Chief Bone Necklace an Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 1899.
Navajo mother tying her daughter’s hair using brush, 1920. University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center
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Blood quantum talk.
onscreen comment: She said she’s one sixth Hawaiian lmao. She’s a white lady trying to convince everyone she’s Hawaiian.
audio transcript: “Friendly not-so-friendly daily reminder that Native people are not dogs and we don’t owe you anything, and blood quantum is a social construct created by the US government in the 1800’s to limit the citizenship of Native American tribes, because we are the only ethnicity who needs to have a card to prove our blood quantum to the rest of the world. Blood quantum was literally created so once we don’t all meet that 25 or 50% blood quantum required to enroll in a specific tribe, then the US can say there are officially no Native people left.”
Out of respect I generally choose not to post portraits of indigenous Americans but I am sadly struck by how much was lost by the destruction of these people
Ralph Willet Dixey (Bannock tribe ), Peter Jim (Shoshone tribe ) – 1897
Something I think most have never seen , a albino Native American girl from the Hopi tribe , 1886 . by RedNasty00
“Sits Down Spotted.“ Crow. Fort Keogh, Montana, 188