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10/05/2025

Augustus “Gus” McCrae was the kind of Ranger Captain men followed not just out of duty, but out of sheer admiration. He carried himself with a swagger that could light up a campfire, laughing in the face of danger as if bullets were nothing more than buzzing flies. Yet beneath that easy charm was a steel-hard resolve — when Gus rode into trouble, the outlaws of Texas knew the day had turned against them.
His legend was built on more than a quick draw. Gus had the wit to outsmart horse thieves and the grit to stand toe-to-toe with Comanche raiding parties. He could drink with cowhands one night, then track desperadoes across the desert by dawn, never losing his good humor or his edge. More than once, men swore his laughter could be heard even in the middle of a firefight — steadying his Rangers as much as his revolver ever did.
Stories spread across the frontier like wildfire. How he rode through a storm of lead to pull a wounded Ranger from an ambush. How he bluffed a gang into surrendering by convincing them he had fifty men hidden in the brush, when in truth he had only three. Gus McCrae wasn’t just a captain — he was the kind of man who made the Rangers a legend themselves. And though time turned him into a half-mythical figure, those who once rode beside him never forgot the truth: courage could wear a smile, and justice sometimes came with a joke on its lips

09/27/2025

Indian Country mourns a true warrior. 💔

Ernie Stevens Jr. (Oneida Nation), longtime Chairman of the Indian Gaming Association, has walked on at 66 years old.

His passing was confirmed Friday evening in a post shared by his family on Facebook, asking for privacy as they navigate this profound loss.

For over two decades, Ernie stood at the frontlines of tribal sovereignty — defending the rights of Indigenous nations, building economic power through Indian gaming, and creating pathways for future generations to thrive.

He was a fighter in every sense: from his early days as a boxer to his lifelong role as a protector of our people’s strength and self-determination. His leadership transformed Indian Country — reminding us that sovereignty remains the foundation of our future generations. 🪶

09/17/2025

The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills, in Custer County, South Dakota, United States. It will depict the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, riding a horse and pointing to his tribal land. The memorial was commissioned by Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota elder, to be sculpted by Korczak Ziolkowski. It is operated by the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit organization.…

09/17/2025

Thought for todayBob Marley was once asked if there was a perfect woman. He replies :Who cares about perfection?
Even the moon is not perfect, it is full of craters.
The sea is incredibly beautiful, but salty and dark in the depths.
The sky is always infinite, but often cloudy.
So, everything that is beautiful isn't perfect, it's special.
Therefore, every woman can be special to someone.
Stop being "perfect", but try to be free and live, doing what you love, not wanting to impress others!

09/16/2025

Welcome to one of the wealthiest locations in the world, Oglala Lakota Territory. Perhaps you have heard the opposite. It is often reported that places like the Pine Ridge Reservation and Rosebud Reservation are the poorest counties in the United States.
While this statistic might be accurate through the lens of capitalism, it is far from the truth. As Lakota people, we don't define our wealth by how much we store up but by how much we give away.
Our culture, lifeways, kinships, and connection to Uŋčí Makȟá can not be measured in dollars and cents. The life of a Lakota is a hard life but a good life!

09/16/2025

09/15/2025

Quanah Parker was the last Chief of the Commanches and never lost a battle to the white man. His tribe roamed over the area where Pampas stands. He was never captured by the Army, but decided to surrender and lead his tribe into the white man's culture, only when he saw that there was no alternative.
His was the last tribe in the Staked Plains to come into the reservation system.
Quanah, meaning "fragrant," was born about 1850, son of Comanche Chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, a white girl taken captive during the 1836 raid on Parker's Fort, Texas. Cynthia Ann Parker was recaptured, along with her daughter, during an 1860 raid on the Pease River in northwest Texas. She had spent 24 years among the Comanche, however, and thus never readjusted to living with the whites again.
She died in Anderson County, Texas, in 1864 shortly after the death of her daughter, Prairie Flower. Ironically, Cynthia Ann's son would adjust remarkably well to living among the white men. But first he would lead a bloody war against them.

09/15/2025

The Fall of the Bison
Long ago, millions of bison ran free across the Great Plains of North America. For Indigenous people, the bison were more than food — they were life, spirit, and tradition.
But in the late 1800s, everything changed. The bison were hunted almost to extinction — not just for money, but to break the spirit of Native communities. The plan was simple and cruel: take away the bison, and the people would suffer.
From over 30 million bison, only a few hundred were left. The land grew quiet — a painful silence, hiding a tragic history.
Even today, that silence can still be felt. But there is hope. Indigenous communities are bringing the bison back. And with them, their strength, culture, and spirit are rising again.

09/15/2025

I don't know why this hasn't received more publicity, but this fifty-foot sculpture was unveiled recently in South Dakota.It's called 'Dignity' and was done by artist Dale Lamphere to honor the women of the Sioux Nation.

09/14/2025

Philip Return From Scout. Lakota. ca. 1880-1900. Photo by Geoffrey Duncan. Source - Denver Public Library.

09/13/2025

John Hollow Horn Bear, a Sioux man. 1898. Photo by Frank A. Rinehar

09/10/2025

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The ancestors of living Native Americans arrived in North America about 15 thousand years ago.
As a result, a wide diversity of communities, societies, and cultures finally developed on the continent over the millennia. The population figure for Indigenous peoples in the Americas before the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus was 70 million or more.
About 562 tribes inhabited the contiguous U.S. territory. Ten largest North American Indian tribes: Arikara, Cherokee, Iroquois, Pawnee, Sioux, Apache, Eskimo, Comanche, Choctaw, Cree, Ojibwa, Mohawk, Cheyenne, Navajo, Seminole, Hope, Shoshone, Mohican, Shawnee, Mi’kmaq, Paiute, Wampanoag, Ho-Chunk, Chumash, Haida. Below is the tribal map of Pre-European North America.
The old map below gives a Native American perspective by placing the tribes in full flower ~ the “Glory Days.” It is pre-contact from across the eastern sea or, at least, before that contact seriously affected change. Stretching over 400 years, the time of contact was quite different from tribe to tribe.
For instance, the “Glory Days” of the Maya and Aztec came to an end very long before the interior tribes of other areas, with some still resisting almost until the 20th Century. At one time, numbering in the millions, the native peoples spoke close to 4,000 languages. The Americas’ European conquest, which began in 1492, ended in a sharp drop in the Native American population through epidemics, hostilities, ethnic cleansing, and slavery.
When the United States was founded, established Native American tribes were viewed as semi-independent nations, as they commonly lived in communities separate from white immigrants.
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