Kids Prepare for Pow Wow
May 11, 2012
North Elementary School in Mission will end the school year with a Wacipi (pow wow) on Friday, May 18. Students at the K-3 school have been making preparations, and it has become a learning experience that you won't find in the usual textbooks. The pow wow begins with a feed at 11:30 a.m. at the Sinte Gleska Multi-purpose Building, and the music and dancing will follow. Photos by Bernie Hunhoff.
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Toby Godoy came to North Elementary to teach the youngsters how to stitch cloth heads for the drum sticks. -
Girls made shawls that they will wear as they dance at the wacipi. "The pride they have taken in the pow wow is really something to see," says kindergarten teacher Stacee Valandra. -
Third grade boys practiced the Lakota flag song. Shown from left are Allen Antelope, Jeff Mandan and Loren White Hat. Deb Waln, the third grade teacher at North Elementary, learned the song from elders and from taking a Lakota language course at Sinte Gleska College. She says the pow wow preparations have involved the entire community — parents, Lakota cultural leaders and others. -
At South Elementary, the fifth graders have also been learning their Native American culture. Bryant Burnette beat the drum and led classmates in a song. -
Girls at North Elementary showed a lot of creativity in their shawl-making. -
Josie Red Hawk's shawl features a butterfly design. -
Greg Gray Cloud helped the students stretch a calf hide for a drum. -
The fifth graders at South Elementary posed for a photo with their teacher Karen Leneaugh, who advises the school's drum group.
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Now...I just hope Public TV is there to film...and I hope KELO would also be there to film and do a feature story.
These are the kinds of stories and pics we need from that part of the state.