Eagles In Flight

06/11/2026

05/17/2026

"LARRY SELLERS ,1949-2021-OSAGE..Did you know that actor Larry Sellers was from Osage County? Born in Pawhuska in 1949, Sellers portrayed Native characters in several movies and television shows during his decades-long career, including Wayne's World 2, The Sopranos, and more than 70 episodes of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (he received an Emmy nomination for the latter).
After years of providing respectful portrayals of Native American characters both on TV and in films, Sellers passed away in late 2021 at the age of 72.
He also served as an Osage language instructor at the Osage Nation Language Department, helping to keep the legacy of Osage culture alive for future generations.
Explore some of this rich heritage for yourself at the Osage Nation Museum in Pawhuska.".

05/14/2026

In 1944, Peter MacDonald was just a young Navajo radio operator.
He wasn’t carrying a weapon.
His power was in the words he spoke.
Words that no enemy could ever decode.
He served in Guam and China with the 6th Marine Division.
His mission: send vital battlefield messages in a secret code.
A code based entirely on the Navajo language — fast, complex, and unwritten.
The Japanese broke every code.
Except this one — invented by Native American soldiers.
They failed. Every single time.
Not one message sent in Navajo code was ever cracked.
And Navajo wasn’t the only language used.
Mohawk, Choctaw, Seminole, Pawnee, Iroquois —
A dozen Native dialects helped secure Allied victory in WWII.
Each one became a weapon.
Each speaker, a living encryption system.
Now almost 100 years old, Peter MacDonald is one of the last surviving Code Talkers.

05/13/2026

A'HO✊✊

05/10/2026

When the breakfast burrito lady has a crush on you.

05/08/2026

Billy Walkabout (March 31, 1949 – March 7, 2007) is thought to be the most decorated Native American soldier of the Vietnam War. He received the Distinguished Service Cross, five Silver Stars (one upgraded to a Distinguished Service Cross), ten Bronze Star Medal, five with Valor device, one Army Commendation Medals (including one valor device and two oak leaf clusters), and six Purple Hearts.

Walkabout served as an Army Ranger in Vietnam, in the Company F, 58th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division. Walkabout (then Specialist Four) distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous actions on 20 November 1968 during a long range reconnaissance patrol southwest of Hue.

After successfully ambushing an enemy squad on a jungle trail, the friendly patrol radioed for immediate helicopter extraction. When the extraction helicopters arrived and the lead man began moving toward the pick-up zone, he was seriously wounded by hostile automatic weapons fire. Sergeant Walkabout quickly rose to his feet and delivered steady suppressive fire on the attackers while other team members pulled the wounded man back to their ranks. Sergeant Walkabout then administered first aid to the soldier in preparation for medical evacuation. As the man was being loaded onto the evacuation helicopter, enemy elements again attacked the team.

Maneuvering under heavy fire, Sergeant Walkabout positioned himself where the enemy were concentrating their assault and placed continuous rifle fire on the adversary. A command-detonated mine ripped through the friendly team, instantly killing three men and wounding all the others. Although stunned and wounded by the blast, Sergeant Walkabout rushed from man to man administering first aid, bandaging one soldier’s severe chest wound and reviving another soldier by heart massage. He then coordinated gunship and tactical air strikes on the enemy’s positions. When evacuation helicopters arrived again, he worked single-handedly under fire to board his disabled comrades. Only when the casualties had been evacuated and friendly reinforcements had arrived, did he allow himself to be extracted. He retired as a second lieutenant.

He suffered from complications arising from exposure to the Agent Orange defoliant used in Vietnam. He was waiting for a kidney transplant and took dialysis three times a week. He died of pneumonia and renal failure in a hospital in Norwich, Connecticut, survived by his wife and several children from earlier marriages.

He was honored in a portrait, Walkabout: A Warrior’s Spirit, by Cherokee artist Talmadge Davis.

05/06/2026

History shifted along the Klamath River when the Yurok Tribe reclaimed more than 47,000 acres of ancestral land, the largest land-back agreement ever completed in California.
This land was never lost by accident.
During the Gold Rush and the decades that followed, the Yurok people were violently displaced from nearly 90 percent of their territory. Forests were logged. Rivers were dammed. Sacred places were fenced off. What remained was fragmentation, both ecological and cultural.
The land returned in May 2025 includes towering old-growth forests, cold-water tributaries, and culturally sacred sites that have sustained Yurok life since time immemorial. These forests and streams are not just symbolic. They are vital habitat for salmon, steelhead, and endangered wildlife, species that depend on clean, cold water and intact ecosystems.
For the Yurok Tribe, land-back is not about ownership in the colonial sense. It is about responsibility.
Yurok stewardship emphasizes balance, seasonal knowledge, and long-term care. Cultural burning, forest restoration, and river protection are not new ideas here, they are ancient ones, practiced continuously long before the state of California existed. Returning land to Indigenous care restores more than borders. It restores relationships.
Environmental scientists increasingly recognize what Indigenous communities have always known, ecosystems thrive when managed with patience rather than extraction. Along the Klamath, that knowledge is already being put to work, reconnecting forests to rivers and rivers to life.
This return does not erase the past.
But it changes the future.
Land-back is justice.
Land-back is restoration.
Land-back is listening.
Follow Know Your Planet for real moments where history bends toward repair, guided by those who have always known how to care for the land

03/05/2026

These four Chiefs were Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Geronimo and Red Cloud. Each of these forefathers played an important role in shaping their tribe''s customs and history. Because of their influence over the shaping of Native American history, they are often referred to as the real founding fathers.!
Left-Right : Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud