Interview · South Dakota · Duane Hollow Horn Bear
Themes: Land & stewardship, Language & revitalization, Kinship & family, Storytelling & oral tradition, Education & learning, Healing & resilience, Spirituality & ceremony, Values & generosity, Culture & continuity, Listening & observation, Children & young people
New transcript-based questions created with AI assistance using Scott Simpson’s Learn About and Learn From guide.
Learn About questions
1. What significant historical losses does Duane Hollow Horn Bear ask learners to recognize?
2. How does he describe students' different responses to painful history?
3. How does he connect grieving with finding a gift and contributing to the world?
Learn From questions
1. How can I make room for another person's pace when learning about painful history?
2. What helps me acknowledge loss without losing sight of hope or responsibility?
3. What gift could I strengthen and use to support my family or community?
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A Proper Grieving - Duane Hollow Horn Bear – Storytelling
Watch this interview on YouTubeStories such as this touch my people in many, many different ways. I have been teaching for 25 years. I had young students come to me and ask me, Mr. Hollow Horn Bear, what you are sharing with us, is this the truth? I said, yes it is. Mr. Hollow Horn Bear, I'm angry. I can't take this. I can't just sit here and listen to this. I'm going to drop this class. Maybe I'll come back next semester. It has happened. Students come back one semester, maybe the next semester, maybe three times.
I tell my people, my students, all of us, all of us, native and non-native, we must all process through a grieving cycle, a proper grieving cycle, to look back in our history and identify those very significant losses. Culture, traditions, children, spirituality, language, and the big one, land. And we must begin to process these in a proper way. the proper way, we find hope within ourselves. We find ourselves in the meaning of life.
We find spirituality, our religion, and going back, finding ourselves, finding our gift, working on that gift to make it better, stronger, to use that gift to help myself, my family, my people, this world, to give something back positively. But it's difficult. It's hard. When we know our history, that pains us. But we need to know it from our own perspective, not just from the glorifying moments of Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull. But turn the coin over.
Turn it over and see about some of the very hurtful decisions that we have also made pertaining to our people.
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A Proper Grieving
A Proper Grieving - Duane Hollow Horn Bear -
Storytelling
Stories such as this touch my people in many, many different ways. I have been
teaching for 25 years. I had young students come to me and ask me, Mr. Hollow Horn
Bear, what you are sharing with us, is this the truth? I said, yes it is. Mr. Hollow Horn
Bear, I'm angry. I can't take this. I can't just sit here and listen to this. I'm going to drop
this class. Maybe I'll come back next semester. It has happened. Students come back
one semester, maybe the next semester, maybe three times.
I tell my people, my students, all of us, all of us, native and non-native, we must all
process through a grieving cycle, a proper grieving cycle, to look back in our history and
identify those very significant losses. Culture, traditions, children, spirituality, language,
and the big one, land. And we must begin to process these in a proper way. the proper
way, we find hope within ourselves. We find ourselves in the meaning of life.
We find spirituality, our religion, and going back, finding ourselves, finding our gift,
working on that gift to make it better, stronger, to use that gift to help myself, my family,
my people, this world, to give something back positively. But it's difficult. It's hard. When
we know our history, that pains us. But we need to know it from our own perspective,
not just from the glorifying moments of Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull. But turn the coin over.
Turn it over and see about some of the very hurtful decisions that we have also made
pertaining to our people.