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Lakota Man

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25 Jun

June 25th 1876, two Indigenous warrior women, Buffalo Calf Road Woman (Cheyenne) and Pretty Nose (Arapaho) participated in the Battle of Little Bighorn. Buffalo Calf Road Woman (left) killed George Custer, clubbing him on the head, while on horseback—ending his reign of terror.

George Armstrong Custer’s Crow and Arikara scouts repeatedly warned him not to take the 7th Cavalry down into the Little Bighorn Valley. When Custer arrogantly refused to do so, they began to sing their death songs. Custer’s entire command was wiped out that day. June 25th, 1876.

When Mark Soldier Wolf returned from the Korean War in 1952, his 101 year old grandmother, Pretty Nose, hero of Little Bighorn was waiting. She was adorned in buckskin and her cuffs signified her rank as a war chief. As he approached her, he could hear her singing her war song.

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Lakota Man

@LakotaMan1

27 May

Ancient Indigenous cultures throughout North America have the same stone etchings of giant winged beings—reportedly visiting them—long ago. Then abruptly leaving, without a trace.

Hopi Holy Ghost pictographs, some dating back 10,000 years, depict the same giant anthropomorphic entities found in a myriad of Neolithic civilizations across the globe. I believe their origins hold extraterrestrial significance.

High definition satellite image of the Nazca geoglyphs. As enigmatic and mysterious as the ancient Indigenous people who created them.

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Lakota Man

@LakotaMan1

5 May

The U.S. slaughtered 150 million buffalo—and then had the nerve to call Natives savages.

“Why couldn’t they just leave us alone? We never killed more than our fill. And less than our share. Can they ever say the same?”

“Whatever you do to the animals—you do to yourself.”

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Lakota Man

@LakotaMan1

20 Feb

My great-unci (grandmother) was a midwife back in the day, delivering Native babies on the rez, and a few white babies in town. On her 83rd birthday she brought one last new born into the world, the Creator journeyed her home in her sleep. I honor her by keeping her story alive.

When my mother was a girl, she accompanied great-unci Rose as her helper, birthing babies on the reservation. It was great-unci Rose who hid my mother in her basement when the Jesuits from the boarding school came to take her away. Such acts of heroism were commonplace back then.

Great-unci Rose owned a home and a small plot of land on the outskirts of Rapid City, South Dakota. During the freezing winter months she would leave baskets of food and blankets in her fields for the Indians still living “in the wild.” The next day the baskets would be gone.

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Lakota Man

@LakotaMan1

16 Feb

Texas loses power—Declare a national emergency.

1 in 3 Navajo have no running water. Navajo Nation water contaminated by uranium mining—‘crickets.’

Indian reservations sit atop land teeming with untapped natural resources. When corporate interests exploit these lands, Natives receive next to nothing in financial compensation. It’s a 500 year long narrative of settlers taking from Native communities—without giving back.

@DebHaalandNM

@DebHaalandNM joined the protest at Standing Rock, she opposes fracking as well. Congressional republicans are opposing her confirmation as Secretary of the Interior, citing her actions battling climate change as—too militant. She’s actually the perfect Native woman for the job.

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