Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉

Oglala Lakota/Yurok/Ojibwa-Greatx grand son of Chief Red Cloud☁️💯 Lakota WAY & REZ NDN-my Wife is my ❤️- MAGA people R a Toxic Cult--Human Rights for ALL #fttb

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

The US Supreme Court ruled in 1980 that the Black Hills were unconstitutionally taken and awarded the local tribes a settlement of $120.5 million, which, with interest, is now worth over $1.5 billion.

The Lakota Tribe continues to assert their right to the land and has not accepted the monetary award, stating that- 'The Black Hills Are Not For Sale'!

[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

Map of the United States if the 1851 Treaty of Laramie was respected

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

This image highlights two historical realities that are essential to understanding how the United States was formed.

Before European colonization, Indigenous peoples lived on, governed, and maintained these lands for generations. As the nation expanded, Native communities were pushed off their territories through war, forced removal, and treaties that were frequently violated. The loss of land, culture, and autonomy had lasting consequences that continue to affect Native nations today.

At the same time, millions of Africans were forcibly taken from their homelands through the transatlantic slave trade. Enslaved people were compelled to provide unpaid labor that supported major industries such as agriculture, construction, and transportation. This labor contributed significantly to the country’s economic growth while denying basic human rights to those who were enslaved.

These histories are not competing narratives — they are interconnected parts of the same national story. Land was acquired through displacement, and wealth was built through forced labor. Understanding this does not place blame on people living today, but it does require honesty about how the past shaped the present.

Learning accurate history helps explain modern inequalities, ongoing discussions about justice, and the importance of acknowledging all communities involved in the nation’s development. Education, not denial, is what allows societies to move forward with greater awareness and accountability.

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

We often feel pressured to react immediately when things get intense.

Chief White Eagle’s advice:

“So long as mists envelop you, be still; be still until the sunlight pours through… then act with courage.”

When anger or fear clouds your view, don’t force a move. Pause. Let the fog clear first.

Stillness isn't giving up. It’s waiting for visibility.

[John - The Grey Wolf @JohnWolf1239]

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[Bécquer 🇪🇸✒🔡 @GustavoAdolf_]

"Antes de que nuestros hermanos blancos llegaran para civilizarnos, no teníamos prisiones, por eso, no tuvimos delincuentes. Sin una prisión, no puede haber delincuentes. No teníamos cerraduras, entre nosotros no había ladrones. Cuando alguien era tan pobre que no podía tener un caballo, una tienda de campaña o una manta, lo recibía como un regalo. Éramos demasiado incivilizados para dar importancia a la propiedad privada. No conocíamos el dinero y por eso el valor de un ser humano no estaba determinado por su riqueza. No teníamos leyes escritas, ni abogados, ni políticos, y por eso, no fuimos capaces de engañar y estafarnos unos a otros. Estábamos muy mal antes de que llegaran los hombres blancos y no sé cómo explicar cómo fuimos capaces de convivir sin estas cosas tan necesarias para una sociedad civilizada."

John Lame Deer 🇺🇸 (1903-1976)

[Brett Chapman @brettachapman]

All of the centuries of Indigenous resistance to White colonization should never be forgotten and should always taught in U.S. schools because Native Americans were the good guys in that long fight for freedom—so many brave people fought the good fight for their land and liberty!

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

“A fiery spirit burst from your soul.”

~ A.D Posey, Muskogee Creek Nation, (1873-1908)

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

“If there are no dogs in heaven—then when I die I want to go where they went.”

~Cherokee,

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

they targeted our lifeblood: "A Dead Buffalo is a Dead Indian." The U.S. Army explicitly aligned with commercial hunters to slaughter tens of millions of bison to starve our families. Then, they targeted our minds: "Kill the Indian, Save the Man." In 1879, the trail of blood entered the classrooms with the founding of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, forcefully removing Lakota children to execute their very identity.
Years later, the newspapers cheered the massacre at Wounded Knee, calling it "retribution" for Custer at the Little Bighorn. I often wonder... after Wounded Knee, and after seeing our children stolen away, how deeply the sadness must have set in with Mahpiya Luta. They tried to make us disappear.
But generations later, the empire's propaganda has completely failed. The bloodlines of our ancestors are still here, standing strong, breathing the truth of this sacred land. While that structural trauma knocked our people off balance for a time, today we are beautifully finding our footing again.

Ten years ago, the reservation silences were heavy and our Sundances were few. But today, the circles are returning. The drums are beating loud and clear, and the laughter of our children carries the very language they tried to take from us. Our culture isn't just surviving—it is thriving.
I know that when Grandpa Red Cloud left this plane, he carried a heavy heart. But I smile knowing that today, he looks down from the stars and sees the dust rising from the dance grounds. He sees our beautiful people gathering, reclaiming our strength, and finally regaining our balance.

We Are Still Here!

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

The Story Behind the Trail of Blood: Bozeman Trail!

On June 16th, 1870, my 3x great-grandfather, Chief Red Cloud (Mahpiya Luta), stood inside the echo-filled halls of Washington, D.C. He looked directly at the politicians of an expanding empire—men who engineered a false narrative of native "savagery" back east to mask their own systemic bankruptcy. Red Cloud had just defeated their army on the Bozeman Trail, forced them to burn their illegal forts, and sign the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. Now, he delivered the absolute truth of their Manifest Destiny:
“Whose voice was first sounded on this land? The voice of the red people who had but bows and arrows. What has been done in my country I didn’t want, didn’t ask for it; white people going through my country—when the white man comes in my country he leaves a trail of blood behind him."
As his grandson, I am writing the version the textbooks left out. The mechanics of that "trail of blood" were uncovered years earlier by another 3x great-grandfather of mine.

In 1855, West Point engineer Major Thomas Twiss was sent out as the Upper Platte Indian Agent. The empire expected him to provide a military justification for expansion.
Instead, Twiss’s investigations revealed a profound truth: the Lakota were strictly honoring the 1851 treaty lines, while rogue white contractors, illegal gold prospectors, and lawless militias—the "grey men"—were deliberately manufacturing violence to spark a war & steal land.

Twiss refused to be an instrument of a corrupt state. He used his power to shield Native families from unprovoked military massacres. By 1861, the government stripped him of his office.

Twiss threw away his uniform, grew his hair in braids, married Mary Standing Elk, and completely adopted the Lakota way of life.

The government knew the Lakota were peaceful. Their own agent had documented it. But peace didn't satisfy American greed. Drowning in a colossal $2.7 Billion National Debt when the Civil War ended in 1865, the United States was a nation built on a house of cards.

Even as the 1868 treaty was being signed, tensions escalated as the empire looked to claw back control.

During this exact pressure cooker, shortly after in 1869, the Ghost Dance movement first began. Born from the Paiute Nation, it was a traditional circle dance of spiritual rebirth and renewal. The songs we sang held absolutely no mentions of war or killing anyone. They were peaceful prayers to heal the earth.

Yet, when the economy shattered completely during the panic of 1873, the empire broke its own supreme laws. In 1874, they sent Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry on an illegal expedition into our sacred Black Hills (Pahá Sápa). Custer brought a full corps of engineers, scientists, and miners to map the territory—and to find gold.

When the engineers confirmed gold, the government abandoned the 1868 treaty. To justify this theft, they deployed their most lethal weapon: the printing press. East Coast newspapers and yellow journalists became the propaganda arm of the state, manufacturing psychological warfare. When our people turned to the Ghost Dance for hope, the white press fabricated stories of a "Bloodthirsty Red Devil Craze."

They created a state of absolute, manufactured hysteria. Terrified readers back east demanded blood, begging the government to send the army to crush a threat that the newspapers had entirely invented. This weaponized media coverage gave the federal government the mandate it needed.
Driven by ungrounded fear, U.S. agents banned the dance and deployed the 7th Cavalry once again. That fabricated hysteria led directly to the frozen horror of the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. In the late 60’s, when they realized they could not break our warriors on the battlefield without total bankruptcy, they turned that media-fueled trail of blood directly toward our survival and our children. First, they targeted our life blood: “A Dead Buffalo is a dead Indian.”

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

"There is no death—only a change of worlds."

- Chief Seattle, 1786-1866

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

Columbus visited exactly zero of today’s 50 states.

The United States gave him a federal holiday anyway. Quite a welcome for a man who never arrived.

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

“It also made her think of the sounds of ceremony—the eagle whistles, the drum, the shakers. It made her think that we really are replicating the sounds of nature through our music and celebrations—all of which help heal us.”

~ Aimée Craft,

[Kili One @Sicanguhemaca]

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[Brett Chapman @brettachapman]

Indigenous Peoples Day is today and it’s important to remember Native Americans are not merely historical people. We are still here and the oldest injustice in US history—the dispossession of land from hundreds of Indigenous nations mainly by fraudulent treaties—is still ongoing!

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

The atmosphere was absolutely electric. ⚡️ Traditional dancers honoring the ancestors and dancing to the Greasy Grass Victory Song at the Black Hills Powwow 2026, when "General Custer" showed up... it didn't end well for him.🪶🏹

Historically accurate re-enactments are hitting different this year! 🎯 Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!
#powwow #indigenous #warrior #culturalpride #IndigenousPeoplesDay #BlackHillsPowWow #GreasyGrass #LittleBighorn #Custer #HistoryReclaimed #Lakota

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

The energy here was unmatched. 🔥 A Marine honoring the ancestors and dancing to the Greasy Grass Victory Song at the Black Hills Powwow. 2026
#powwow #indigenous #usmc #military #warrior #culturalpride #IndigenousPeoplesDay

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

“The First Peace comes within when we realize our Oneness with the Universe... The Great Spirit dwells at the Center, and this Center is really Everywhere—it is Within Each of US.”

~ Black Elk, Heȟáka Sápa, Oglala Lakota (1863-1950)

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

“I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.”

~ Crazy Horse, Tasunké Witko-(1841-1877)

📸: Sylvan Lake, SD

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

“As great as is the light above us—greater by far is the light within!”

~ Hopi,