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American Horse - Oglala 1880 ~ One of the wittiest and shrewdest of the Sioux chiefs was American Horse, who succeeded to the name and position of an uncle, killed in the battle of Slim Buttes in 1876.
Gillies Macbean, Scottish hero who fell at the Battle of Culloden (1746)
The Truth About Hair and why Indians would keep their hair long---what do you think?
Buffalo Bill Cody, born William Frederick Cody, was famous for performing in the Wild West shows popular in the 1870s. He toured Europe many times with his “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West” show and performed for Pope Leo XIII and Queen Victoria.
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 – 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), & Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, & underwater travel before air travel & practical submarines were invented, & before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the 2nd most translated author in the world after Agatha Christie.
Uqualla: Spiritual leader, medicine man of the Havasupai Nation in the Grand Canyon.
Albumen print by John K. Hillers of Little Bear, Cheyenne. c. 1875.
Wife of Chief Sinte Gleska aka "Spotted Tail" // Sioux Sicangu Lakota // 1872
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Elizabeth Zimmerman. Ok, Mrs. Zimmerman. I'll trust you and try it.
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Marie Curie ~(1867-1934) discovered that radiation came from the individual atom and not a group of molecules. She received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for discovering radium. She was the first woman to win a Nobel prize and the first person to win two Nobel prizes (one, with husband, Pierre, in Physics in 1903). She died in 1934 from leukemia having been exposed excessively to radiation before it was a known danger.
Big Tobacco, a Dance Hall Chief, circa 1900. The U.S. Government allowed Native Americans to build halls to host tribal dances. When tribal members wanted to hold a dance, the Dance Hall Chief would seek permission from Federal agents. Dance Hall Chiefs would beat on a drum to communicate to tribal members the time of the dance. The city of Yankton, S.D., featured seven dance halls from the 1890s to 1934. Dance Halls served to preserve Native American cultural traditions. Notice the President...
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Crow Tribe - Long Horse, Blackfoot, White Calf - about 1863
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Village criers on horseback, Bird On the Ground and Forked Iron, Crow Indians, Montana
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The first photographic portrait image of a human ever produced, 1839
Studio portrait of a child from the Ponca Tribe in traditional dress holding a tomahawk
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Medicine Man My body is tired from the long hunt. My mind races with thoughts of the buffalo. The day is over so why doesn’t the pain go away? I kneel down to intake the mystical herbs. My body’s pain eases, and my mind goes to rest.
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