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From indigenouspeople.net Compiled by: Glenn Welker ghwelker@gmx.comCopyright @ 1993-2016
The Corn Ceremony was held in the spring or early summer as a prayer to the spirits to grant bountiful harvests and strength to the tribe.
A man who in the preceding autumn had witnessed the ceremony in a dream, climbed to the top of his lodge. There he made a vow to the Corn Spirit, whose name, Kadhutetash means "Old Woman Who Never Dies."
"Hear me, Old Woman Who Never Dies," the man said in a loud voice. "I shall give a great feast in your honour for four reasons. I want to live to see another season. I want my people to become strong and prosperous. I want our harvest to be bountiful. And I want our children to become as abundant as the flowers in the spring."
October 12, 2024
Mr. Hollow Horn Bear is a member of our advisory counsel, one of the original Elder-authors of the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings. Duane is also a wonderful storyteller. We are so happy to be able to share some of the stories he has shared in both English and Lakota language formats.
Chief-Four-Dance. Courtesy of US National Park Service.
This version of the legend was collected by Martha Warren Beckwith and published in her 1937 book Mandan-Hidatsa Myths and Ceremonies.
Charred Body had his origin in the skies. There was a big village up there and this man was a great hunter. He used to go out and bring in Buffalo, Elk, Antelope until the Buffalo became scarce - they scattered out far from the village. So one day he told his close relatives, "The Buffalo seem to have gone far away from here, and I am tired of hunting them so long. Some day they may multiply again, but now I am going to build a mound to sit on and look over the country." He made a practice of going up to his mound at intervals of three or four days to survey the land and listen to its sounds. One day toward nightfall he heard Buffalo bellowing.
September 7, 2024
This video is part of a set of interviews for the WoLakota Project. www.wolakotaproject.org “WoLakota” implies balance and coming together. The WoLakota project supports students in high-need schools, pairing trained mentor-teachers with new teachers and providing Courage to Teach circles to tend to the ʻheartsʼ of each. Mentors support the embedding of the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings (OSEU) into practice, complementing the Common Core. The OSEU address the achievement gap of American Indian students by embracing their identity, and promote cultural understanding among non-native students and teachers. Lakota Elder Dottie LeBeau states, “When we approach teaching with one worldview…we create systems of failure in our schools.” WoLakota closes the circle into a system of understanding and success. The WoLakota Project is a partnership between TIE and the SD Department of Education
August 3, 2024
Mr. Duane Hollow Horn Bear is a member of the Lakota advisory counsel, one of the original Elder-authors of the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings. Duane is also a wonderful storyteller.
July 6, 2024
Mr. Duane Hollow Horn Bear is a member of the Lakota advisory counsel, one of the original Elder-authors of the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings. Duane is also a wonderful storyteller.
June 8, 2024
Mary Louise Defender Wilson grew up in a family of Dakotah/Hidatsa storytellers and midwives on the Standing Rock (Sioux Reservation in North Dakota.
May 5, 2024
Mr. Duane Hollow Horn Bear is a member of the Lakota advisory counsel, one of the original Elder-authors of the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings. Duane is also a wonderful storyteller.
September 23, 2023
Mary Louise Defender Wilson grew up in a family of Dakotah/Hidatsa storytellers and midwives on the Standing Rock (Sioux Reservation in North Dakota.