.
So I return, not in defiance,
but in remembrance.
I set my tent on your front lawn,
not as an act of anger,
but as a prayer:
that one day, you too might remember
what it means to belong,
not to own

10/26/2025

🪶 No One Is Illegal on Stolen Land 🪶
The image says it all—a wounded Native figure kneeling before a blood-stained American flag, a land soaked in centuries of struggle, survival, and silence.
"No one is illegal on stolen land" is not a political slogan. It's a truth etched into the very soil of North America. It reminds us that before borders, barbed wire, or immigration policies, there were sovereign nations. Apache. Lakota. Diné. Cherokee. Thousands of tribes. Thousands of years. This land was never empty.
Yet colonization did more than take land—it rewrote the narrative. It painted the original inhabitants as savages, and newcomers as discoverers. It built nations on broken treaties, forced removals, and the myth that Indigenous lives were somehow less valid.
So when modern policies label people “illegal” for seeking refuge, for crossing imaginary lines in search of survival, this phrase echoes back with piercing clarity:
You cannot be illegal on land that was never rightfully yours to begin with.
The suffering of Indigenous peoples is not just history—it’s present. The image of the bloodied Native figure isn’t just symbolic. It represents the real pain carried by Native communities to this day: missing women, stolen children, lost languages, erased cultures.
But it also represents resilience. Strength. The unbroken will to exist, resist, and remind the world of truths buried too long.
To truly honor this land, we must remember whose it was.
And to move forward justly, we must confront the uncomfortable reality:
Justice begins with truth.
Healing begins with acknowledgment.
And freedom must be shared, not stolen.

10/24/2025

🧬 A groundbreaking DNA study on the Cherokee people has uncovered genetic markers that don’t match any known Native American, European, or African lineage — sending shockwaves through science and history alike. 😱 What began as a simple ancestry project has turned into a mystery that could rewrite America’s origins and expose a truth some say was never meant to be found. 🌎💥
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