And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, January 23, 2023
Monsheeda (Dust Maker), and his wife Mehunga (Standing Buffalo), of the Ponca tribe, posed together in their wedding photo, circa 1900
He looks like the "contrary" in "Little Big Man".
ReplyDeleteYata Hay
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ReplyDeleteAnd thanks to the white man they had cloth to wear instead of animal skins. And white mans photo of the event.
ReplyDeleteJust how many buffalo were left by 1900? It was cloth or go naked.
DeleteIt;s a popular myth that white man wiped out the buffalo. It was in fact a disease that killed most of them off.
DeleteUnusual to see native Americans smiling in photos from that era. Nice, happy event and photo.
ReplyDeleteIt's unusual for anyone to smile in those old photos, but this is the first time I recall seeing an "injun" smile in one.
DeleteTonight he hunt the great smelly beaver. Good luck to your travels through the bush!!!
ReplyDeleteA handsome couple.
ReplyDeleteTeenagers.
ReplyDeleteIs Monsheeda missing part of his finger?
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