Tribal Nations

12/15/2024

"Why Isn’t This Map in the History Books?
Native Tribes of North America Mapped
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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.
Native Tribes of North America Mapped
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11/03/2024

The Wichahpi Commemorative Stone Wall (Tom Hendrix' Wall) in Visit Florence, AL.
Tom spent more than 30 years building a stone wall in memory of his great-great-grandmother, who was part of the American Indian removal to Oklahoma, "The Trail of Tears." The wall is the largest un-mortared stone wall in the U.S. and the largest memorial to a Native American woman.
📍Milepost 338
National Park Service Natchez Trace Parkway

11/02/2024

Summerville, South Carolina, 1938...

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Family of a Native American sharecropper. Their home is shown behind them...

Source
Farm Security Administration Marion Post Wolcott photographer

11/01/2024

𝐋𝐎𝐙𝐄𝐍 (𝟏𝟖𝟒𝟎-𝟏𝟖𝟖𝟗)
was a Native American warrior and prophet woman for the Chihenne Chiricahua Apache. She and her brother fought against those who had taken their land in New Mexico, she was always the sister of Victorino, who was chief.

Lozen was known for using her gifts during battle to learn the movements of her enemies how. She could could ride, shoot,
and fight like a man. She is known for escorting a new mother and her infant across the Chihuanhuan Desert from Mexico to the Mescalero Apache Reservation to escape the fighting and death. Not only did LOZEN safely deliver the to their final destination, but she also escaped gun fire, stole a horse, killed for food, and aquired much needed tools and provisions along the way. She's so much more than a Native American who could fight-she's an out right legend.

Lozen and others attempted to negotiate a peace treaty with the Americans but failed, and sadly she died of tuberculosis while imprisoned in Alabama. She was an American Native Hero and an easy inclusion on our list of amazing Native American women.

-a.necochealugo

11/01/2024

Don't know why this hasn't received more publicity, but this fifty-foot sculpture was unveiled recently in South Dakota.
It's called 'Dignity' and was done by artist Dale Lamphere to honor the women of the Sioux Nation.

10/31/2024

“Drink water from the spring where horses drink. The horse will never drink bad water. Lay your bed where the cat sleeps. Eat the fruit that has been touched by a worm. Boldly pick the mushroom on which the insects sit. Plant the tree where the mole digs. Build your house where the snake sits to warm itself. Dig your fountain where the birds hide from the heat. Go to sleep and wake up at the same time with the birds – you will reap all of the days' golden grains. Eat more green – you will have strong legs and a resistant heart, like the beings of the forest. Swim often and you will feel on earth like the fish in the water. Look at the sky as often as possible and your thoughts will become light and clear. Be quiet a lot, speak little – and silence will come in your heart, and your spirit will be calm and full of peace.”
Saint Seraphim of Sarov
Nature is talking to you, are you listening?

10/31/2024

Geronimo was an Apache leader and medicine man best known for his fearlessness in resisting anyone–Mexican or American—who attempted to remove his people from their tribal lands. He repeatedly evaded capture and life on a reservation, and during his final escape, a full quarter of the U.S. standing army pursued him and his followers. Here are some interesting facts about Geronimo that you may not know:
1. The origins of his name are disputed. The man who would become the most feared Indian leader of the 19th century was born sometime in the 1820s into the Bedonkohe, the smallest band of the Chiricahua Apache tribe that inhabited what is now New Mexico and Arizona. His given name was Goyahkla (“The One Who Yawns”), but as a young man he earned the moniker “Geronimo” after distinguishing himself in Apache raids against the Mexicans. The source of the name remains the subject of debate. Some historians believed it arose from frightened Mexican soldiers invoking the Catholic St. Jerome when facing the warrior in battle, while others argue that it was simply a Mexican nickname or a mispronunciation of “Goyahkla.”
2. Geronimo’s wife and children were murdered when he was a young man. Geronimo came of age during a period of bitter conflict between the Chiricahua Apaches and the Mexicans. In response to the Apaches’ penchant for staging raids to gather horses and provisions, the Mexican government had begun ambushing Apache settlements and offering lucrative bounties for their scalps. In 1851, while Geronimo and several other warriors were in the town of Janos on a trading mission, Colonel Jose Maria Carrasco and a detachment of around 400 Mexican soldiers ransacked his Bedonkohe encampment and slaughtered many of its inhabitants. When Geronimo returned later that night, he found that his mother, his wife and his three young children had all been murdered.
3. He broke out of U.S. Indian reservations on three different occasions. In the 1840s and 1850s, the Mexican-American War and the Gadsden Purchase placed the Chiricahua Apaches’ domain within the boundaries of the expanding United States. Geronimo and the Apaches violently resisted the influx of white settlers, but following several years of war with the U.S. Army, they reluctantly negotiated a peace. By 1876, most of the Chiricahuas had been shipped to San Carlos, an arid and inhospitable reservation located in Arizona. Geronimo avoided the reservation until 1877, when he was captured by Indian agents and brought to San Carlos in chains.
4. He was an accomplished artist who sold paintings to tourists late in life.
5. He was also an accomplished horseman who could ride standing up on two horses at once.
6. He died at Fort Sill, Oklahoma on February 17th, 1909.

10/31/2024

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” —Elvis Presley, Cherokee
🧬Proud of the indigenous blood that runs through our veins.

10/31/2024

10/30/2024

Beautiful Native American Elder

10/30/2024

When someone makes the world's largest
Fry bread Indian taco. ✊🐻🎉