Indigenous Civilization

This beautiful sculpture was built by the Irish people in their own country to honor the American Choctaw Indian tribe. They were grateful because in 1847 the Choctaw people sent money to Ireland when they learned that Irish people were starving due to the potato famine. The Choctaw themselves were living in hardship and poverty, having recently endured the Trail of Tears.
And that is a lesson in how to be a person in this world.
Kindred Spirits is a large stainless steel outdoor sculpture in Bailick Park in Midleton, County Cork, Ireland. The shape of the feathers is intended to represent a bowl of food

"Sioux Chief Long Wolf & Family", ca. 1880.
~ “A Stranger Hears Last Wish of a Sioux Chief
Long Wolf went to London with Buffalo Bill's show and died there in 1892. Thanks to the struggles of a British homemaker, his remains will be returned home.”
May 28, 1997 |WILLIAM D. MONTALBANO
TIMES STAFF WRITER
BROMSGROVE, England — “After a restless century in a melancholy English graveyard, the remains--and the spirit--of a Sioux chief named Long Wolf are returning to his ancestral home in America because one stranger cared.
The stranger is a 56-year-old English homemaker named Elizabeth Knight, who lives in a small row house with her husband, Peter, a roof repairer in this Worcestershire village near Birmingham.
"I am a very ordinary sort of person," she said.
The sort who writes letters, not e-mail, who makes no long-distance phone calls, has no fancy degrees, has little worldly experience, who never gets her name in the papers. The sort who turns detective and historian and raises a transatlantic fuss because her heart is moved and her sense of fair play is outraged.
This is the story of how heirs of Middle England and the Wild West have joined forces to fulfill a dying wish made more than a century ago.
For Knight, the story began the day in 1991 that she bought an old book in a market near her house. There was a 1923 story by a Scottish adventurer named R. B. Cunninghame Graham that began this way: "In a lone corner of a crowded London cemetery, just at the end of a smoke-stained Greco-Roman colonnade under a poplar tree, nestles a neglected grave."
In the grave, under a stylized cross and the howling image of his namesake, lies Long Wolf. He died at 59 in a London hospital on June 11, 1892, the victim of bronchial pneumonia contracted in what was then a crowded, dark, gloomy, industrial city as far as anywhere on Earth from the Great Plains of North America.
"I was moved. I kept taking the book down, imagining Long Wolf lying there amid the ranks of pale faces

This image carries the voice of generations.
The pain. The strength. The warning.

A people without a voice lose their future.
A people who stand together reclaim it.

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In the early morning on Dec. 15, 1890, Sitting Bull (or Tatanka-Iyotanka), the Hunkpapa Lakota chieftain and medicine man, was killed by Indian Police during an arrest attempt at his home near the Grand River on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. During the arrest, a scuffle ensued and Sitting Bull was shot and killed, along with several others involved.

The order for Sitting Bull's arrest came from U.S. Indian Agent James McLaughlin, who feared the chief's influence and the growing Ghost Dance movement. The Ghost Dance brought hope to many Lakotas after the extensive loss of their territory and way of life. Sitting Bull refused to denounce the movement among his followers and aid the U.S. government in its suppression efforts.

Sitting Bull was buried on Dec. 17, 1890, in the post cemetery at Fort Yates. In 1953, his remains were reinterred at a site near Mobridge, SD, where a monument stands today. In his book "Sitting Bull, Prisoner of War," Dennis C. Pope wrote, "Sitting Bull remained faithful to his heritage until the end of his life. Despite starvation, imprisonment, and the loss of his land, the chief continued to exemplify the virtues of generosity and courage and to fight for what he thought was best for his people."

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