Native Americans have many varied traditions.  This picture looks to me like it could have been taken at the New Echota Indian Camp just outside of Calhoun.  If you have never been, you should go experience it.  It is a place that holds many Indian artifacts and history.  There are old, old houses there that the Indians built as well as tools and such that helps us understand their way of life before the trail of tears occurred.  They were forced from their homes and lands.  They were forced to march from Georgia all the way to Oaklahoma and forced onto reservations.  Having grown up on a large piece of land and being very grounded and connected to that land, I can only  imagine how devastating that must have been.  Every year, New Echota hosts a remembrance ceremony.  Usually, groups of Indians gather to celebrate their resilience and remember the lost.  This particular picture looks to me like it could be for a ceremony of remembrance.  Perhaps the pictures on the outfit are of loved ones that have been lost.  The outline of the guns represents  the fact that the Indian peoples will always fight for independence and justice.  The papers in his hand represents the treaties that the American government signed with the Indian people and then did not honor.  The ram-shackle, falling down old house shows the state of disrepair and poverty that most of the Indian reservations are in.  However, the brilliant yellow color of his costume represents the spirit of the Indian people.  It will always shine brightly.  The wings on his costume represents two things.  First, it represents the soul and the spirit of the lost loved ones flying free.  Second,  they represent that the Native American spirit will always fly free and overcome the hardships they face.