My journey into the world of digital art, from manipulation to AI

Image source license  "The Blackfoot confederacy of Alberta in Canada and Montana in the United States was created from closely related, Algonkian-speaking tribes: the Piegan, the Kainai (Blood), and the Siksika (from which the word Blackfoot derived). They were a powerful nation that covered the Great Plains of the North American continent. They were accomplished hunters and traders with posts that extended to the east coast and Mexico. The Blackfoot Confederacy is the collective name of three First Nations in Alberta and one Native American tribe in Montana. The Blackfoot Confederacy consists of the North Piegan (Aapatohsipiikanii), the South Piegan (Aamsskaapipiikanii), the Kainai Nation (Blood), and the Siksika Nation ("Blackfoot") or more correctly Siksikawa ("Blackfoot people"). The South Piegan are located in Montana, and the other three are located in Alberta. Together they call themselves the Niitsitapii (the "Real People"). Th...

Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside, Blythe, California, 1936. Image source license  Photographe Dorothea Lange

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr.  (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) Image source license  John Steinbeck was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published in 1937. In all, he wrote twenty-five books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories. In 1962 Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Chief Quanah Parker of the Kwahadi Comanche 1892 Image source license  The last Chief of the Quahadi Comanche , Parker was both a major resistor to white settlers, as well as a leader in the tribe’s adjustment to reservation life. Quanah was born around 1845 to Chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker , a white captive of the Comanche, near the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma. After 24 years of living with the Indians, Quanah’s mother was recaptured in the Battle of Pease River by Texas Rangers. After his wife’s recapture, Quanah’s father was a broken and bitter man and soon died. However, before his death, he told Quanah of his mother’s capture from the whites and with that, other tribesmen soon began to call him a half-breed and before long, the group split. Source

Outskirts of Salinas, California. Rapidly growing settlement of lettuce workers. Family from Oklahoma settling in makeshift dwelling. Image source license 

Scalping survivor Robert McGee - circa 1890 - Scarred after being scalped (at the age of 13 in 1864) Image source license  Robert McGee - colorized -colorization - color - BW