Sunday Stamps | First Nations People

Geronimo or Goyaałé (1829 – 1909) was a leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. The stamp was issued in 1994, and it belongs to the USPS' series Legends of the West.

Standing Bear or Maⁿchú-Naⁿzhíⁿ (c. 1829–1908) was a Ponca chief and Native American civil rights leader who successfully argued in US District Court in 1879 in Omaha that Native Americans are "persons within the meaning of the law" and have the right of habeas corpus, thus becoming the first Native American judicially granted civil rights under American law. The stamp was issued by USPS on 12 May 2023.

This stamp (a favourite of mine!) belongs to the Truth and Reconciliation set, issued by Canada Post on 29 September 2022, in connection with the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on 30 September. The designer of this one is Inuit artist Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona, and this are her words explaining the artwork (taken from this article, where you can read more about this issue):

I believe each group within Canada has a different responsibility for reconciliation. For Indigenous People, our responsibility is to ourselves and to others within our communities: learning or passing on our language and culture that was attacked only one generation ago. I created a woman lighting a qulliq (QUL-liq), the traditional Inuit stone lamp used for heat and light to signify caretaking. This woman is carrying on in her culture as she has always done, taking care of herself and others and healing.

This is a post for Sunday Stamps.