South Dakota

Turtle Island Storyteller Victor Mandan

Victor Mandan

Victor Mandan

 

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Where Miracles Happen

Hello, my people. I am Gun Guarding House. I am from the Mandan Tribe, and I have been asked to say a few words today .

We are losing stories every time we lose a person, and we are losing our elders very rapidly. There was a man buried just last week who could have been an immense help to me because he was of the Antelope Society, and I have a question which concerns those people and I didn’t get to ask him.

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Turtle Island Storyteller Jerome Kills Small

Jerome Kills Small

Jerome Kills Small

Jerome Kills Small (Oglala Sioux)

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We Act Out the Creation Story

I’m Jerome Kills Small from the Pine Ridge Reservation in western South Dakota. My Lakota name is Sisoka Luta (shee-sho-kah Loo-tah), which translates to Red Robin, but I always say Cardinal . Read more »

Turtle Island Storyteller Marie Randall

 

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Marie Randall

Le anpetu ki han, woaglakin kta yunkan. Sicangu Oyate ki hetanhan. Tiospaye Wah’peluta, Tiospag’ Hetahan imaca he. Nahan Tunkasila Weyakihan Mato Wahancunka iceyapi. Bear Shield. O nahan, Unci Weyaki Itasipa Wicaku Win eciyapi.

Takes the Bull Away, is my grandma’s name. My mother’s name is Anawazipi Win. Jealous of Her is her Indian sacred name. These are all sacred names that we carry in Lakota life. My dad’s name is Brush Breaker, which means breaking of a brush limb to save his people. That’s one of the sacred names that he carried for his father. I was chosen as an adoption of a relative. They gave me the name of Oyate Akitapi Win. Nation Woman is my name. Read more »

Turtle Island Storyteller Anne White Hat

Anne White Hat

Anne White Hat

 

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Anne White Hat (Teton)

O mitakuwiyape, cante waste na pecuzape. Ohitika Winmiye.

My name is Anne White Hat, and I come from Rosebud, South Dakota. Our family comes from my mother’s side, the Mato Ahuncika family and we’re also part of the Aske Tiospaye. That is in the Rosebud Reservation area. Read more »

Turtle Island Storyteller Earl Bullhead

 

Earl Bullhead

Earl Bullhead

Spirit of Song

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Without having an understanding of or researching who you are and how you identify with your culture. If you understand how important language is, then that’s the focus. That’s preservation, and that’s what I’m into. Read more »

Turtle Island Storyteller Gordon Bird

Gordon BirdTwo Songs

The following songs are from the CD ‘GENERATION to GENERATION.

Recording/Remix:
Featherstone Productions (co-founded by Gordon and JoAnne Bird)
PO Box 487
Brookings, SD 57006
605-693-3193

Turtle Island Storyteller Marcella LeBeau

Turtle Island Storyteller Marcella LeBeau

Marcella Ryan LeBeau is a member of the Two Kettle Band of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and lives in Eagle Butte, South Dakota. Her Lakota name is Wigmuke Waste Win (Pretty Rainbow Woman) Her great-grandfather, Chief Joseph Four Bear (Mato Topa), signed the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1868. Her grandmother, Louise Bear Face,...
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Turtle Island Storyteller Kevin Locke

Kevin Locke

Kevin Locke

Buffalo Dance Song

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Well, that is a traditional song. It really is a traditional song, but it’s a Buffalo Dance song.

I used to travel around with this group from Rosebud. It was Ben Black Bear, Sr. and Lloyd One Star and the old Iron Wood Singers. A group of us performed different traditional dances. In one of the song, in one of the dances was a Buffalo Dance. Ben Black Bear had this song. He was really a treasure, just a walking encyclopedia of traditional knowledge. He had this real beautiful Buffalo Dance song. I’ve never heard it since then. That was the only time. Nobody’s used it. You know, it’s been like thirty years since I’ve heard them sing it. So then, I just love that tune. I thought, well, I’ll use it, you know. It’s a beautiful song and what it’s saying is about the force that moves the buffalo over the country. Read more »




 
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