Native American Pride

theloveofafeather:

Swift Runner was a Plains Cree Indian trapper who lived during the last century in what is now central Alberta. His background was not unusual. As a young man he received a solid useful Cree education; he married and had a family of six children; he traded with the Hudson’s Bay Company; and, in 1875, he served as a guide for the North West Mounted Police.

But Swift Runner’s life ended in tragedy and notoriety. During the winter of 1878, a time of starvation and misery for the Cree people, his eldest son died. Believed he became possessed by the Windigo, he murdered his wife and family and cooked and ate their flesh. Eventually he was arrested, brought to trial, and in December, 1879, hanged at Fort Saskatchewan.

jaguarsvisionboard:

Mi’kmaq Warrior and Dancer ~ Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada.

yarelii-iileray:

Shute Park, Hillsboro Oregon

nitanahkohe:

Native Sun, Susan Point (Coast Salish)

gunsandposes:

Crow Drog, Nebraska, circa 1898. Photo by John Anderson. Courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society.

everydaynative:

Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.

She was born on the Omaha reservation in northeastern Nebraska. At a young age, Susan witnessed an American Indian woman die because a white physician denied her his help. She credited this event as her inspiration to become a doctor. 

In 1894, she married Henry Picotte, and together, they moved to Bancroft, Nebraska. And there, Susan set up a private practice and gave both white and non-white patients her service. 

Years later, she led a delegation to Washington, D.C., to lobby for the prohibition of alcohol on the reservation in 1906.

In 1913, she opened a hospital in the town of Walthill, Nebraska, which honors her memory by holding a museum dedicated to her work and sharing the history of the Omaha and Winnebago tribes.

mistermajik2000:

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest  fan art