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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Standing in the Light: A Lakota Way of Seeing

Standing in the Light: A Lakota Way of Seeing

Theisz, R. D.
Young Bear, Severt

Paperback

Series: American Indian Lives

Native American HistoryGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 0803299125
ISBN13: 9780803299122
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Mar 1 1996
Pages: 209
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.03 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
For most of his adult life Severt Young Bear stood in the light--in the center ring at powwows and other gatherings of Lakota people. As founder and, for many years, lead singer of the Porcupine Singers, a traditional singing and drumming group, he also stood, figuratively, in the light of understanding the cherished Lakota heritage.

Young Bear's own life in Brotherhood Community, Porcupine District of the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation, is the linchpin of this narrative, which ranges across the landscape of Dakota culture, from the significance of names to the search for modern Lakota identity, from Lakota oral traditions to powwows and giveaways, from child-rearing practices to humor and leadership. Music is at the center of Lakota life, says Young Bear; he describes in rich detail the origins and varieties of Lakota song and dance. A descendant of chiefs and of Wounded Knee survivors, he recounts his role in Wounded Knee II 1973 and his association with the AIM Song.

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