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Post by tatanka on Jun 7, 2012 7:57:17 GMT -5
I contribute regularly to the Sioux Nation Relief Fund, which is an organisation which provides help to the most vulnerable, the children and old people, providing them with hot meals and firewood during the winter months.
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Post by tatanka on Jun 7, 2012 7:44:42 GMT -5
An excellent artist. The only Indian to receive an Academy Award. She has done much, through her music and Cradleboard charity, to highlight the plight of the American Indian today.
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Post by tatanka on Jun 5, 2012 9:50:55 GMT -5
I have just started reading "With My Own Eyes" by Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun and Josephine Waggoner.
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Post by tatanka on Jun 3, 2012 5:53:04 GMT -5
TB is still a major disease on the reservations. On Pine Ridge, for example, the average age expectancy is 50 years.
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Post by tatanka on Jun 2, 2012 8:25:58 GMT -5
I would suppose that it is a record of all those who surrendered with Crazy Horse.
Wolfgang 911. I too find it strange that Lame Deers' grandson says so little of his grandfather. I would have thought he would have been proud of him.
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Post by tatanka on Jun 1, 2012 12:36:16 GMT -5
That would have to be the same horse Buffalo Bill presented to him.
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Post by tatanka on May 18, 2012 12:58:31 GMT -5
As far as photographs of Buffalo Calf Road Woman are concerned, according to the Agnitos and despite their exhaustive research, they found none.
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Post by tatanka on Aug 28, 2008 6:59:39 GMT -5
There was no stigma attached to the winkte in Lakota society. They usually kept pretty much to themselves but some were respected elders and medicine men.
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Post by tatanka on Aug 24, 2008 14:56:47 GMT -5
Annie. Great pics. Good quality too.
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Post by tatanka on Aug 24, 2008 11:03:35 GMT -5
Interesting post, Dietmar. There has been very little, if any, mention of the Pawnees on the forum.
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Post by tatanka on Aug 7, 2008 10:13:09 GMT -5
Didn't the pipe pass to the Looking Horse family thru a daughter?
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Post by tatanka on Aug 5, 2008 10:26:20 GMT -5
As recounted in The Gift of the Sacred Pipe by Vera Louise Drysdale, when the mysterious holy one, White Buffalo Calf Pipe Woman, came to the Lakota people and gave the Sacred Pipe, she spoke to them - and now to all of us -in this way. "With this pipe you will, during the winters to come, send your voices to Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, who is your Father and your Grandfather. With this sacred pipe you will walk upon the Earth ; for the Earth is your Grandmother and Mother, and She is sacred. Every step that is taken upon Her should be as a prayer. All things of the universe are joined to you when you smoke the pipe. When you pray with this pipe you pray for and with everything. Every dawn is a holy event, and every day is holy, for the light comes from your Father, Wakan Tanka. You must always remember that the two-leggeds and all other peoples who stand upon this Earth are sacred and should be treated as such. This pipe will take you to the end. Remember, in me there are four ages. I am leaving now, but I will be back upon you in every age, and at the end I shall return." Our Elder Sister, White Buffalo Woman, is presently "calling in her accounts" as a representative of the Creator, whose only given law at the beginning of the world was that we should be in good relationship with all beings and all things. We are each being called into account for living - or not living - this law that White Buffalo Calf Pipe Woman expressed with her words. We have forgotten the message she and all other holy ones have brought us, which reminds us that whatever we do to any other creature or thing, we do to ourselves.
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Post by tatanka on Aug 5, 2008 7:00:17 GMT -5
clw. Thanks for that. I knew about Kicking Bear and the Ghost Shirts. It was his idea alright. Wovoka never mentioned them. What is a bit intriguing is his relative is mnicoujou, yet KB was born Oglala. I wonder which band he considered himself part of.
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Post by tatanka on Aug 2, 2008 9:56:20 GMT -5
Was it Sully or Harney who was called the Woman-Killer? I think it was Harney.
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Post by tatanka on Aug 1, 2008 10:27:36 GMT -5
I have two of his books - Lame Deer and Lakota Woman. He was a very talented author and will be missed.
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