Introduction with Jerome Dancing Bull

Well first of all mine my name is my Christian name is Jerome dancing bull that’s my Christian name when I get out the name is Amadeus it’ll be two chiefs and my young man’s name was uh MIT is off that’s a hoop you know but I have one more but I passed that on to somebody else but those are the names that were given to me I had a young name and an old name so I go by the older name right now and when I there was uh as far as my family goes there’s ten it was five boys and five girls you know I came like Charlie said I came when the service boys first you know like my dad just they all got out of there servicing and now they were having hard times you know they got addicted to liquor they were you know and that’s why I grew up that when I was small I remember all the men that would came come back from the service and they would drink you know that’s all they knew you know but I was at that I was on that I seen that you know but eventually yeah they quit and they grew up you know but those of those the time there were kids my age would stick together because there her dad was either alone drunk or something you know but he but yet he was a war hero and we respected him but that’s why I went through that my mother took care of us huh I think my mother never touched alcohol you know and kept us together but being that said my dad was a good man you know I understood what do you want to you know any don’t hear eighth graders case and he couldn’t really talk word or English you know but yet he did get things done you know so I was at that age for that was in the fifties and early sixties you know but yeah we still hung onto our gods you know our medicines which brought us for and I’m glad that we did there was a time in the mornings when my mother would set us all down and explain to us who you’re related to you’re related to so-and-so you’re related to him you can’t teach this guy but she could teach this person but we never questioned her if she said I was related to so-and-so I never said how she just told me I was and that was good enough for me but nowadays kids if you go and tell them that you’re related to somebody and they’re gonna see how and then all I can say is my mother told me and I never questioned their stuff like that you know and like Charlie said I grew up in the societies I when I’m from a place called shell Creek and we’re hosts go hey Todd is you know in fact I think we’re the last straw no of the garages tradition you know we kept it going we still ever try to have traditions we still have our societies our practices um I’m a I’m in three six three societies right now I grew up in one the Fox Society I know that’s a young man’s society and then I got adopted into another society called the antelope society Charlie miner touch base on that but I’m I was a holder of two positions in that society so there they have two positions in our society is kind of rare but I did and I could only name one more person that had that but he’s long gone but who’s you know I often thought about you know something to hold two positions in that society mm-hmm and anymore I’m a crier for a another woman society called Baja we care that’s their enemy when I’m required for them if they want to have a meeting if you want to get a hold of their members they come and see me and then I tell them when and where when they meet what to bring like that’s what he was one of my positions that’s so I say anyway one in society so is your tribal affiliation then Hadassah you know it’s Amanda at one time people growing up in my household there was three languages English Mandan and Hadassah that was all spoken on in my house and that Mandan language I never I took that language for granted I never thought that people would lose that language I’d give anything there’s somebody talk man that fluently because in my household they did but I didn’t my mother my grandmother would talk Mandan to my mother but she wouldn’t talk Mandan to us he would talk it ASSA and she would talk manda and to my mother and my mother would answer her back in hit aza you know so yeah two different languages talking back forth understanding each other you know I don’t know my grandmother talked all three languages you know we never thought about that yeah what she did but I don’t know why it my grandma never talked man then throws she taught us the dances you know of the things that they did Mandan and we would I remember her singing songs you know going like this with her hands and we were like I don’t know four or five and we would uh you guys can quote me on this we would dance like bears you know we would put our hands up and dance you know you don’t see you know no more you know but maybe it’s died but that’s where they used to make us do and I still remember those days you know yep but uh to the stare I very I know the man that language is thriving but I’ve never heard it like I used to hear that might my aunt she still talks man then what she talks about is this guy’s crop called never I’ll probably never learn that language yes yeah