Native American Community

05/13/2026

Tacankpe Luta (aka Scarlet Colored War Club, aka Red Tomahawk, aka Marcellus Red Tomahawk) - Yanktonai Dakota/Hunkpapa Lakota - before his death in 1931

05/12/2026

So true✊

05/12/2026

A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its own wings.
Native Red Cloud
Pine Ridge SD-Oglala Lakota CO
''SPIRIT OF THE THUNDERBIRD'' by Chris Navarro bronze sculptures at Navarro Gallery and Outdoor sculpture garden in Tlaquepaque arts village Sedona Arizona

05/12/2026

**“LISTEN TO THE WIND. IT TALKS.”
— A NATIVE AMERICAN WAY OF KNOWING**

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For Native American peoples, knowledge has never come from books alone.
It comes from listening — to the land, to the sky, to silence, and to the heart.
Long before borders were drawn, Native nations understood that the world is alive. The wind carries messages. The earth remembers footsteps. Silence is never empty — it is filled with meaning.
This wisdom lives in the teaching:
“Listen to the wind. It talks.
Listen to the silence. It speaks.
Listen to your heart. It knows.”
THE WIND AS A TEACHER
In many Native traditions, the wind is more than air in motion.
It is a messenger.
The wind carries prayers upward, brings warnings of change, and reminds people that nothing stands alone. To listen to the wind is to acknowledge that humans are not above nature — they are part of it.
Hunters listened to the wind to survive.
Ceremonies listened to the wind to stay in balance.
Elders listened to the wind to understand what was coming.
SILENCE HOLDS VOICE
Silence is sacred in Native cultures.
It is where truth gathers strength.
In silence, one hears the ancestors.
In silence, the mind stops arguing.
In silence, wisdom rises.
Colonization tried to replace silence with commands, rules, and noise — but Native silence endured. It protected language, ceremony, and memory when speaking openly was dangerous.
THE HEART REMEMBERS WHAT HISTORY TRIED TO ERASE
For Native peoples, the heart is not separate from the mind.
It is a place of knowing.
Even after forced removals, broken treaties, boarding schools, and bans on ceremony, the heart remembered what laws tried to destroy. The heart carried identity when names were changed. The heart carried songs when voices were taken away.
The heart knew who the people were — even when the world refused to listen.
A TEACHING FOR TODAY
In a modern world filled with noise, speed, and distraction, Native wisdom offers another way forward.
Slow down.
Listen deeper.
Trust what is older than fear.
The wind still talks.
Silence still speaks.
And the heart still knows.

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05/11/2026

LONG HAIR
Traditionally, long hair was always a symbol of masculinity. All of history's great warriors had long hair, from the Greeks (who wrote odes to their heroes' hair) to the Nordic, from the American Indians (famous for their long shiny hair) to the Japanese. And the longer and beautiful the hair was, the more manly the warrior was considered. Vikings flaunted their braids and samurai wore their long hair as a symbol of their honor (they cut their braid when they lose honor).
When a warrior was captured, his mane was cut to humiliate him, to take away his beauty. That custom resumed in what is today military service. There when new soldiers begin their training the first thing they do is cut their hair to undermine their self-esteem, make them submissive and make them see who's boss.
The Romans were the ones who "invented" short hair so to speak, between the 1st and 5th centuries AD.. In battles they believed this gave them defensive advantages, since their opponents couldn't grab them by the hair. This also helped them to recognize each other in the battlefield.
Short hair on men is a relatively new "invention" that has nothing to do with aesthetics.
But today we often see men being humiliated, sometimes called "gay" for wearing long hair, not knowing that short hair is actually the "anti-masculine" and is a repressive social imposition, while long hair symbolizes freedom

05/11/2026

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.
Photo Courtesy~imdb

05/11/2026

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In a quiet forest long before the rise of cities, a young boy named
Takoda sat beside his grandfather as twilight brushed the sky with deep hues of purple and gold. The elders had gathered for the full moon, and tonight, the sacred drum would sing again.

Takoda’s heart beat fast with excitement and a touch of fear. His grandfather, a wise and gentle soul, placed a hand on the boy’s shoulder and whispered, “Do you hear it, grandson? The drum is not just a sound. It is the echo of Mother Earth’s breath. When we drum, we speak her language.”

As the circle formed and the drum’s first beat echoed through the trees, Takoda felt something shift. His own heartbeat fell in rhythm with the sound. Around him, the people swayed gently — red, yellow, black, and white — different faces, one spirit. With each beat, he felt the stories of the land, the animals, and his ancestors flowing into him like a river of memory.

That night, Takoda understood: the drum was more than a song — it was a bridge. It connected all hearts, all colors, all stories — to the living soul of Mother Earth.

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05/10/2026

For generations, the Blackfoot Confederacy has carried a powerful truth in their oral traditions — a truth now confirmed by modern science. 🌄✨

New genetic research reveals that the ancestors of the Blackfoot people come from a unique lineage that separated from other Indigenous groups nearly 18,000 years ago. This previously unknown ancestral line connects today’s Blackfoot communities directly to the ancient peoples of the northern Plains.

The link is undeniable. The DNA found in ancient remains matches the DNA of Blackfoot descendants living today — a continuous thread of identity stretching across thousands of years, long before written records ever existed.

This discovery is more than science; it is validation. It honors Blackfoot oral history, affirms their deep-rooted presence on the land, and highlights what becomes possible when researchers and Indigenous communities work together with respect.

It is a reminder that Indigenous stories are not just history — they are evidence. They are truth. 🖤

05/10/2026

"Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men,
we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents.
Without a prison, there can be no delinquents.
We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves.
When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket,
he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.
We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property.
We didn't know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being
was not determined by his wealth.
We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians,
therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another.
We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don't know
how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things
that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society."
- John (Fire) Lame Deer, Sioux Lakota - 1903-1976

05/10/2026

"The Church Without Walls"
They asked me once, "Where is your church?"
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I smiled and pointed to the horizon.

“To the east, where the sun rises and paints the sky with fire - there, I begin my prayers.
To the north, where the winds carry the wisdom of the ancestors - I listen and learn.
To the west, where the sun dies gently each day - I give thanks for the lessons.
To the south, where life grows and renews - I find healing and hope.”

My church does not have doors, but it welcomes all.
Its roof is the sky, sometimes fierce with storms, sometimes calm with stars.
Its walls are made of pine and river, stone and silence.
And its teachings are written in birdsong, in paw prints, in the way the water moves over stone.

Nature is not something I worship.
It is something I belong to.

I carry no book, for the Earth writes stories in every leaf and every breath.
I follow no preacher, but I follow the wolf, the crow, the cedar tree.
They have never lied to me.

So no, I don’t need a building to find my spirit.
I just need to stand barefoot in the soil and remember:

The Earth is my church.
And nature is my religion.

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05/09/2026