Native American Journey

01/30/2026

We are big AHO

01/29/2026

Little Wolf and Dull Knife. Cheyenne. 1873. Photo by Alexander Gardner.

01/28/2026

Gouyen was born in 1857, into the Chihenne band of Chiricahua Apache. Her Indian name was[1] Góyą́ń meaning the one who is wise, or [2]Wise Woman. There is a story of Gouyen bravery, passed down in Apache history. Her husband was killed in a Comanche, raid while he was visiting the Mescalero Apaches. The revenge of Gouyen, is [3]legendary. Gouyen went looking for the Comanche chief, who had killed her husband. She found him dancing a in a victory dance around a bonfire, he had her husband's scalp hanging from his belt. Gouyen put on buckskin puberty ceremony dress, and joined the dancers, she seduced the chief, and led him away, she killed him. Then she scalped him, cut off his breechcloth and took off his moccasins. She then returned to her camp, to present her husbands parents with the Comanche leader's scalp, giving them his clothing and his footwear, to prove it was him. Gouyen had [4] avenged her husband's death.
In October 14, 1880, when [6]Victorio's band was evading U.S. and Mexican troops along the U.S. Mexican border. [7]The Chiricahua Apache, had stopped at Tres Castillos, New Mexico, for a rest, they were attacked by Mexicans. After the attack, Victorio and seventy eight Apaches had been murdered, among them Gouyen's baby daughter. Only Gouyen, her young son Kaywaykla, and seventeen others had escaped.
Gouyen did marry again to Kaytennae, who was an Apache warrior. Kaytennae was one of the Apaches that had escaped during the Battle of Tres Castillos. [8] Kaytennae and Gouyen joined [9] Nana and [10]Geronimo's band, and helped with their escape from the San Carlos Reservation in 1883. While on the run trying to evade capture, Gouyen saved Kaytennae's life by killing a man trying to ambush him. In 1886 Geronimo and his followers were taken prisoner by the U.S. Army and among them was Gouyen, and her family. They were taken to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Gouyen [11] died at Fort Sill in 1903.

01/28/2026

01/27/2026

C𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗗𝘂𝗰𝗸, 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗱𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗳𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲, 𝟭𝟵𝟮𝟱
Many Native American tribes lives on small pieces of land, but the Blackfoot tribe did not. They lived on a very stretched out area of North America, from Montana to the Saskatchewan valley, Canada. In the 18th century, the Blackfoot tribe moved on foot to the West, using their dogs to move their belongings.
The tribe was more progressive than others, having used fi****ms and horses dating back as early as 1750. This was how the tribe won battles over smaller, weaker groups.

01/27/2026

To sit in the sacred circle is reserved to only a very few, for in this circle you must have respect and honor for all life that sits with you. You must be humble and know that all your talents and gifts physical and spiritual is from the center that lives within you.
To sit in the sacred circle than you must always pray to give honor and deep thanks for this unconditional love that was blessed to us, that you should always be in harmony, and live in peace with all life as the center intended us to live. To sit in the sacred circle than you must know no one is above, no one below but the light shines equally on all who sits in the sacred circle from the divine center.
To sit in the sacred circle is to know you are not a separate consciousness but you are one with the sacred circle and the divine Center, that when your heart beats to the rythm with all life in the circle, than your heart beats as one to the sacred drum in the center.

01/23/2026

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