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Richard Ray Whitman
Richard Ray Whitman (born 1949) is a Yuchi-Muscogee multidisciplinary visual artist, poet, and actor. He is enrolled in the Muscogee Nation and lives in Oklahoma.Lester, 619Lippard, 216 Early life and education Whitman was born in Claremore, Oklahoma, in 1949.Vigil, Jennifer C"Richard Ray Whitman."''Museum of Contemporary Native Arts: Vision Project." (retrieved 10 May 2011) His maternal grandmother was Polly Long. Like many Yuchis, Whitman is enrolled in the Muscogee Nation, and his Yuchi name is T'so-ya-ha.Abbott, LarryRichard Ray Whitman, Yuchi.''A Time of Visions''. (retrieved 25 August 2009) He grew up in Gypsy, Oklahoma, and attended Bristow High School. He also attended the Institute of American Indian Arts, the California Institute of the Arts, and the Oklahoma School of Photography in Oklahoma City. Career Whitman began his art career as a painter and expanded to photography, installation, and video art. In 1973, he participated in the 71-day occupation of Wounded K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claremore, Oklahoma
Claremore is a city and the county seat of Rogers County in Green Country or northeastern Oklahoma, United States. The population was 19,580 at the 2020 census, a 5.4 percent increase over the figure of 18,581 recorded in 2010.MuniNet Guide:Claremore, Oklahoma Located in the foothills of the , the town is part of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area and home to . It is best known as the home of early 20th-century en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Territory
The Indian Territory and the Indian Territories are terms that generally described an evolving land area set aside by the Federal government of the United States, United States Government for the relocation of Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans who held aboriginal title to their land as a sovereign independent state. In general, the tribes ceded land they occupied in exchange for Land grant#United States, land grants in 1803. The concept of an Indian Territory was an outcome of the US federal government's 18th- and 19th-century policy of Indian removal. After the Indian Territory in the American Civil War, American Civil War (1861–1865), the policy of the US government was one of Cultural assimilation of Native Americans#Americanization and assimilation (1857–1920), assimilation. The term ''Indian Reserve (1763), Indian Reserve'' describes lands the Kingdom of Great Britain, British set aside for Indigenous tribes between the Appalachian Mountains and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carter Camp
Carter Camp (August 18, 1941, Pawnee, Oklahoma – December 27, 2013, White Eagle, Oklahoma) (Ponca) was an American Indian Movement activist. Camp played a leading role in the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties that traveled to Washington, DC, where protesters took over the Department of Interior building. Camp was also one of the organizers of the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, to highlight the Lakota desire for sovereignty. In his later years Camp opposed the construction of the Keystone Pipeline, an oil pipeline proposed from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Alberta to refineries in Illinois and Texas. Life Carter Augustus Camp was born to Woodrow Camp and Jewell McDonald in Pawnee, Oklahoma, on August 18, 1941, the third of six children of the Ponca family. His brothers Craig Camp, Dwain Camp, and Cordell Camp and sister Casey Camp-Horinek survived him. His sister Darlena Overland preceded him in death. His father W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siege At Wounded Knee
A siege is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or a well-prepared assault. This derives from la, sedere, lit=to sit. Siege warfare is a form of constant, low-intensity conflict characterized by one party holding a strong, static, defensive position. Consequently, an opportunity for negotiation between combatants is common, as proximity and fluctuating advantage can encourage diplomacy. The art of conducting and resisting sieges is called siege warfare, siegecraft, or poliorcetics. A siege occurs when an attacker encounters a city or fortress that cannot be easily taken by a quick assault, and which refuses to surrender. Sieges involve surrounding the target to block the provision of supplies and the reinforcement or escape of troops (a tactic known as "investment"). This is typically coupled with attempts to reduce the fortifications by means of siege engines, artillery bombardment, mining (also known as sapping), or the u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neither Wolf Nor Dog
''Neither Wolf Nor Dog'' is a feature film from Scottish director Steven Lewis Simpson, adapted from Kent Nerburn's novel of the same name, which won a Minnesota Book Awards in 1995. The film's film festival premiere was at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2016. Simpson released it himself directly into US cinemas in 2017 and it is still in first-run cinemas in 2019, which makes it the longest first-run theatrical release in the US in over a decade. Due to the success of his self-distributed release, Simpson was asked to give a TEDx Talk on his innovative distribution model. The film stars Chief Dave Bald Eagle in the lead role as a Lakota elder. He was 95-years-old at the time of filming and it was his first starring role in a film. The film also stars Christopher Sweeney as Nerburn, Richard Ray Whitman as Grover, Roseanne Supernault as the twins Wenonah and Danelle, Tatanka Means as Delvin, Zahn McClarnon as Billy and Harlen Standing Bear Sr as Jumbo. The film was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drunktown's Finest
''Drunktown's Finest'' is an American drama film directed by Sydney Freeland. The film had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014. The film later screened at the Sundance London Film Festival on April 25, 2014. The film was acquired by Sundance Channel after its premiere at Sundance Film Festival and was scheduled to broadcast in 2014. Plot Three young Navajo Native Americans - an adopted Native girl, a young father-to-be, and a trans woman who dreams of being a model - strive to escape the hardships of life on an Indian reservation. Nizhoni seeks out her past, well after being adopted by a white Christian family, Felixia, a trans woman, pursues a spot in the "women of the tribe" calendar, and Sickboy is headed to basic training so he can take care of his soon-to-be-born child. Cast *Jeremiah Bitsui as Luther SickBoy Maryboy *Carmen Moore as Felixia *Morningstar Angeline as Nizhoni Smiles *Kiowa Gordon as Julius *Shauna Baker as Karah *Elizabe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cherokee Word For Water
''The Cherokee Word for Water'' is a 2013 American drama film directed by Tim Kelly and Charlie Soap. Starring Kimberly Guerrero and Mo Brings Plenty in the lead roles, the film portrays the efforts of activist and future Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller to create a stable water supply to Bell, Oklahoma. Premise "The docudrama, directed by Wilma’s husband and longtime community development partner, Charlie Soap, follows a young Mankiller as she works to bring water to the rural, primarily Cherokee community of Bell, Ok." "...Together with a community of volunteers they build nearly 20 miles of waterline to save the community. The successful completion of the waterline led to Mankiller's election as principal chief, her and Soap's marriage and sparked a movement of similar self-help projects across the CN and in Indian Country that continues today." Production Filming started in September 2011 and took four weeks to complete, with shooting taking place in the Tahlequah urban a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winter In The Blood (film)
''Winter in the Blood'' is a 2013 American film written and directed by brothers Alex Smith and Andrew J. Smith and produced by Native American author Sherman Alexie. The film was based on the debut novel ''Winter in the Blood'' (1974) by noted author James Welch, who was a leader of the Native American renaissance in literature. Plot The film is set in Montana. In what has been called "a tale of simple, raw struggle and survival among a small-town Native American community", Virgil First Raise, a Native American, returns home after waking drunk in a ditch to find that his wife, Agnes, has left him. He sets out on an odyssey to find her. Cast * Chaske Spencer as Virgil First Raise * David Morse as Airplane man * Gary Farmer as Lame Bull * Julia Jones as Agnes First Raise * Dana Wheeler-Nicholson as Malvina * Lily Gladstone as Heather * Saginaw Grant as Yellow Calf * Michael Spears as Raymond Long Knife * David Cale as Bad Suit Reception Mark Olsen of the ''Los Angeles Times'' s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barking Water
''Barking Water'' is a 2009 independent feature film written and directed by Sterlin Harjo that premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Harjo's second feature film, it stars Richard Ray Whitman, Casey Camp-Horinek, Jon Proudstar, Aaron Riggs, Laura Spencer (actor), Laura Spencer, Quese iMC, Ryan Red Corn, and Beau Harjo. The film portrays a road trip by a dying man and his former lover across Oklahoma to visit friends and family, including his daughter and granddaughter in Wewoka, Oklahoma, Wewoka, the capital of the Seminole Nation.Ted Fry"Final trip together sometimes clumsy, often touching." ''Seattle Times'', April 16, 2010 . ''Barking Water'' was named best drama film at the 2009 American Indian Film Festival, and Casey Camp-Horinek was named best actress.Angelica Lawson, "American Indian Feature Filmmakers and Popular Culture", in Elizabeth Delaney Hoffman. ed., ''American Indians and Popular Culture'', (ABC-CLIO, 2012), , pp. 98-99Excerpts availableat Google Books. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Only Good Indian
''The Only Good Indian'' is a 2009 American independent Western film directed by Kevin Willmott. The film was shot almost entirely in Kansas—the only exception being a scene at Missouri's Ha Ha Tonka State Park—featuring locations such as the Monument Rocks and Fort Larned. Filming took place in 2007-2008, and the movie premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, subsequently showing at other film festivals. The film won Willmott "Best Director" honors at the American Indian Film Festival, as well as acting honors for Wes Studi and Winter Fox Frank in his debut as the Kickapoo youth. Plot The story is set in Kansas during the early 1900s. A Kickapoo youth (newcomer Winter Fox Frank) is taken from his family and forced to attend a distant Indian boarding school, designed to achieve to his assimilation into White society. When he escapes to return to his family, Sam Franklin (Wes Studi), a bounty hunter of Cherokee descent, is hired to find and return him to the school. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missionary Man (film)
''Missionary Man'' is a 2007 American action film co-written, directed by and starring Dolph Lundgren. Plot A stranger named Ryder (Dolph Lundgren) comes into a small Texas town for the funeral of his good friend J.J., a local Native American carpenter. Ryder spends his time in town reading the Bible while drinking straight tequila. Ryder talks to J.J.'s sister Nancy ( Kateri Walker) who says that J.J. drowned in a river, but J.J.'s teenage son Junior ( John D. Montoya) does not believe that. Local businessman John Reno ( Matthew Tompkins) introduces himself to Ryder and tells Murphy ( Charles Solomon Jr.), one of his employees, to keep an eye on Ryder. Sheriff Acoma ( James Chalke), who seems to be alcoholic, tells Ryder that he should leave town. Ryder beats up a group of Reno's thugs who are beating a local drug user named Billy (Jonny Cruz). White Deer (August Schellenberg), the father of Nancy and J.J., talks to Nancy's 15-year-old daughter Kiowa (Chelsea Ricketts), who i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four Sheets To The Wind
''Four Sheets to the Wind'' is a 2007 independent drama film written and directed by Sterlin Harjo. It was Harjo's first feature film, and won several awards at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and American Indian Film Festival. Plot The film tells the story of Cufe, a young Seminole/ Creek man who travels from his small Oklahoma home town to Tulsa to visit his sister, Miri, after the suicide and funeral of their father. While Miri struggles with her life in the city, Cufe becomes friendly, and then romantically involved, with Miri's neighbor, Francie, and he begins to perceive that his life has more possibilities than he had realized.John Anderson"This Time, the Indians Tell Their Own Story" ''The New York Times'', August 27, 2006.Andrew Horton, Joanna E. Rapf, eds., ''A Companion to Film Comedy'' (John Wiley & Sons, 2012), , pp. 386ffExcerpts availableat Google Books. Production The script was developed with the support of the Sundance Institute, and was filmed in Holdenville, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
