Interview · North Dakota · Angeline Fourth Iron Road · NDNAEU 7
Themes: Kinship & family, Storytelling & oral tradition, Education & learning, Spirituality & ceremony, Arts & expression, Intergenerational learning
Learn About questions
Why do some people get up early to sing and pray?
What are some songs that are sung to the Creator in the morning?
What is the morning star?
Why is prayer repeated again at night?
Why are stories told at night?
Learn From questions
What do I remember about early mornings and late evenings in my home?
Were there rituals that were important to my family?
How do I feel about mornings and time in the mornings before the day begins?
How do I feel about the late evenings and time in the evenings before the day ends?
Transcripts
Angeline Fourth Iron Road- Learning to Pray from Grandpa, NDNAEU 7
Watch this interview on YouTubeMy brother and my and myself were raised by our grandparents Andrea Ireland and um things he taught us I still keep them and trying to teach my niches and my nephews the way of life the Indian life but uh I lost my brothers at least me and my sister Henry at a fourth star if he lived in Williston but uh the things that we were taught being in this as I watched today what uh that Mr Hale is doing my grandfather used to do those as I watched and then there’s another thing that he used to Grand Grandpa Sunday we call him he used to get up early in the morning about three or four o’clock and then he sings he has a little round drum and then the drumstick he sings to the Creator who prays and then it seemed like every the Morning Star ampa always calls it he sings through that and then that night again he does the same thing when we all go to bed and storytelling if we behave we hear a story if not well we don’t
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NDNAEU document credits: Angeline Fourth Iron Road — Standing Rock (Lakota).
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