Interview · North Dakota · Demus McDonald · NDNAEU 2
Themes: Land & stewardship, Kinship & family, Storytelling & oral tradition, Education & learning, Humor & play
Learn About questions
Who is Iktomi?
What kind of character does Iktomi play in stories?
In what ways does Iktomi exist in our lives today?
Learn From questions
What stories do I remember being told as a child?
What kinds of lessons did I learn from those stories?
What characters do I remember from stories I was told as a child?
Transcripts
Iktomi Story of Bad Medicine (in English) with Demus Mcdonald NDNAEU 2
Watch this interview on YouTubeNon-going on a hot summer day there was gonna be a while they call it but they’ll get your guys around fourth of July you having a big power so that these families working to go in the first family their grandpa he was blind and he didn’t want to go he said I can’t see anyway it’s too hot this era I don’t want to go to power so they said to our company floor and visit with your cousin over there today he’s fine - I’m all right toes it so they brought him out they put him in a wagon then and a wagon when they’re going his legs were dangling and from that person they got to the neighbor they lived in log hostel so they took grandpa I brought him to the door they brought him in and they set their chairs with her faces her they couldn’t see each other but just so they could talk so here they were facing each other then talk and then the yeah for both families got it her wagons and went to the celebration just didn’t uh told me came and he looked inside and he turned himself into a young man because they told me I had the power to turn himself into anything he wants a young man yeah young woman and whatever so here he came through the door he looked in there sitting there visiting talking about a long ago so he snuck in he went by that water real quiet he took a drink then he went to where they were sitting talking about a long time so he took one of them came and he hid the one across so the first grandpa said cousin you hit me and it’s a destiny hit the air on Willis came to he hit the other one put his kingdom you hit me to reason bujjamma parents that he took his candy Aaron took his game the games were cracking we were fighting so Tony made them fight and then he got a kick out of that’s what he liked to see you like to see people fighting him that’s still happening today they there’s a case of that the blue building has poor thought there’s a person that put some bad medicine under all the doors so when people go there to check the mail and stuff they come under that bad medicine it comes in to him and changes they think different anything matter then they’ll be calling arguing the councilmen arguing each other after they leave then that kind of goes away but that’s there somebody put that there just the old folks and all that
Iktomi's Story of Bad Medicine (in Dakota) with Demus Mcdonald NDNAEU 2
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NDNAEU document credits: Demus McDonald — Spirit Lake (Dakota).
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