Native American History

06/08/2026

06/08/2026

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On September 30, we wear orange to remember Phyllis’ story and the 150,000 Indigenous children like her who were taken from their families, communities, and cultures.
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06/08/2026

A director told him to ""sound more Native."" He calmly asked, ""Which tribe?"" The room went silent. The role disappeared.

Just one year after his Oscar nomination, Graham Greene showed Hollywood he would not perform for its expectations.

In 1991, he stood at the Academy Awards as a Best Supporting Actor nominee for *Dances with Wolves*.

Many celebrated it as a breakthrough for Indigenous representation.

Greene saw something else.

His character, Kicking Bird, was thoughtful, respected, and intelligent.

But he still existed to guide the white hero's journey instead of having one fully his own.

The stereotype had simply been dressed in better clothes.

After the nomination, offers poured in.

Hollywood wanted him to play wise elders, spiritual guides, and forgiving chiefs.

Again and again, the characters existed to educate white audiences.

Too often, they also died.

When Greene questioned the dialogue or asked why another Native character had to be sacrificed, he was labeled difficult.

The calls slowly became fewer.

He refused to compromise.

That same year, he starred in *Clearcut*.

His character, Arthur, did not forgive, reconcile, or comfort anyone. He confronted violence with violence, forcing audiences to face painful truths.

Many viewers were unsettled.

Some theaters refused to show the film.

Greene accepted that.

For once, he was playing a Native character who lived on his own terms.

In 1992, he starred in *Thunderheart*, a film centered on real abuses at Pine Ridge Reservation.

Critics praised it.

The industry largely looked away.

His career never followed the path usually expected after an Oscar nomination.

Still, he kept working.

Across four decades, he built a career spanning more than 100 roles while refusing to surrender his dignity.

When asked about Hollywood's relationship with Native people, his answer was unforgettable.

"Hollywood loves Native people, as long as we don't want anything."

That truth echoed in the casting room.

When told to "sound more Native," Graham Greene asked one simple question.

"Which tribe?"

The room had no answer.

He lost the role—but walked away with something far more valuable: himself.

05/08/2026

Happy birthday my grandma!❤️🎉🎉 Need a blessing from you guys

05/08/2026

Why Isn’t This Map in the History Books?
Native Tribes of North America Mapped ✔
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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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