Interview · North Dakota · Jerome Dancing Bull · NDNAEU 7
Themes: Kinship & family, Values & generosity, Culture & continuity, Food & plants, Arts & expression, Children & young people
Learn About questions
In what way is having young girls walk behind men, not in front of them a way of showing respect?
Why has this rule changed over time?
Why is it a sign of respect to not go near a Medicine Man? Is this rule still in place?
How do rules around separating men and women and also around who can talk to whom help to support the ways of being for the Hidatsa and Mandan people?
Learn From questions
Are there rules in my family that I later found out were not rules in others’ families? What is an example?
Have rules in my family changed over time? What caused the change?
What are ways I have been taught to show respect to others both within and outside of my family?
Transcripts
03 Jerome Dancing Bull: Rules Are Important
Watch this interview on YouTubeYoung girls like this weren’t allowed to walk in front of us you know if they if there was no choice that they had to walk in front of you they would ask you ask food and tell you that I’m gonna walk in front of you and you know you don’t see that nowhere or if there’s a certain person that was well respected that have medicines and stuff there you couldn’t even go around and we have to go all the way around you know and the woman sat on one side and the men sat on the other yo what you don’t see that no more no that’s that’s type thing that we still do that Mouse I still tell my kids that I don’t even talk to my dog my daughter-in-laws at all cuz I’m not supposed to and they understand that you know my mother my dad never talked to my mother’s mother and I talked to my daughter you know I think the bottom line was respect now when you go into a house when I was growing up two men ate first you know and women would sit in the living room or whatever and you they fed their men first and we get them then the women would come along that was still going on around the early sixties it but I don’t see it anymore you know I thought that was some of those traditions I think we’re a little too strict but yet they kept they brought us this far so there must be some good in them you know yeah some of those traditions restrict
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