Lettering by Quinton Maldonado

“When we’ve learned our own history, it’s been taught to us by the Europeans - or their version of the interaction between Europeans and indigenous people - so this project gives voice to our perspective…

The narrative being told by us is off-the-scale important for a lot of reasons, but simply because we’re telling our own story and we haven’t done that on a large scale ever.”

- Joseph Marshall III

Follow our journey.

 
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View fullsize Some of the smiling eyes behind the project 🙌 😷 ❤️ #heartofallohp
View fullsize Today is the day! The final part of our final episode will be played for the first time ever on @kiliradio90.1. Countless hours of editing, listening, writing, then editing, listening, and writing (and quite a bit of painting) have come to this. Tune
View fullsize Because this is the world we live in… Check out the ⭕️s, ♥️s, and 🎁s!
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View fullsize Tonight at 5:00pm MST on @kiliradio90.1 at www.kiliradio.org, hear the premiere of Part 1 of our FINAL EPISODE “Walking Together : Past, Present, and Future” ☕️📻 Check ✨ story for process of our first mural! 🌱
View fullsize Last Tuesday, we presented the project to our new friends at the Rapid City Youth City Council as an educational resource that can be used in South Dakota schools. RCYCC has been advocating courageously to keep Lakota history and cultural studies wit
View fullsize It was a great day seeing friends & family and doing a little work yesterday ✨
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View fullsize Describing the site of the 1973 Wounded Knee Occupation, Jessie Pulliam said, "So there was a trading post, museum, and a store, all hooked together there. And the only thing standing is that chimney." 🎨 Jada Kangi Waste
View fullsize In 1942, over 100 Lakota families were moved from their allotments in the northern portion of the Pine Ridge Reservation to make room for the Badlands Bombing Range. Jimmy Christensen told us that here at "XU Hill" you would have to turn of
View fullsize Here is an updated version of our KILI Radio schedule, where the episodes debut on Wednesday nights at 5:00pm MST. We just decided to turn Episode 6 into two parts which means our final episode will now air on May 18th. Tune in locally at 90.1 FM or
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View fullsize In Episode 4 Part 2, John Haas tells us a story his Ina shared with him: "If word got out that you were 'talking Indian' or talking about Little Bighorn...or Wounded Knee, she said the Indian Police would come and they'd drag your garden...They'
View fullsize On December 7th, 1941, the United States of America declared war on Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Three days later, the U.S. fully entered World War II after Italy and Germany declared war against it. Within 7 months, the U.S. government t
View fullsize This draft by former Little Wound student Stephanie Janis depicts the decision between saving one's parents or one's wife and child - explained in Episode 4 by Tom Hollow Horn as a stark choice between past and future - at the Wounded Knee Massacre.
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View fullsize In Episode 4, you will hear actual testimony from survivor Wasu Maza(Iron Hail), otherwise known as Dewey Beard, about the Wounded Knee Massacre. We were told that he lived in this cabin near Kyle for a time following the Massacre.
View fullsize This is John Gast's famous painting entitled "American Progress," photographed at the National Museum of the American Indian. Columbia, the female representation of America, is said to carry the values of republicanism(liberty and civic vir
View fullsize “The horse enabled us to follow the buffalo herds...To the Cheyenne people, the horse was like part of our family." -Lenora Hart Holimann reflecting on the Washita Massacre This beautiful ledger war pony by @kansas_clifford is the feature

Lettering by Quinton Maldonado | Artwork designed by Elizabeth Iron Horn and colored by Kansas Clifford