Native Beauties

01/30/2026

We are big AHO

01/29/2026

01/28/2026

Tsianina Redfeather, a famous Creek/Cherokee singer and performer. Early 1900s. Source - Denver Public Library.Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone (December 13, 1882 – January 10, 1985) was a Muscogee singer, performer, and Native American activist, born in Eufaula, Oklahoma, then within the Muscogee Nation. She was born to Cherokee and Creek parents and stood out from her 9 siblings musically. From 1908 she toured regularly with Charles Wakefield Cadman, a composer and pianist who gave lectures about Native American music that were accompanied by his compositions and her singing. He composed classically based works associated with the Indianist movement. They toured in the United States and Europe.She collaborated with him and Nelle Richmond Eberhart on the libretto of the opera Shanewis (or "The Robin Woman," 1918), which was based on her semi-autobiographical stories and contemporary issues for Native Americans. It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera. Redfeather sang the title role when the opera was on tour, making her debut when the work was performed in Denver in 1924, and also performing in it in Los Angeles in 1926.
After her performing career, she worked as an activist on Indian education, co-founding the American Indian Education Foundation. She also supported Native American archeology and ethnology, serving on the Board of Managers for the School of American Research founded in Santa Fe by Alice Cunningham Fletcher.

01/27/2026

Crazy Horse, of the Oglala Lakota tribe, played an integral role in the Battle of Little Bighorn, also known as Custer’s Last Stand. His likeness is now carved into a Black Hills mountain at The Crazy Horse Memorial. The famous leader resisted having his photograph taken, often responding to picture requests with “would you imprison my shadow too?” The memorial sculptor created his likeness based on descriptions from those who knew him. The grand visage, cut into granite, intends to honor the Native American values that Crazy Horse fought for and defended...!

01/27/2026

Oh Great Spirit who speaks to our heart and lives in our soul. Teach us the ways of harmony, love and healing when we go to our sacred place in nature, guide our hearts to walk only in beauty on Mother Earth, and to honor and respect all that is living. Help us to heal all the past trauma that we carry with us, and let us become empty, open vessels so you may fill us with your enlightenment and love.

Help us to protect all the voiceless who cannot speak on their own behalf, the four legged, the flyers, the crawlers, and the trees. Oh Great Spirit give us compassion when we are troubled, give us love when we feel alone, give us healing when we are sick. Oh Great Spirit hear my prayers.

01/23/2026

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