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Alina Aidan, New York, NY (2025)

07/07/2025

Miners pose with sacked high-grade gold ore at Round Mountain, Nevada ca. 1910.

06/30/2025

𝗨𝘁𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝗴 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗠𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗨𝘁𝗮𝗵, 𝟭𝟴𝟳𝟯
The Ute tribe is one of the oldest inhabitants in the Southwestern United States, spread out in Colorado and Utah, where they grew their crops and hunted. The Ute people began trading with the Spanish in the 17th century, as well as started to make use of horses to help the tribe spread out further.
When the Mormon communities began arriving in Utah, their lives began to be more complicated. The Ute was then forced out of Utah, an area that got its name from this very tribe. In 1874, the Ute tribe signed the Brunot Treaty, a paper that took away even more of their rights to lands without them knowing

06/16/2025

The Boot & Co. mercantile operated in the Lake City, Colorado area in the early 1880s. The sign advertises a meat market, storage, groceries, liquors, and ci**rs. This store served miners and prospectors in an extremely mountainous and isolated part of the state.

06/09/2025

A photograph of Native Americans taken in 1908 by Edward Curtis would be a striking and historically significant image, capturing a moment in time that reflects both the resilience and challenges faced by Native American communities in the early twentieth century. Edward Curtis, a renowned American photographer and ethnologist, dedicated much of his career to documenting the lives, cultures, and traditions of Native American tribes. Her work, often referred to as the series "North American India," aimed to preserve the ways of life of these indigenous peoples, many of whom faced displacement, assimilation pressures and the loss of their traditional ways of life.
In this particular photo from 1908, Native Americans would probably be shown in traditional attire, which could include intricate beading, feather-stuffed items, and other symbolic items of their culture and identity. The image would capture them in a moment of dignity and strength, perhaps during a ceremonial event, in their everyday life, or as they posed for Curtis' lens. Despite the constant forces of colonization and forced assimilation, the subjects would exude a sense of pride and cultural continuity, conveying the deep connection to their heritage they carried with them.
Curtis' photographs, while beautiful and insightful, have also been criticized for presenting an idealized version of Native American life, sometimes overlooking the complex realities and struggles facing these communities during this period. However, his work remains invaluable as a record of Native American cultures, many of which were disappearing before systemic policies designed to erase them. This particular image, from 1908, is a reminder of the enduring strength of Native American identity, the importance of cultural preservation, and the power of photography in capturing history.

05/29/2025

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.
𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 : 𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆-𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝟴𝟲

05/20/2025

Whoe-A-Ke (Man Who Packs The Eagle). 1877. Dakota. Photo by William Henry Jackson.

05/19/2025

Itázipčho Lakota Chief Spotted Eagle. 1880. Montana. Photo by L.A. Hufman. Source - Montana Historical Society.

05/15/2025

Facing Exile, Battling Death, Protecting the Future: The Incredible Strength of Chiricahua Apache Women.

On the difficult road of captivity and forced removal from Fort Bowie, they were changing women. They were the mothers, wives, daughters, widows, warriors, lovers, and friends of the Chiricahua men who had fought fiercely.

Now, some faced exile alongside their beloved men, but many had only each other and their children for comfort. Heartbreakingly, for some, even their children were taken away. 💔

Battling nearly overwhelming obstacles and a relentless tide of deadly diseases in captivity, these women fought for survival. With unwavering spirit, they managed to care for themselves and protect their children against impossible odds.

These were the very real women of legend and lore – the grandmothers and great-grandmothers whose resilience ensured the survival and continuation of the Chiricahua Apache people.

Their strength, their pain, their fight, and their legacy must be remembered.

Honor these incredible women! Share their powerful story of resilience and stand in solidarity with the Chiricahua Apache people today. 🙏🏽❤️

05/14/2025

Shun-ga-thka (aka Shun-gas-ke, aka White Horse, aka Richard White Horse), the son of Ah-hah-che-ke-saw-ke or Missouri Chief, and the husband of Wa-na-gra-che-me or Sarah White Horse - Otoe - 1884

05/13/2025

Comanche mother & child. Lawton, Oklahoma. ca. 1920. Photo by Bates. Source - Southern Methodist University.[❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🧜‍♀️]

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05/08/2025

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐍𝐨𝐬𝐞 🌻🌻Pretty Nose :A Fierce and Uncompromising Woman War Chief You Should Know
Pretty Nose (c. 1851 – after 1952) was an Arapaho woman, and according to her grandson, was a war chief who participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.In some sources, Pretty Nose is called Cheyenne, although she was identified as Arapaho on the basis of her red, black and white beaded cuffs. The two tribes were allies at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and are still officially grouped together as the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.
According to a 1878 Laton Alton Huffman photograph which shows the two girls together, Pretty Nose had a sister named Spotted Fawn who was 13 in 1878 making Spotted Fawn about 14 years younger than Pretty Nose.
Pretty Nose's grandson, Mark Soldier Wolf, became an Arapaho tribal elder who served in the US Marine Corps during the Korean War. She witnessed his return to the Wind River Indian Reservation in 1952, at the age of 101

05/06/2025

A Shoshone Indian born circa 1788, Sacagawea was kidnapped by the Hidatsa when she was around 12 years old. Eventually, she and another captive were acquired by and married to Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian trader.

When Charbonneau was hired as a translator for the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark also wanted to take advantage of Sacagawea’s linguistic knowledge (she could speak both Shoshone and Hidatsa). Sacagawea set out with the expedition on April 7, 1805, only two months after giving birth. She took her son, Jean Baptiste, on the journey, where the presence of mother and child was an indisputable asset — as war parties didn’t take along women and children, the group wasn’t seen as a threat by the tribes they encountered.

Sacagawea assisted the expedition in other ways: When a panicked Charbonneau almost capsized a boat, she saved navigational tools, supplies and important papers. She was able to locate edible and medicinal roots, plants and berries. The landmarks she remembered also proved useful in their travels.

When the group returned to the Hidatsa-Mandan villages in 1806, Sacagawea didn’t receive any pay (her husband got $500, as well as 320 acres of land). Clark acknowledged the unfairness of this in an 1806 letter to Charbonneau: “[Y]our woman who accompanied you that long dangerous and fatigueing rout to the Pacific Ocian and back diserved a greater reward for her attention and services on that rout than we had in our power to give her....”

Sacagawea died in 1812, soon after giving birth to a daughter, Lisette. Indicating how much he’d appreciated her, it was Clark who took responsibility for Sacagawea's children

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