Red Dove's World

“Horses have been part of us since long before other cultures came to our lands, and we are a part of them…”

From Native News Online:  https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/indigenous-western-scientists-blaze-a-new-path-forward-alongside-sungwaka-the-horse-nation

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https://www.msnbc.com/know-your-value/business-culture/larissa-fasthorse-first-native-american-woman-bring-show-broadway-n1304408

Larissa FastHorse is the first Native American woman to bring a play to Broadway, but it was Zitkala Sa (the real-life Red Bird on whom the character of Red Dove is based) who brought the first show—The Sundance Opera–to be performed there, although it was her collaborator William Hanson who got the credit.

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3027&context=greatplainsquarterly

https://orchestraonenyc.org/composer-spotlight-zitkala-sa/gertrude-simmons

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/An+operatic+skeleton+on+the+western+frontier%3A+Zitkala-Sa%2C+William+F….-a082092548

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There’s so much that’s been forgotten about our own history. Women’s rights pioneer Matilda Joslyn Gage wrote admiringly about matriarchal forms of power, highlighting the strong role women played within the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, and in 1893 was offered an honorary adoption by the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Nation. Read more here:

https://www.waer.org/news/2022-12-17/how-much-did-native-american-women-influence-the-womens-rights-movement-in-the-us

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/native-americans-spread-horses-through-the-west-earlier-than-thought-180981912/

Native Americans spread the animals across the West before Europeans arrived in the region, archaeological evidence and Indigenous knowledge show.

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It’s been a rough winter for most of the country, but the spring moon has come at last–the one Lakota people called the Moon-of-Making-Fat. In Red Dove, Run Through the Fire, Red Dove found a reason to celebrate–so maybe we can too!

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Book Review: Red Dove, Run Through the Fire

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Well, here’s the answer:

https://stacker.com/history/states-biggest-native-american-populations

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