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turbinetree

(24,710 posts)
Sat Aug 4, 2018, 01:05 PM Aug 2018

Riding with Native Americans - in pictures

To mark the 150th anniversary of the Fort Laramie peace treaty between the Sioux nation and US government, the Lakota people rode 400 miles from Green Grass in South Dakota, home to their spiritual leader, Arvol Lookinghorse, to Fort Laramie in Wyoming, where the treaty was signed

Stephanie Keith/Reuters

Fri 3 Aug 2018 04.32 EDT


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2018/aug/03/riding-with-the-native-americans-in-pictures

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Riding with Native Americans - in pictures (Original Post) turbinetree Aug 2018 OP
Did you forget to add the link to the story? A HERETIC I AM Aug 2018 #1
Wado------------Thank you turbinetree Aug 2018 #2
Very cool. A HERETIC I AM Aug 2018 #4
Recommended panader0 Aug 2018 #3
Interesting... Bayard Aug 2018 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author Mosby Aug 2018 #12
Philmayaye uppityperson Aug 2018 #6
Wonderful pictures and traditions to celebrate the Fort Laramie peace treaty. pazzyanne Aug 2018 #7
Thank you for the photos. Scarsdale Aug 2018 #8
Wado------------Thank you turbinetree Aug 2018 #11
Terrific photographic journey. Thank you for posting. oasis Aug 2018 #9
Wado------------Thank you turbinetree Aug 2018 #10

Bayard

(22,121 posts)
5. Interesting...
Sat Aug 4, 2018, 02:12 PM
Aug 2018

I've always read that a hand print(s) on the horse going into battle showed how many men that warrior had killed.

Response to Bayard (Reply #5)

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)
7. Wonderful pictures and traditions to celebrate the Fort Laramie peace treaty.
Sat Aug 4, 2018, 03:41 PM
Aug 2018

Thank you for sharing. Loved this quote:

‘We may be poor in the white man’s way but we are not poor in the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota ways because we are connected to this earth and connected to above and everywhere,’

Dave Swallow
an elder and headsman of the Oglala Lakota nation

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
8. Thank you for the photos.
Sat Aug 4, 2018, 03:51 PM
Aug 2018

Proud people, with proud traditions. I especially like the quote about feeding the horses first.

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