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This Navajo Code Talkers monument is located in Window Rock, Ariz. The monument pays tribute to the Navajo Code Talkers, a small band of warriors who created an unbreakable code from their Native language and changed the course of modern history

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Cherokee Women and Their Important Roles:Women in the Cherokee society were equal to men. They could earn the title of War Women and sit in councils as equals. This privilege led an Irishman named Adair who traded with the Cherokee from 1736-1743 to accuse the Cherokee of having a "petticoat government".Clan kinship followed the mother''s side of the family. The children grew up in the mother''s house, and it was the duty of an uncle on the mother''s side to teach the boys how to hunt, fish, and perform certain tribal duties. The women owned the houses and their furnishings. Marriages were carefully negotiated, but if a woman decided to divorce her spouse, she simply placed his belongings outside the house. Cherokee women also worked hard. They cared for the children, cooked, tended the house, tanned skins, wove baskets, and cultivated the fields. Men helped with some household chores like sewing, but they spent most of their time hunting.Cherokee girls learned by example how to be warriors and healers. They learned to weave baskets, tell stories, trade, and dance. They became mothers and wives, and learned their heritage. The Cherokee learned to adapt, and the women were the core of the Cherokee

Another tiny piece of the mosaic that is American history....7TH CAVALRY HORSE CEMETERY
LITTLE BIGHORN BATTLEFIELD NATIONAL MONUMENT
CROW AGENCY, MT
After the battle, 39 cavalry horses that had been shot for breastworks during Custer’s Last Stand, were found among the dead on Last Stand Hill. In 1879, a temporary cordwood monument was erected by the Army on the crest of the hill. The area, strewn with cavalry horse skeletons, was policed and the remains of the horses placed inside the cordwood monument. In July 1881, Lt. Charles F. Roe and a detail from the Second Cavalry replaced the temporary monument with the present granite monument and interred the Seventh Cavalry casualties around the base. The 2nd Cavalrymen in fond reverence for the horses, re-interred them here, after the monument was erected, and lined the horse cemetery with cordwood from the original monument.
On April 9, 1941, maintenance workers discovered a horse cemetery here while digging a trench for a water reservoir drainage pipe. Among the artifacts recovered were partial human remains, cavalry boots, bullet-pierced hardtack cracker tins, and approximately 10 Horse skeletons. Further excavations was delayed until July 1946 when Lt. Col. Elwood L. Nye, U.S. Army Veterinarian continued the excavation work. Unfortunately, his report has not been located, nor what became of the horses uncovered.
In February 2002, the site was examined using ground penetrating radar, revealing soil anomalies in the area. National Park Service archeologists excavated the cemetery April 29 to May 1, 2002. Horse skeletal remains were found in two six-foot square areas just northeast of the Seventh Cavalry Monument. The remains included a vertebra, leg bones, shoulder bone, and rib bones. After thorough documentation, mapping, and photography, the horse cemetery (which was left in place for future reference) was covered with protective plastic sheeting and the site restored with backfill

Why Isn’t This Map in the History Books?The ancestors of living Native Americans arrived in North America about 15 thousand years ago. As a result, a wide diversity of communities, societies, and cultures finally developed on the continent over the millennia.
The population figure for Indigenous peoples in the Americas before the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus was 70 million or more.
About 562 tribes inhabited the contiguous U.S. territory. Ten largest North American Indian tribes: Arikara, Cherokee, Iroquois, Pawnee, Sioux, Apache, Eskimo, Comanche, Choctaw, Cree, Ojibwa, Mohawk, Cheyenne, Navajo, Seminole, Hope, Shoshone, Mohican, Shawnee, Mi’kmaq, Paiute, Wampanoag, Ho-Chunk, Chumash, Haida.
Below is the tribal map of Pre-European North America.
The old map below gives a Native American perspective by placing the tribes in full flower ~ the “Glory Days.” It is pre-contact from across the eastern sea or, at least, before that contact seriously affected change. Stretching over 400 years, the time of contact was quite different from tribe to tribe. For instance, the “Glory Days” of the Maya and Aztec came to an end very long before the interior tribes of other areas, with some still resisting almost until the 20th Century.
At one time, numbering in the millions, the native peoples spoke close to 4,000 languages.
The Americas’ European conquest, which began in 1492, ended in a sharp drop in the Native American population through epidemics, hostilities, ethnic cleansing, and slavery.
When the United States was founded, established Native American tribes were viewed as semi-independent nations, as they commonly lived in communities separate from white immigrants.

Our culture is about Understanding The connections with nature and connections with our own People and all others for Unity. We were a self sustained People who took only what was needed to live. Going back to our Culture Does not mean going back to live in tipis and moose hide loin cloths and running around eating leaves. It's about being connected to what created us to help protect the vulnerable and weak. We sit in circles because we don't Justify materialized possessions as Being rich, we don't Idolize one being Greater than the other. Our Ancestors walked this land. They prayed over this land to provide for us, the future generations to carry forward the wisdom of this land and its beneficial Lessons of survival and sustainable Resources from clean rivers to Healing Leaves , barks,Roots. Our Traditional Crafts are Precious lessons on patience and Discipline and Determination,Endurance to finish. We smudge with fungus and Plants That are proven to be healing In the smoke it's creates. We believe in a Creator Yes, But we also believe in a day All nations will Gather in unity as the red nation was ripped away from the mother land and separated out of fear that we will gain knowledge and grow in numbers.. when I say bring back our songs, bring back the circles, Build the Arbour to bring back our dances for the children to learn. Teach the lessons of Crafts and Artwork, explain the impact of Residential school on your own Family and the impact on the community be Brutally Honest even if it hurts. We as people Need to heal from the Abuse our mothers,Fathers, Grandparents their grandparents and older generations endured. Their prayers are why we are still here fighting for our rights,Fighting for our voices they silenced, growing our hair they cut. OPEN YOUR EYES AND LOOK AT HOW WE ARE TREATED EVERYWHERE. WE NEED TO STAND TOGETHER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.Ill still smudge for you all to the join the circle of YOUR people..