#native american women

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Indigenous Beauties 😍

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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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Te Ata by Allison Adams

Te Ata (aka Mary Frances Thompson) (1895 –1995), was an actress and citizen of the Chickasaw Nation known for telling Native American stories. She performed as a representative of Native Americans at state dinners before President Roosevelt as well as for King and Queen of England. She went on to perform throughout Europe. She was named Oklahoma's first State Treasure in 1987. Her career spanned over 60 years and she collected hundreds of stories from different tribes.

[humanrightsconnected]

It’s Native American Heritage Month! As we commemorate the cultures, traditions, histories, contributions, and achievements of the Native American communities, discover from the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women (CSVANW), the Indian Law Resource Center, Indigenous Women Rising, the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center (NAWHERC), and the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) on how you can play a role in advancing the rights of Native American women! 

📷 by Boston Public Library on Unsplash

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Ella Cara Deloria

Ella Cara Deloria was born in 1889 on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. For 15 years, Deloria collaborated with Franz Boas, the "Father of American Anthropology", to translate indigenous languages in 19th-century texts and research the linguistics of native languages. She recorded numerous Lakota myths and sacred stories, and interviewed Sioux elders and tribal historians. Deloria also wrote a novel, Waterlily, which told the story of three generations of Lakota women before the reservation era. The novel was published posthumously in 1988.

Ella Cara Deloria died in 1971 at the age of 82.

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I always thought that it was odd how disney still promotes pocahontas

Disney has a history of censoring or straight up ignoring their old problematic media but pocahontas? A true story about a girl who went through horrifying events that they romanticised and profit of it is still considered one of their memorable movies, she's still one of the official disney princesses despite the fact that how disrespectful the movie was towards matoaka

[ghostisventing]

Indigenous women who are csa/child abuse survivors or have bpd:

What would you say to writers who are writing an indigenous character with bpd and trauma?

(For context, the character develops bpd from trauma. This is part of the backstory. Not the entire story).

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Shawna Olson and her 19-month-old daughter Ariya of the Brokenhead Ojibway Nation of Manitoba, Canada, stand in their jingle dresses at the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Grand Celebration Powwow in Hinckley, MN. "Ever since I've been walking, that's how long I've been dancing," Olson said.

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"Madre Lenca" (Lenca Mother) from Delia Flores