English: Title: Members of the Native American Women Warriors, a Pueblo, Colorado-based association of active and retired American Indians in U.S. military service, at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city

Creator(s): Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer Date Created/Published: 2015-07-18. Medium: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-highsm-33447 (original digital file) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 33447 (ONLINE) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Notes: Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.

Left to right, all U.S. Army: Capt. Calley Cloud, a Crow, based at Fort Riley, Kansas; Spc. Krissy Quinones Cloud, Crow, Fort Carson, Colorado; Retired Sfc. Mitchelene BigMan, Crow, the group's president and founder; and Sgt. Lisa Marshall, Cheyenne River Sioux, Fort Carson. The event was organized by the Palmer Lake, Colorado, Historical Society and One Nation Walking Together, a nonprofit organization addressing the needs of American Indians on reservations and living in urban areas. The women's patch honors Pfc. Lori Ann Piestewa, the first Native American woman in U.S. service killed in combat (in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom).

Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).

Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.