Native American, American Indian, Cheyenne Indian Family with Horse and Tipi (Colorized Photo)

 Native American Cheyenne Indian Family with Horse and Tipi (Colorized Photo)

Cheyenne Indian called Left Hand with family, and horse in front of their tipi. Another great colorized photo of a Cheyenne Indian woman Native American Indian Pictures and History: Cheyenne Indian Woman Photographed in Montana, 1878 (nativeamericanindianpicturess.blogspot.com)

 The Native American Demon: Piasu

Native Americans have a legend of a red eyed, dog-faced demon that once roamed the Ohio Valley called Piasu. To the Illinois, Piasu meant  "The Bird That Devours Men."  What was the origin of this demon?  Native Americans along the Ohio Valley also have legends of an ancient giant race.  In "The Nephilim Chronicles: Fallen Angels in the Ohio Valley" is evidence that these giants originated in the ancient Biblical lands and were the accounted giants in the Bible known as the Amorites. The Amorites controlled Babylon from 2000 B.C.- 1600 B.C.  In Babylon was an ancient demon that was very similar to Piaus, having red eyes, dog faced and winged; it's name was Pazuzu.  

The demon Pazuzu was the origin of the possession in the movie "The Exorcist." Is this what was roaming the Ohio Valley?

Today we still have tales of a winged, red eyed, dig faced creature that we now know as the Mothman.

 

Native American, American Indian, Cheyenne Indian Woman Photographed in Montana, 1878

A hand-tinted colored photograph of a  Cheyenne Indian woman named Pretty Nose.  She was photographed in 1878 at Fort Keogh, Montana.

Native American Sioux War Dance

 

Native American Sioux War Dance

Native American war dance performed by the Sioux Indians

 Native American Generosity

Little Friends

The Indian's civility and hospitality, both to his own kind and to strangers, has been a marked feature of his character from the coming of the white man to the present day. When Columbus touched the shores of the New World the friendly Caribs gave him hearty welcome. The heart's right hand of fellowship was stretched out in welcome and hospitality as explorers and settlers landed on American soil. Dignity, generosity, and courtesy marked the attitude of the Indian toward these new white strangers. The character generally attributed to the Indian is that of a savage, but this blemish came upon him through contact with the white man. Their ingenious and trustful nature quickly degenerated as they were enslaved, betrayed, and slain. The advantage was taken of their ignorance and kindness. Then came on a race war unparalleled in ferocity and barbarism. The inexorable march of civilization regardless of ethics swept on until we heard the Indians' war cry and failed to see the diviner grace of friendship. The Indian returned with interest every injury and hardship, every bitter assault and wicked aggression. He paid in full all accounts in the coin of pitiless revenge. These shadows obliterate our thought of him as courtier and [pg 36]hospitable host. The Indian will divide his last crust and then go hungry himself that you may have his half of the crust. Had it not been for Indian generosity in furnishing supplies of food, the early settlers in both New England and Virginia must have perished with hunger. Every guest entering an Indian wigwam is met by all the graces of hospitality—in cordial greeting—in a splendid home feeling.

 The Native American Demon Piasa, or is it the Babylonian Demon Pazuzu?

Native Americans have a legend of a red-eyed, dog-faced demon that once roamed the Ohio Valley called Piasu. To Illinois, Piasu meant  "The Bird That Devours Men."  What was the origin of this demon?  Native Americans along the Ohio Valley also have legends of an ancient giant race.  In "The Nephilim Chronicles: Fallen Angels in the Ohio Valley" is evidence that these giants originated in the ancient Biblical lands and were the accounted giants in the Bible known as the Amorites. The Amorites controlled Babylon from 2000 B.C.- 1600 B.C.  In Babylon was ancient demon that was very similar to Piaus, having red eyes, dog-faced and winged; it's name was Pazuzu.  

The demon Pazuzu was the origin of the possession in the movie "The Exorcist." Is this what was roaming the Ohio Valley?

Color Tinted Photograph of a Cheyenne Indian Woman in Traditional Dress

 Native American, American Indian, Color Tinted Photograph of a Cheyenne Indian Woman in Traditional Dress

Rare hand-painted color photograph of a Cheyenne Indian woman in traditional Indian dress. Photograph dates to the late 1800s

Native American Woman Looks Over the River: Indian Art

Native American Woman Looks Over the River: Indian Art

Painitng of an Indian woman looking at the river. Tribal affiliation is unknown but she is believed to be Ojibwa.

 Best Color Photos and Prints of Native Americans

Early 1900s print of a Native American woman looking over a large lake. The tribal affiliation was not specified, but my guess is that she is Ojibwa.

This is an Ojibwa woman next to the shoreline of a lake.  It is hard to determine if this is the same woman in the previous photo.

1908 photo of an Ojibwa Indian woman named She Who Travels the Sky

Blackfeet Indian children photographed in the 19th century showing colorful clothing and dress

Blackfeet Indian overlooking the Montana plains 

 A group of Crow Indians photographed in Montana

Oglala Sioux Indian family photo taken in 1899. Man in the left is Chief Little Wound

Rare colorized photo of Kiowa Indians that was taken in the late 1800s

Siksisa Indian tipis on the plains

Native American Box Burials

Native American Box Burials 

Under this head may be placed those examples furnished by certain tribes on the northwest coast who used as receptacles for the dead wonderfully carved, large wooden chests, these being supported upon a low platform or resting on the ground. In shape they resemble a small house with an angular roof, and each one has an opening through which food may be passed to the corpse.

Some of the tribes formerly living in New York used boxes much resembling those spoken of, and the Creeks, Choctaws, and Cherokees did the same.

Capt. J. H. Gageby, United States Army, furnishes the following relating to the Creeks in Indian Territory.

*** are buried on the surface, in a box or a substitute made of branches of trees, covered with small branches, leaves, and earth. I have seen several of their graves, which after a few weeks had become uncovered and the remains exposed to view. I saw in one Creek grave (a child’s) a small sum of silver, in another (adult male) some implements of warfare, bow and arrows. They are all interred with the feet of the corpse to the east. In the mourning ceremonies of the Creeks the nearer relatives smeared their hair and faces with a composition made of grease and wood ashes, and would remain in that condition for several days, and probably a month.

Josiah Priest gives an account of the burial repositories of a tribe of Pacific coast Indians living on the Talomeco River, Oregon. The writer believes it to be entirely unreliable and gives it place as an example of credulity shown by many writers and readers.

The corpses of the Caciques were so well embalmed that there was no bad smell, they were deposited in large wooden coffins, well constructed, and placed upon benches two feet from the ground. In smaller coffins, and in baskets, the Spaniards found the clothes of the deceased men and women, and so many pearls that they distributed them among the officers and soldiers by handsfulls.

In Bancroft may be found the following account of the burial boxes of the Esquimaux.

The Eskimos do not as a rule bury their dead, but double the body up and place it on the side in a plank box which is elevated three or four feet from the ground and supported by four posts. The grave-box is often covered with painted figures of 156birds, fishes and animals. Sometimes it is wrapped in skins placed upon an elevated frame and covered with planks or trunks of trees so as to protect it from wild beasts. Upon the frame, or in the grave box are deposited the arms, clothing, and sometimes the domestic utensils of the deceased. Frequent mention is made by travelers of burial places where the bodies lie exposed with their heads placed towards the north.

Frederic Whymper describes the burial boxes of the Kalosh of that Territory.

Their grave boxes or tombs are interesting. They contain only the ashes of the dead. These people invariably burn the deceased. On one of the boxes I saw a number of faces painted, long tresses of human hair depending therefrom. Each head represented a victim of the (happily) deceased one’s ferocity. In his day he was doubtless more esteemed than if he had never harmed a fly. All their graves are much ornamented with carved and painted faces and other devices.

W. H. Dall, well known as one of the most experienced and careful of American Ethnologic observers, describes the burial boxes of the Innuits of Unalaklik, Innuits of Yuka, and Ingaliks of Ulukuk as follows: Figs. 13 and 14 are after his illustrations in the volume noted.

Fig. 13.—Innuit Grave.

INNUIT OF UNALAKLIK.

The usual fashion is to place the body doubled up on its side in a box of plank hewed out of spruce logs and about four feet long. This is elevated several feet above the ground on four posts which project above the coffin or box. The sides are often painted with red chalk in figures of fur animals, birds, and fishes. According to the 
wealth of the dead man, a number of articles which belonged to him are attached to the coffin or strewed around it; some of them have kyaks, bows and arrows, hunting implements, snow-shoes, or even kettles, around the grave or fastened to it; and almost invariably the wooden dish, or “kantág,” from which the deceased was accustomed to eat, is hung on one of the posts.

Fig. 14.—Ingalik grave.

INNUIT OF YUKON.

The dead are enclosed above ground in a box in the manner previously described. The annexed sketch shows the form of the sarcophagus, which, in this case, is ornamented with snow-shoes, a reel for seal-lines, a fishing-rod, and a wooden dish or kantág. The latter is found with every grave, and usually one is placed in the box with the body. Sometimes a part of the property of the dead person is placed in the coffin or about it; occasionally the whole is thus disposed of. Generally the furs, possessions, and clothing (except such as has been worn) are divided among the nearer relatives of the dead, or remain in possession of his family if he has one; such clothing, household utensils, and weapons as the deceased had in daily use are almost invariably enclosed in his coffin. If there are many deaths about the same time, or an epidemic occurs, everything belonging to the dead is destroyed. The house in which a death occurs is always deserted and usually destroyed. In order to avoid this, it is not uncommon to take the sick person out of the house and put him in a tent to die. A woman’s coffin may be known by the kettles and other feminine utensils about it. There is no distinction between the sexes in method of burial. On the outside of the coffin, figures are usually drawn in red ochre. Figures of fur animals usually indicate that the dead person was a good trapper; if seal or deer skin, his proficiency as a hunter; representation of parkies that he was wealthy; the manner of his death is also occasionally indicated. For four days after a death the women in the village do no sewing; for five days the men do not cut wood with an axe. The relatives of the dead must not seek birds’ eggs on the overhanging cliffs for a year, or their feet will slip from under them and they will be dashed to pieces. No mourning is worn or indicated, except by cutting the hair. Women sit and watch the body, chanting a 
mournful refrain until he is interred. They seldom suspect that others have brought the death about by shamánism, as the Indians almost invariably do.

At the end of a year from the death, a festival is given, presents are made to those who assisted in making the coffin, and the period of mourning is over. Their grief seldom seems deep but they indulge for a long time in wailing for the dead at intervals. I have seen several women who refused to take a second husband, and had remained single in spite of repeated offers for many years.

Native American Color Picture Gallery, Including Cheyenne, Pueblo and Sioux Indians

Native American color-tinted portrait of a Cheyenne Indian

Native American Portrait of an unknown Indian from an unknown tribe.

Native American color-tinted portrait of a Pueblo Indian

Another Native American color-tinted photo of an unknown Native American woman

Native American color-tinted portrait of Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux Indian tribe

Native American Color Picture Gallery

Native American  Color Picture Gallery

Cheyenne Indian Chief White Robe

Two Backfoot Indian Chiefs.  Date and location unknown

Cheyenne Indian, Dog Solier-color print-art

color photo of a Chippewa Indian woman collecting maple

This is believed to be a Souix Indian tipi with women and children

Molly Spotted Elk (b. 1903), Penobscot Tribe- A Native American Glamour Actress

Molly Spotted Elk (b. 1903), Penobscot Tribe- A Native American Glamour Actress and dancer who gained success in New York and Paris in the 1920s and 30s in silent films.

Native American, American Indian, Cheyenne Indian Sun Dancers

Cheyenne Indians at a Sun Dance, by Edward S. Curtis, circa 1910. The Sun Dance is practiced primarily by tribes in the Upper Plains and Rocky Mountain areas. This annual ceremony is typically performed at the summer solstice (the time of longest daylight), with preparations beginning up to a year before the ceremony.

Native American Ojibwa Indians Rare Color Photos

Ojibwa Indians Rare Color Photos

Ojibwa Indian photographed in Minnesota in 1908

Ojibwa Indian in ceremonial clothing

Ojibwa Indian Chief

                                                                  Ojibwa in Maiden

Native American Blackfoot Indians Tipis and Villages in Color

Native American Blackfoot Indians Tipis and Villages in Color

Blackfoot Indian Tipis and Village site

Blackfoot Indian tipis and villages

Blackfoot Indian village and tipis in Montana

Inside a Blackfoot Indian tipi

Blackfoot Indian tipi lodge in Montana

Blackfoot village in Montana

Blackfoot Indian woman photographed inside her tipi with a young child

Blackfoot Indiana photographed inside their tipi or lodge

Two Blackfoot Indian women photographed inside their tipi in this colorized photograph

Blackfoot Indian Village colorized photograph

Blackfoot Indian decorating his tipi in Montana

Blackfoot Indian tipi in this colorized photograph

Blackfoot Indian woman taking down the tipi and ready to move to a new location

Beautifully painted Blackfoot Indian tipis

Blackfoot Indian tipi with what is believed to be a buffalo painted in the side

Blackfoot Indian village with decorated tipis

Beautifully decorated Blackfoot Indian tipi

Decorated Blackfoot Indian tipi with symbols