Jim Wolf

I NEED.....✊✊
These are the people who discovered America
And should be taught in our history books
Not the false storyline they gave about Columbus discovery American.

🎬 After winning the U.S. Directing Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, "Sugarcane" co-directors Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie are hitting the road with the Rez Tour!
Their goal? To bring the film back to the Native communities it represents. "We thought it was important to get the film to the community for whom the story really belongs," Kassie shared. This tour offers Native communities a chance to showcase the film in a way that resonates with them.

Oklahoma school officials tried to rip a Native American student's sacred feather off her cap at graduation
A Broken Arrow High School senior said the district denied her the chance to represent her Native heritage before walking the stage.
Lena' Black was excited to receive her diploma, with her tassel hanging in her face and an eagle plume dangling beside it.
"Wearing it just meant so much," she said. "And it would have symbolized so much if I was able to wear it, along with wearing a ribbon skirt that I had made specifically for graduation."
Right before graduates headed to the field, Black said a staff member told her the symbolic plume wasn't allowed.
"I just remember, like, she grabbed at me and I, she was like, 'You can't wear it,'" recounted Black."It was just so almost, like, humiliating, having to be put in this situation in front of, like, so many students."
Broken Arrow's graduation dress code says students can't have decorations with their regalia.
As the Red Creek Gourd Clan Princess, Black - who is Otoe-Missouria and Osage - said the feather is celebrating her Native culture, not decor.
Black said she asked a teacher before graduation if she could wear the plume, and said the teacher told her it should be okay since it's cultural.
"Not another single person deserves to go through being totally just disregarded for anything that you care for," said Black. "Because the feather represents something that I am."
Earlier this year, State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister wrote a letter encouraging districts to allow tribal regalia at graduation.
"Our American Indian students value a number of items that pay homage to their cultural heritage," Hofmeister wrote.
"It isn't ever just beads," explained Black. "It isn't ever just a feather. It is never just clothing. It isn't ever just hair. These are a part of us."

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters!
Picture is showing a Sakha Man
with his baby, Siberia
The Sakhas (Yakuts) are a nomadic Turkic people indigenous to Sakha (Yakutia) in Northeast Siberia.
- In the 17th century Russia began to move into their territory and annexed it, imposed a fur tax, and managed to suppress several Sakha rebellions between 1634 and 1642.
Russian brutality in collection of the pelt tax (yasak) sparked a rebellion among the Sakha (Yakuts) and also Tungusic-speaking tribes.Russian forces, responded with a reign of terror: native settlements were torched and thousands of people were tortured and killed. The Sakha population alone is estimated to have fallen as a result by 70 percent in the 17th century. The discovery of gold and, later, the building of the Trans-Siberian Railway, brought ever-increasing numbers of Russians into the region. By the 1820s almost all the Sakhas had been forcefully converted to the Russian Orthodox church although they retained, and still retain, lots of shamanic practices...🙏

Hau Mitakuyepi & Hihanni Was'te Oyate...... Hello my Relatives & Good Morning everyone. 3 days of rain it's not raining hard but still nice the grass can use it. Anpetu Was'te Yuha Yo Oyate...... Have a nice day everyone ❤️🙏❤️

A LAUGH FOR TODAY❤
When NASA was preparing for the Apollo moon landings of the late 60s and early 70s, they did some astronaut training along a Navajo Indian reservation in the SW. One day, a Navajo elder and his grandson were herding animals and came across the space crew. The old man, who only spoke Navajo, asked a question, which the grandson translated: "What are the guys in the big suits doing?" A member of the crew said they were practicing for their trip to the moon." Then, recognizing a promotional opportunity for the spin-doctors, added, "We will be leaving behind a special record with greetings in many languages and such. Would the old man be interested in giving us a greeting to include?"
Upon translation, the old man got really excited and was thrilled at the idea of sending a message to the moon with the astronauts. The NASA folks produced a tape recorder and the old man recorded his message at which the grandson fought back the urge to laugh... but he refused to translate.
After Apollo 11 had successfully landed on the moon and brought its astronauts homes, a new group were training in the desert when one of the NASA officials recognized the Navajo elder and his grandson and went to tell them that the old man's message was indeed on the moon which was met with laughter.
Finally, the NASA rep caught on that not everything was as simple as he had originally thought and asked for a translation. With a chuckle the youngster replied: "Beware of white man; they come to steal your land!"