Chief meet

Wisdom

Native American beauty: Hoop dancer

A woman’s highest calling is to lead a man to his soul, so as to unite him with the source. Her lowest calling is to seduce, separating his soul and leave him aimlessly wandering. A man’s highest calling is to protect woman, so she is free to walk the earth unharmed. Man’s lower calling is to ambush and force his way into the life of a woman. 

Native American Cherokee Proverb

IT’S AN OTTER! I was looking for a drawing like this a few years ago… and I tumbled upon it. How cool.

sonhosesuspiros:

I like this because my town is called “Ericeira” which means Sea Urchin in our language. And there are plenty of them here at the beaches…

ayiman:

Kwiakiutl Sea Otter with Sea Urchin by John Livingstone

Hupa Native American with his spear, 1923. Photographed by Edward Curtis.

Their autonym is Natinixwe, also spelled Natinookwa, meaning “People of the Place Where the Trails Return.”

HEADDRESS.

(via noirfacade: Reserva India | Toni Garrn by Alexi Lubomirski for Vogue España April 2011)

Headdress, white dress, deserted.