as small as a world and as large as alone

8:38pm August 4, 2013

clatterbane:

And more of these guys, just because I can. I haven’t yet seen them perform in person, but would really like to one of these days.

(via American Indian Initiative - Williamsburg, Virginia - Museum | Facebook)

The Warriors of Ani Kituhwa return to dance the Palace Green in Williamsburg, commemorating the dances the warriors of Chota last performed there in 1777. 

I didn’t even choose this pic for that reason, but this is also a good illustration of how some of the “Red Indian" or “Redskin" shit got started. Besides the bloodroot super-red shown before, people all over the East used to use red ochre pigments as sunscreen, like in a lot of the rest of the world. It mostly gets used commercially as bronzer now. 

That is not their real skin color. It comes off. (Whether you want it to or not, as you can tell here.) How anybody ever mistook that for anything other than a cosmetic, even when it wasn’t looking all streaky, I have no clue. But, they apparently really did.

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