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Native American Women Warriors

LOC Title
Members of the Native American Women Warriors, a Pueblo, Colorado-based association of active and retired American Indians in U.S. military service, at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city
LOC Contributor Names
Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
LOC Created/Published
2015-07-18
LOC Standardized Date
2015
LOC Subject Headings
- United States--Colorado--Colorado Springs
- America
- American Indians
- Native Americans
- Pow wows
- One Nation Walking Together
- Calley Cloud
- Krissy Quinones Cloud
- Mitchelene Bigman
- Lisa Marshall
- Native American Women Warriors
LOC Notes
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
- Left to right, all U.S. Army: Capt. Calley Cloud, a Crow, based at Fort Riley, Kansas; Spc. Krissy Quinones Cloud, Crow, Fort Carson, Colorado; Retired Sfc. Mitchelene BigMan, Crow, the group's president and founder; and Sgt. Lisa Marshall, Cheyenne River Sioux, Fort Carson. The event was organized by the Palmer Lake, Colorado, Historical Society and One Nation Walking Together, a nonprofit organization addressing the needs of American Indians on reservations and living in urban areas. The women's patch honors Pfc. Lori Ann Pestewa, the first Native American woman in U.S. service killed in combat (in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom).
- Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).
- Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
EEC Creators
EEC Source Day
18
EEC Source Month
July
EEC Source Year
2015
EEC Format
EEC Type of Source
EEC Index Number
368
EEC Theme
EEC Topics