A white woman, Linda Roeder, noted "I see a strong willed, wise, confident man and kindness in his eyes. Very much an attractive male." when she looked at Scorched Lightning's photograph dressed in his regalia with a Bear claw necklace and a stoic expression upon his face.
Nothing wrong with that. He is handsome.
Yeah, but imagine what he was pondering looking into the eyes of the white man fussing over his camera equipment and trying to make easy banter across enemy lines of thought and belief! What hostile feelings did he have to swallow as compromise? Whites don't, didn't compromise, and incapable of compromise in the late 1800's was this the face Scorched Lighting placed upon his face for a piece of his soul to be captured for posterity? We will never truly know, but our ancestors within and around us remembered to keep it in the songs and stories and the remnants of the Old Ways, and the ceremonies keeping us Indians to our People. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9.28.15
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| Lakota man, Scorched Lightning late 1800's |
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