‘Bigger than the Oscars’: Blackfeet Nation honors Lily Gladstone with stand-up headdress
BROWNING — Wearing a white sequin shawl and matching ribbon skirt, esteemed actress Lily Gladstone kneeled on the floor of the new arbor on the Blackfeet Reservation as tribal elders placed a stand-up headdress atop her head.
Thousands of people who traveled across the country — and from Canada — to honor Gladstone watched in silence.
Gladstone stood and embraced tribal leaders. Then, with one hand over her heart and the other holding onto Charlene Plume, the elder who made her headdress, Gladstone danced in a circle around the arbor. Members of the Women’s Stand-Up Headdress Society, tribal leaders, dignitaries, students, teachers and children followed behind.
The sound of drums boomed, and the crowd erupted.
Gladstone, who grew up in Browning and East Glacier, recently rose to worldwide fame after starring in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” alongside Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio.
She made history, becoming the first Indigenous person to win a Golden Globe award for best actress and the first to be nominated for best actress at the Oscars.
At Tuesday’s event — which included a grand entry, flag song, prayer, speeches from dignitaries, honor song and round dance — leaders thanked Gladstone for representing the Blackfeet Nation on the world stage and for being a role model for young people.
“Because of you, rez kids on every reservation here and in Canada can chase their dreams,” Councilman Everett Armstrong said at the event. “Students, take a look at this accomplishment — it’s possible.”
Councilman Robert DesRosier delighted in the fact that Gladstone “is just like us.”
“She’s us,” he told the crowd before turning to Gladstone. “Lily, welcome home.”
More than 50 members of the Women’s Stand-Up Headdress Society — a group of contemporary Blackfoot women in the U.S. and Canada who own such headdresses — traveled to Browning to celebrate Gladstone. Theda New Breast, a member of the society, said Tuesday marked the largest gathering of stand-up headdress members to date. (BEN ALLAN SMITH, Missoulian)
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Photograph of Three Marine Corps Women Reservists, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
Record Group 208: Records of the Office of War Information Series: Feature Story Photographs
Original caption: American Indian women too have joined the fighting forces against Germany and Japan. These three are members of the U.S. Marine Corps. They are [left to right] Minnie Spotted Wolf of the Blackfeet, Celia Mix, Potawatomi, and Violet Eastman, Chippewa.
Black and white photograph of three women in World War II era uniforms of the Marine Corps Reserves. They are posing for the camera by a wooden fence.
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Video of some absolutely beautiful buffalo at the link.
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Crow Chief Plenty Coups. Early 1900s. Richard Throssel Collection, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
Blackfeet warriors ready for Sundance. ca. 1906. Montana. Photo by N.A. Forsyth. Source - Montana Historical Society.
The Kiowa elder Elk Tongue and his daughter A-Ke-a - 1891 - Library of Congress
Chief Little Wound and family. Oglala Lakota. 1899. Photo by Heyn Photo.
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Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan) People
c.1850
National Museum of the American Indian (Catalog Number: 10/8454)
Learn more about the Pikuni Blackfeet at their website: https://blackfeetnation.com/
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Ready for St. Patrick’s Day 💚🍀
Cash app: $chocolatelygoodness
Requests are welcomed 😘
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Day 18: Shape
These two plain natives, Edge and Block are the main rivals with Triangular and Square, while a Navajo girl with a red circle, Emily is a Navajo girl with a soft personality.
By the way, this is the last time of using limited colors for this week before getting back to regular art for regular week of the indigenovember month.
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