The Native American Thread

[IceWizard]

Been looking at a lot of events involving our native Americans...
Heart breaking to say the very least...

Here's a couple-0-pics:::::

[Furyan66]

Good Evening all...

Great Thread Ice...

Yea I don't think a LOT of Americans realize

Peace ALL

Fury


   

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Good Evening all...

Great Thread Ice...

Yea I don't think a LOT of Americans realize what our ancestors did to these indigenous people when they first encountered each other in the "new world".

Very Sad

Peace ALL

Fury

[IceWizard]

COMANCHE , 1890

[IceWizard]

Chief La-Roo-Chuck-A-La-Shar ~ Sun Chief





Cetasi Kinyan-- Flying Hawk





Sioux Chief, C1905





Photo. 1897. - Chief Mountain





Red Horse - Tasunke Luta - ( Sioux )

[IceWizard]

Last Horse - Oglala Sioux in full war paint in 1899





Kills Alone - Oglala / Souix (Lacota)





Sans Arc Chief Black Eye - Ish-tah-sa-pah 1872




Little Horse Oglala 1899





Ghost Bear - Crow - 1908

[Linville]

Very interesting IceMan.

[IceWizard]

Cante Wanica (No Heart), Dakota Yanktonai Medicine Man, in Partial Native Dress
with Headdress and Holding Pipe - Densmore - 1912










"Navajo Buck", 1883

[thegreaseman]

Great topic for a thread. An interesting aesthetic and culture. I enjoyed reading the quotations, very timeless.

[IceWizard]

Chippewa (Ojibwe) pipe stem.





Native American Coyote Skull Rattle





Sioux hide and dew claw rattle, 1890





Arikara scout Little Brave, who was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn





"White Swan" Arikara Scout wounded at the Battle of Little Big Horn.





Close up of Quanah Parker (~1845-1911), the Last Comanche chief.
Quanah's 2nd wife in 1872 was Weakeah, daughter of Penateka Comanche subchief Yellow Bear (aka Old Bear).
Although first espoused to another warrior, she and Quanah eloped, and took several other warriors with them.
It was from this small group that the large Quahadi band would form. Yellow Bear pursued the band and eventually
Quanah made peace with him. The two bands united, forming the largest force of Comanche Indians. Wikipedia

[reilli]

This is a really great thread! 

I love this quote:
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about his religion.
Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours.
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
Seek to make your life long and of service to your people.
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Touch not the poisonous firewater that makes wise ones turn to fools and robs their spirit of its vision.
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

- Tecumseh, Shawnee (1768-1813)