Native American Long Ago

01/28/2026

As many as 4,000 innocent Native Americans died on the evil Trail of Tears. Don’t you think the truth about the Trail of Tears should be taught in America’s schools?”
The Trail of Tears is one of the darkest chapters in American history. In the 1830s, under the Indian Removal Act signed by President Andrew Jackson, thousands of Native people—including the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole nations—were forced from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States.
Families were rounded up, homes were destroyed, and people were marched hundreds of miles to so-called “Indian Territory” west of the Mississippi River, in what is now Oklahoma. The journey was brutal—marked by hunger, disease, exhaustion, and exposure to the elements. Historical records estimate that as many as 4,000 Cherokee men, women, and children died during the forced relocation.
For Native communities, the Trail of Tears was not just a moment of suffering, but a devastating assault on their culture, identity, and way of life. Yet even in the face of tragedy, they endured. The descendants of those who walked the trail continue to carry forward their language, traditions, and resilience today.
The message in the image is powerful: the truth of the Trail of Tears must be remembered and taught in schools. Understanding this history is not about guilt—it is about honesty. It is about ensuring that future generations know the full story of America, including the voices of those who were silenced and the struggles of those who survived.

01/27/2026

Congratulations - Lily Gladstone for being the first Native Indigenous Blackfeet/Nimíipuu Female in its eighty one year history, to win the Best Actress at the Golden Globe Awards for her role in "Killers of the Flower Moon!"
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"The villains are fairly obvious in “Flower Moon,” but Scorsese asks audiences to take a wider look at systemic racism, historical injustice and the corruptive influence of power and money, intriguingly tying together our past and present." ~ Brian Truitt,
"Gladstone, in the rare Scorsese film that gives center stage to a female character, is the emotional core here, and it's her face that stays etched in our memory."
~ Jocelyn Noveck
“This is for every little Rez kid, every little urban kid, every little Native kid out there who has a dream and is seeing themselves represented in our stories told by ourselves, in our own words..." ~ Lily Gladstone
"We Are Still Here!"
Top : Mollie Kyle (Burkhart, Cobb) Osage, (1886-1937)
Bottom: Lily Gladstone, (Blackfeet-Nez Perce
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01/25/2026

01/23/2026

THE UNTOLD STORY OF NATIVE AMERICA
Long before skyscrapers and highways…
There were vast plains, sacred rivers, and endless skies.
And there were the Native Americans – people who lived not on the land, but with the land.
To them, the Earth was not property.
She was Mother.
The rivers were not resources.
They were life itself.
The sky was not just above them.
It was their eternal roof.
For thousands of years, they hunted with respect, prayed to the wind, danced to the heartbeat of the drums, and passed wisdom from elders to children. They were free.
But then came a storm…
Ships from across the ocean.
Guns and diseases.
Treaties broken again and again.
Whole nations were forced from their lands. The Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole were driven away in the 1830s – a march of sorrow carved into history as the “Trail of Tears.”
Families torn apart.
Thousands died along the way.
A people’s heartbeat nearly silenced.
And yet… they did not vanish.
Their drums still thunder.
Their stories still echo in the wind.
Their spirit refuses to bow.
Today, powwow dances rise like flames against the night sky. Songs in ancient tongues still call to the ancestors. Every feather, every chant, every prayer says one truth:
“We are still here.”
The history of Native America is not just about loss.
It is about resilience.
It is about survival.
It is about a people who endured unimaginable pain – and yet, still protect the fire of their culture.
Remember this: Freedom was never free.
It was paid in blood.
In tears.
In voices carried by the wind.
So when you walk upon this land… pause. Listen. You might just hear the whispers of the plains, reminding us all:
Protect the Earth.
Honor culture.
Never forget.

01/18/2026

Mother said 📢📣
If you are united, no fierce animal can attack or separate you from the group. And if you confuse yourselves, you will easily become non-existent. 🥰🥰

01/17/2026

These faces tell the truth that textbooks often avoid. America was not empty, waiting, or lost. It was alive with nations, governance, agriculture, trade, and ceremony. 🏞️🪶
Teaching this truth does not erase anyone else’s history—it completes it. Indigenous peoples did not vanish; they endured.
Real education begins when we stop repeating myths and start honoring reality. The land already knew its people. 🔥📚

01/16/2026

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🔥Native American History is such an important part of our History....
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01/16/2026

Yes it should be a part of America history for it was American history