Montana

Turtle Island Storyteller Alma Hogan Snell

The Spirit of Pretty Shield

Alma Hogan Snell

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My name is Alma Hogan Snell. I am from Yellowtail, Montana. That’s at the foothills of the Little Big Horn. Oh! The Big Horns, really. That’s where I live with my husband. My daughter and her husband live above us. That’s where I’m from. I’m a child of the Whistling Water.

I belong to the Greasy Mouth Clan, my mother’s, and Pretty Shield. Pretty Shield is my grandmother. I didn’t know my mother. She was gone when I was about a year and a half. She died due to an accident and complications from it. I didn’t know anyone by Mother except Pretty Shield. We always said “Kale” which means grandma. Read more »

Turtle Island Storyteller Barney Old Coyote

Barney Old Coyote

Barney Old Coyote - Photo courtesy of Jackie Bissley

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My name is Barney Old Coyote. I’m a Crow Indian. I’m from the Crow Reservation in Montana.

In 1942 when my brother, Henry and I came home on a furlough before we went overseas, in a ritual that goes back into the tribal past and into the more recent practices, they had one of those old scouts do what we call a “warrior’s blessing” for us. He did not fight at Little Big Horn, but he rode with the cavalry. He was what we called a scout or, an enlisted man. My own grandfather was an enlisted man. He fought at Battle of Rosebud with General Crook, and he was one of the two Crows wounded at that battle. So Old Coyote, my namesake, where I get our surname was a member of the U.S. forces. So I knew some of them personally. Read more »

Turtle Island Storyteller Curley Youpee

My People

Curley Youpee

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My name is Curley Youpee. I’m a Minicoujou, Hunkpapa; Lakota and Pabaksa Dakota. I live on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Poplar, Montana. My ancestors came to Montana as a result of the Dakota uprising in Minnesota and also the unfulfilled treaty obligations, which brought on starvation of the people on the reservations of Cheyenne River and Standing rock. Read more »

Turtle Island Storyteller Dorrance Comes Last

Native Siouxperman

Dorrance Comes Last

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Dorrance Comes Last

Q. When we start out, just tell me your name and what you go by and like that.

Dorrance Comes Last. It’s either Bodu, just a nickname I have you know, for a real long time, but my rap name is just Native Sioux-Per-Man.

Q. Native Sioux-Per-Man.

Yeah. S-i-o-u-x. Read more »

Turtle Island Storyteller Jack Gladstone

Jack Gladstone

Jack Gladstone

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My name is Jack Gladstone a member of the Blackfeet Indian Nation. I’m enrolled on the Blackfeet Reservation in northwestern Montana and I’m a member of the Fisheater Clan of the Blood Division. Also I live currently between the Flathead Valley in northwestern Montana and the Blackfeet Reservation and the St. Mary’s Valley. Read more »

Turtle Island Storyteller Joe McGeshick

Joe McGeshick

Joe McGeshick

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I’m Joe McGeshick. Born and raised here on the Fort Peck Reservation. Forty-two years old. I’ve been in Indian education for about twenty-five years, taught high school and college level. Currently teaching at Fort Peck Community College, Native American Studies and History. Attended universities at Montana State University and Washington State University. Also taught at both of those institutions. Moved back here to Fort Peck Rez five years ago and been here ever since. Read more »

Turtle Island Storyteller Ken Camel

The Salish Greeting Ceremony

Ken Camel

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Good day, how are you doing today? My name is C’o Si Nemqmqey. It’s War Hoop Camel in Salish Pend D Oreille language. What I will describe to you today is the greeting ceremony of the Salish people. I want to note that it is since the 1600′s since that is when the horse first arrived on the shores. The Salish greeting ceremony went like this:
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Turtle Island Storyteller Lewis Walks Over Ice

Make a Joyful Noise

Lewis Walks Over Ice

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Okay, well, some of the ones we do is of course the Hot Dance or the War Dance, the Grass Dance. Contemporary people call it Powwow and also we have Sun Dance. Some tribes do that. That’s what we call it. That’s mostly done in the summertime. It’s a dance of sacrifice. They don’t drink or eat for three days, and they fast. So that’s more of a religious dance. Read more »




 
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