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06/27/2025

Congratulations - Lily Gladstone for being the first Native Indigenous Blackfeet/Nimíipuu Female in its eighty one year history, to win the Best Actress at the Golden Globe Awards for her role in "Killers of the Flower Moon!"
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"The villains are fairly obvious in “Flower Moon,” but Scorsese asks audiences to take a wider look at systemic racism, historical injustice and the corruptive influence of power and money, intriguingly tying together our past and present." ~ Brian Truitt,
"Gladstone, in the rare Scorsese film that gives center stage to a female character, is the emotional core here, and it's her face that stays etched in our memory."
~ Jocelyn Noveck
“This is for every little Rez kid, every little urban kid, every little Native kid out there who has a dream and is seeing themselves represented in our stories told by ourselves, in our own words..." ~ Lily Gladstone
"We Are Still Here!" 🪶
Top 📸: Mollie Kyle (Burkhart, Cobb) Osage, (1886-1937)
Bottom: Lily Gladstone, (Blackfeet-Nez Perce

06/25/2025

On July 21st, 1979 Jay Silverheels, became the first Indigenous Native to have a star commemorated on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Harold Jay Smith, was a full-blooded Mohawk, born May 26th,1912 on the Six Nations Indian Reservation in Ontario, Canada. He excelled in athletics, most notably in lacrosse. In 1931 he was among the first players chosen to play for the Toronto Tecumsehs, where he earned the nickname "Silverheels". And in 1997 he was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame as a veteran player. In 1938, he placed second in the middleweight class of the Golden Gloves tournament. This led to his working in motion pictures as an extra and stuntman in 1937. Billed variously as Harold Smith and Harry Smith, before taking the name Jay Silverheels. He appeared in low-budget features, mostly Westerns, and serials before landing his much loved and iconic role as Tonto on national tv from 1949 until 1957 along with two movies. In the early 1960s, he was a founding member of the Indian Actors Workshop, in Echo Park, Los Angeles. Where Native actors refine their skills. Today the workshop is still a well established institution. Silverheels died on March 5, 1980, from stroke, at age 67, in Calabasas, California. He was cremated at Chapel of the Pines Crematory, and his ashes were returned to the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario.

06/25/2025

"These four Chiefs were Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Geronimo and Red Cloud. Each of these forefathers played an important role in shaping their tribe's customs and history. Because of their influence over the shaping of Native American history, they are often referred to as the real founding fathers.!
Left-Right : Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud.".

06/24/2025

"SONNY SIXKILLER
Cherokee Nation-(1951-)
Sonny Sixkiller, an American Indian professional football player, quarterback position, is a Cherokee Nation tribal member. He was born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma on September 6, 1951. His family moved to Ashland, Oregon, when he was about one year old.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL STAR
Young Sonny attended Ashland High School in Ashland, Oregon, and wanted to play in-state college football for Oregon State, but they didn't offer him a scholarship (it's been said) because of his small size for professional football: 5'11"" and 171 lbs.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL STAR
However, Sixkiller did receive a scholarship to the University of Washington in Seattle. As a sophomore in 1970, he became the starting quarterback for the Washington Huskies and led the NCAA in passing. Sonny Sixkiller was a stand-out athlete and held some fifteen school athletic records.
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
In just 28 games (1970-1972), Sonny Sixkiller became one of the most popular players in Washington University athletic history.
AMERICAN INDIAN FOOTBALL STAR
Sonny Sixkiller established passing records at WU that stood for nearly 30 years. (David Eskenazi Collection) Note: Famous athlete pictured wearing Puma football shoes and Washington Huskies football uniform, circa 1970.
QUARTERBACK SIXKILLER wearing famous #6 purple football jersy and gold helmet photographed on the cover of ""Sports Illustrated"" magazine as the ""Washington Wonder,"" October 1971.
PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL
Sixkiller signed with the Philadelphia Bell (World Football League) in 1974. He signed with The Hawaiians in 1975 and played for them until the league folded. He participated in try outs with the San Diego Chargers in 1976.
AMERICAN INDIAN MOVIE STAR
Sonny Sixkiller starred opposite of the famous actor Burt Reynolds in ""The Longest Yard,"" a 1974 sports-drama comedy movie about prison inmates who played football against their prison guards...
History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It's not yours for you to erase or destroy".

06/24/2025

Devil's Tower, Wyoming.

06/23/2025

Beautiful romance between Sam and Elsa...

06/23/2025

"CONGRATS >>WES STUDIA'HO<
Wes Studi, a Cherokee Native American actor, made history by becoming the first Native American actor to win an Academy Award. He received the Special Award at the 11th Academy Awards in 2019. He was honored with this award for his significant contributions to the film industry and his special efforts in promoting diversity and representation of Native Americans in cinema. Studi has appeared in many famous films, including ""The Last of the Mohicans,"" ""Dances with Wolves,"" and ""Avatar."" His Oscar win has raised awareness and appreciation for the artists and stories of the Native American community in the film industry ".

06/22/2025

"Adam Beach (born November 11, 1972) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles as Victor Joseph in Smoke Signals; Frank Fencepost in Dance Me Outside; Tommy on Walker, Texas Ranger; Kickin' Wing in Joe Dirt; U.S. Marine Corporal Ira Hayes in Flags of Our Fathers; Private Ben Yahzee in Windtalkers; Dr. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee; NYPD Detective Chester Lake in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; and Officer Jim Chee in the film adaptations of Skinwalkers, Coyote Waits and A Thief of Time. He starred in the Canadian 2012–2014 series Arctic Air and played Slipknot in the 2016 film Su***de Squad. He also performed as Squanto in Disney's historical drama film Squanto: A Warrior's Tale. Most recently he has starred in Hostiles (2017) as Black Hawk and the Netflix original film Juanita (2019) as Jess Gardiner and Edward Nappo in Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog.🙏❤🐺.
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06/22/2025

E Aztecs weren't fooled by Cortés, but history sure was duped by this colonial myth..

06/21/2025

"𝐉𝐚𝐲 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 (born Harold Jay Smith; May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980) was an Indigenous Canadian actor and athlete. He was well known for his role as Tonto, the Native American companion of the Lone Ranger in the American Western television series The Lone Ranger.Jay Silverheels was born on Canada's Six Nation's Reserve and was one of 10 children. He was a star lacrosse player and a boxer before he entered films as a stuntman in 1938. He worked in a number of films through the 1940s before gaining notice as the Osceola brother in a Humphrey Bogart film Key Largo (1948). Most of Silverheels' roles consisted of bit parts as an Indian character. In 1949, he worked in the movie The Cowboy and the Indians (1949) with another ""B movie"" actor Clayton Moore. Later that year, Silverheels was hired to play the faithful Indian companion, Tonto, in the TV series The Lone Ranger (1949) series, which brought him the fame that his motion picture career never did.Silverheels recreated the role of Tonto in two big-screen color movies with Moore,The Lone Ranger (1956) and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958). After the TV series ended in 1957, Silverheels could not escape the typecasting of Tonto. He would continue to appear in an occasional film and television show but became a spokesperson to improve the portrayal of Indians in the media.Familiar Canadian Indian actor who shot to fame as Tonto, the faithful Indian companion of the masked man on the US television series The Lone Ranger (1949). A member of the Mohawk tribe of Canada's Six Nations Reserve, Silverheels excelled at wrestling, horse racing, football, boxing, and hockey, and became a renowned lacrosse player.With the help of actor Joe E. Brown,Silverheels obtained work as a stuntman and extra in Hollywood films. Following military service in World War II, Silverheels returned to film and landed small, often stereotypical roles as Indian warriors in Westerns. John Huston cast him as one of the fugitive Osceola brothers in Key Largo (1948), and Silverheels followed with the two roles that would define his career, Tonto and the Apache leader Geronimo, whom he would play several times beginning with the Western classic Broken Arrow (1950). Silverheels' enormous fame as Tonto overshadowed everything else, although it did not prevent him from playing other prominent roles. Even after completing The Lone Ranger (1949)series, Silverheels continued to reprise Tonto for commercials, comic guest spots, and spoofs.
Silverheels became an outspoken activist for Indian rights and a respected teacher within the Indian acting community. He appeared on talk and variety shows performing his own poetry. In later years, he began a second career as a harness racer. His health failed in the 1970s, and he died of a stroke in 1980, a beloved f".

06/21/2025

"Welcome to Our Page Native Americans❤️🪶Migwetch (thank you)A-da-do-li-gi (Blessing in CherokeeWelcome to our learning group in a friendly sacred place for all people to learn together.Our group is open to all Natives (full/mixed) and non Natives who respect the Native culture.
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It is a prayer of oneness and harmony with all forms of life: other people, animals, birds, insects, trees and plants, and even rocks, rivers, mountains and valleys.""
We may have be different in our colors, where we were born, ages, religions and many other ways but one in having in our heart and soul the Native ways and learning together about them.
There may be others that do believe differently for we come from so many places.
Let us respect all in their beliefs.
In our group here is to honor and teach the Native ways.
If there is any subject of Native, tribe or ways you would like to know please ask and we will research and learn together.
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