The U.S. Marine Corps Memorial statue in D.C. includes Indigenous Native American Pima Indian Corp. Ira Hayes who served honorably and died alone of alcoholism. Here is a song and video by Johnny Cash (who was also Native American), honoring Ira Hayes.

On the day after Christmas in 1862, 38 Dakota men were hanged under order of President Abraham Lincoln. The hangings and convictions of the Dakota 38 resulted from the aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 in southwest Minnesota. ​

​In addition to the 38 men hanged the day after Christmas, there were terrible injustices committed against 265 others in the form of military convictions and inhuman injustices to more than 3,000 Dakota people who were held captive, then forced to march west out of Minnesota.

Speakers include Deborah Miranda (Ohlone Costanoan Esselen/Chumash), Caroline Ward-Holland (Fernandino Tataviam), Yve Chavez (Tongva), Olivia Chilcote (Luiseño, San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians), Val Lopez (Amah Mutsun), Renya Ramirez (Ho-Chunk/Ojibwe), Cutcha Risling Baldy (Hoopa Valley), Stan Rodriguez (Santa Ysabel/Kumeyaay). With respondents Jalane Schmidt of Black Lives Matter (UVA) and Amy Lonetree (Ho-Chunk). Sponsored by Critical Mission Studies, a project of the U of California.

​As a member of the “Apsaalooke Nation”, Supaman  makes his home on Apsáalooke lands in Montana.

“Supaman” Is Christian Takes Gun Parrish, a Native American dancer and innovative hip hop artist who has dedicated his life to empowering and spreading a message of hope, pride and resilience through his original art form.

His videos have received millions of views which have put him in high demand touring extensively throughout the U.S.A and internationally. He is currently on tour around the country spreading the good medicine of resiliency, love, laughter and inclusion. ​

In There There, the author's character Edwin Black  listens to "A Tribe Called Red" and describes this contemporary new music that combines Indigenous Peoples' modern, past, and present in one music.

Black says, "Back in my room I put my earphones in. Put on A Tribe Called Red. They're a group of First Nations DJs and producers based out of Ottawa. They make electronic music with samples from powwow drum groups". 

Orange helps bring important questions into discussion:
Questions: 

• If Indigenous peoples are "stuck in tradition, in the past, how can the past still be relevant to Indigenous peoples living now"?
• Bow can being Native be modern?
• Why do Indigenous people need to re-invent themselves?
• How can Indigenous people continue to live when ideas of the past (old ways) still hold expectations on who is a “real Indian”?

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​Indigenous people appear to be the only group of people living in the United States that other Americans, and the rest of the world, keep in the past. To many, if Indigenous peoples' culture and way of life (art,  foods, music etc.) do not pull from the past or "tradition", than it is not Indigenous (Orange, 77). Why?

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​The Halluci Nation, takes its name from a phrase coined by John Trudell, to describe the vast global community of people who remember at their core what it means to be human. As a visionary artist and activist, Trudell recognized the connection between his accomplishments and what ATCR did intuitively through music and art. 
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Trudell’s voice was the first heard on Tribe’s last record, We Are The Halluci Nation, and will, fittingly, be the first you hear on The Halluci Nation’s upcoming record, One More Saturday Night. The album is a love letter to the Electric Pow Wow gatherings launched at Ottawa’s Babylon nightclub in 2007. It represents an imagined denouement to the biweekly Saturday-night parties that ended abruptly in 2017, without ever getting the proper send-off. One More Saturday Night thus pays homage to the parties’ energy and momentum that elevated The Halluci Nation to this pivotal point in their career of fully mastering their own music style while also moving beyond club music; or “mixing dance music with dance music,” as Bear Witness succinctly puts it. 

“We wanted to pay homage to the Electric Pow Wow and wrap that whole decade of experience up and close the cycle, and in doing so give direct coordinates of where the future was headed. In a nutshell, that’s what this album is about,” says Bear. “We just wanted to make a party record, as well, one that people could dance to while still having the strong message we are known for.” 

​As was the case with its proud legacy, The Halluci Nation’s future revolves around collaboration. From hip-hop star, Yasiin Bey (AKA Mos Def), to the​

Indigenous Australian band, OKA, to the Wayuu-Colombian powerhouse, Lido Pimienta, the group has always sought out artists from around the world who would join the Halluci Nation family to form a like minded community as well as an international indigenous alliance.  The upcoming record will be no exception – with features as inspired and unpredictable as the music from Texas “electro-cumbia” producer, El Dusty, Anishnaabeg drum group, Chippewa Travellers, Maori artist, Rob Ruha, Inuk singer, Tanya Tagaq, and round-dance/R&B singer Antoine, among many others.

“We wanted to take the music to another place,” says 2oolman. “We showed a little bit of our ambitious side on this record and we got to do a lot of songs that we’d been wanting to do for a long time. And this is just the beginning. I wouldn’t be surprised if you heard The Halluci Nation produce a project for someone else. We’ve got so much more coming.”

This is a beginning, not an end, after all. The Halluci Nation maintains focus on what they feel they can impact most: how Indigenous people are seen. Through groundbreaking stage shows and ever-changing visuals, Bear Witness and 2oolman are working to create media that reflects today’s Indigenous identity. By partnering with striking visual artists such as Whess Harman, Saige Mukash and Cedar-Eve Peters along with a growing community of musical collaborators. They see themselves simply as contributors to a necessary conversation around a subtle and complex representation of the contemporary Indigenous experience. 
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The Halluci Nation is real. 

Today, American Indian Nations have adopted the idea of flying flags and forming U.S. type governments.   

The video below is of a young student named Peter, who offers his choices for "Top 10 Native American Flags." There are countless flags of Native Americans, including in flags of Canada and the Americas Indigenous Peoples.  

​​Today, the U.S. Government only federally recognizes 574 tribal Sovereign Nations. These 

nations are within, but separate from the United States and the U.S. states, with the right to govern themselves.

The U.S. government forced Tribal Nations to adopt constitutions and form recognizable local Tribal governments in order to receive federal recognition.

​Unfortunately, the U.S. government does not recognize countless Native American individuals, communities, bands, tribes, and nations recognized for various reasons, including the U.S. Indian Termination Policy of 1953.

Flag Songs

Many tribes even have their own national anthems known as flag songs that focus on veterans. They’re popular among Plains tribes from which the modern powwow originated, said Dennis Zotigh of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Powwows are social gatherings, generally with competitive dancing.​​

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Other tribes including the Lumbee, Eastern Cherokee, Mohegan and Pequot on the East Coast, and Cochiti, Jemez and Taos pueblos in the Southwest also composed their own flag songs, telling their stories and admiration for the U.S. flag, Zotigh said.
      - Military Times​