You can find me at Chief Plenty Coup State Park on the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend. That's where this picture was taken. These four veteran's were the Color Guard for Chief Plenty Coup's Day of Honor. This day was established to recognize Chief Plenty Coups achievements and to continue working to achieve his dreams. His goal was to develop a Peace Park for all people. A place where people could come and learn. He wanted people to find ways to work together.
Three members of the Color Guard are also members of the Native American Women Warriors. The organization was founded by Mitchelene BigMan a member of the Crow Nation, and a 22 year Army veteran. The organization was founded in March of 2010. They became a national non-profit organization March 1, 2012. If you were watching President Obama's 2nd Inaugural Parade you may have seen them.
I embedded four links in the picture using ThingLink http://www.thinglink.com/ . If you take your cursor and go over the picture you will find the links. Three are connected to the Native American Women Warriors and one is a link to Chief Plenty Coups State Park.
NAWW are doing a great job of bringing attention to the work our troops do and the roles of women in the military. There have been women warriors in many tribes. During the Battle of the Rosebud (June 17, 1876) one of the Sioux warriors was a woman. On the other side two of the warriors were women from the Crow Nation. The Crow Nation sided with the US Cavalry against their traditional enemies.
I was a member of the Montana National Guard for 24 years before retiring. I honor what the NAWW have accomplished.
I was a member of the Montana National Guard for 24 years before retiring. I honor what the NAWW have accomplished.
Hi Ruth, I'm still up--waiting! It's a wonderful photo, and I don't know anything about this, so thank you. You are giving me more and more history!
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Wow, this gave me chills - the fact that they want to preserve a place of peace and learning. Thank you for that piece of history!
ReplyDeleteRuth, you are always sharing so much information in your posts, I need this education as my Montana knowledge is limited. Thank you. Links in the picture are awesome!
ReplyDeleteYou continually share cultural and historical information. Today's post was very interesting. The most fascinating sentence in today's slice though was about you being in the Montana National Guard.
ReplyDeleteWow! This is fabulous. I haven't heard of thinglink.com, but I can only imagine how engaging this would be for my students! I might have to try it this week with some images I took of the Irish dancers that came last week, as we read about Irish culture and St. Patty's Day. I am not good at reading non-fiction in general, and your writing makes it SO easy!
ReplyDeleteMy mom taped a segment about the NAWW for me (maybe from CBS Sunday morning?) after they were in the Inaugural Parade! I've always loved Native American culture, and these women are certainly inspiring. I go to a lot of powwows, and they always have special ceremonies honoring veterans. I think it's really inspiring and bittersweet how much patriotism they exude for a country that has treated them so badly.
ReplyDeleteMy mom taped a segment about the NAWW for me (maybe from CBS Sunday morning?) after they were in the Inaugural Parade! I've always loved Native American culture, and these women are certainly inspiring. I go to a lot of powwows, and they always have special ceremonies honoring veterans. I think it's really inspiring and bittersweet how much patriotism they exude for a country that has treated them so badly.
ReplyDeleteDid you find the links in the pictures? They connect to further articles about the women.
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