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Hopes for My Son with Eya Co Nape Tasunka Fox

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Interview · North Dakota · Eya Co Nape Tasunka Fox · NDNAEU 2 · NDNAEU 6 · NDNAEU 7

Themes: Kinship & family, Culture & continuity, Arts & expression, Listening & observation, Children & young people

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Learn About questions

How do young people develop an interest in dance? When do young people have an opportunity to learn traditional dances? Why is it important to give young people opportunities to see and learn about traditional dance?

Learn From questions

What are my interests?  When did I notice I had this interest? Are there things that I do that I learned to enjoy from my parents/family? What are they? Is there a hope I have for my children or future children?

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NDNAEU 2, 6 & 7 "Hopes for My Son" with Eya Co Nape Tasunka Fox

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It would be awesome to see him dance but as I said you know if he yeah I mean he has a stuff he has everything but if that day decides to come where he’s gonna be like dad you know I like chess or I like doing this stuff or you know he has more attention to basketball like his uh like his uncle I’m gonna go with him you know I’m gonna push him what he’s interested in you know it’s it’s you know it’s crazy to think about you know but you know I’m also gonna I’m pretty positive though that he’s into this cuz you know he’s he has the beat he has a rhythm you know I mean I’ll be I’ll be getting ready for that ready for the day and you know I’ll be like oh shoot this new album came out and I’ll be listening to it listen to new song studying the new songs and sure enough you know I’ll hear his foot kicking my kicking while we’re driving and hitting on time and you know some parents be like don’t be kicking my seat and stuff like that but here I am be like hi Nate well I’ll change the song up on him you know sure enough he’ll be kicking the beat kicking my seat to the girl hop and it’s it’s pretty nice but as I said with my hopes for my son I hope I’ll you know just like my dad did you know I’ll hope whatever he wants to do in his life I’ll push him and stuff like that I’m not gonna push anything on him you know if he’s interesting he’ll talk about the hoop dancing you know were given the hoops after my time comes I mean that’s wow why a while a while but I mean he sees it I mean he’s he’s meant you know he knows that he killed he gets to meet people I mean we go out to power you know I see my friends that have kids too and you know he plays and stuff like that so and again that’s how friendship start I mean I mean again I can go back to I’m still really good friends to the people that I start dancing against when I was just a kid and I still keep in contact with them day by day and you know they hit me up just to see how I’m doing or I’ll hit him up to see how they’re doing

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