Stone, Chanell, and James Edward Mills. “Bringing Black History to Life in the Great Outdoors.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 20 Sept. 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/20/multimedia/black-national-park-rangers.html.
"A waterfall is water that has awakened. It's awakened to the reality that it's alive, and that it's flowing, and that it's moving through the air. And that awakening in the water seems to wake up something in us, too." -Shelton Johnson, #Yosemite Park Ranger
📹: Kylie Chappell pic.twitter.com/pHIFbJmdju— Yosemite Conservancy (@YoseConservancy) May 7, 2020
The photo is attributed to Carleton Watkins too, who was one of the first photographers of Yosemite. Not sure of the story behind Captain Jack, but here’s the caption from Flickr Commons: Repository: California Historical Society
Collection: Photographic portraits of Modoc Indians of the Modoc War
Photographer: Heller, Louis Herman
Date: 1873
General note: Printed on mounts: I certify that L. Heller has this day taken the photographs of the above Modoc Indian prisoner under my charge. Capt. C.B. Throckmorton, 4th U.S. Artillery, Officer of the Day. I am cognizant of the above fact. Gen. Jeff. C. Davis, U.S.A.
General note: Photos were published by Carleton E. Watkins. Watkins’ Yosemite Art Gallery advertisement on verso.
Format: Carte de visite
Call Number: PC 006
Digital object ID: PC 006_01.jpg
Preferred citation: Captain Jack, Photographic portraits of Modoc Indians of the Modoc War, PC 006, courtesy, California Historical Society, PC 006_01.jpg
sad, complicated, tragic
91 year old Harold Warren Jr. tells his son, Lee Warren, about serving as a “Buffalo Soldier” during WW II and his feelings about the Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument in Wilberforce, Ohio.
This interview was recorded in partnership with StoryCorps. Learn more at storycorps.org.
Important to support Ms. English in expanding what we know about Muir and how that story is told. What Black outdoor leaders can we also celebrate? Where are their houses? How might we visit them?
Here’s a start: Celebrating Black outdoor leaders
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