Interview · North Dakota · Catherine Howard · NDNAEU 1
Themes: Land & stewardship, Education & learning, Spirituality & ceremony, Arts & expression
Learn About questions
What is the circle of life?
What things are part of the circle of life?
What does it mean to present myself in a modest way?
Learn From questions
What does it mean to be connected to water and rocks and other things in nature? How have I experienced that connection?
In what ways have I experienced being brought up in a sacred way? In what ways has the sense of sacredness been lacking in my life?
Have I ever felt “lost” from not living life in a sacred and connected way?
How do I find my way back if I do become “lost?”
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Watch this interview on YouTubeThe rock everything is there is the truth because when we grew up the Dakota Boys when you grew up and that’s one thing I did with my students too I said I gave them each a rock i blessed the rocks at the sundance or so and then I bring the rocks back and I give it to the students each one of them Avva Iraq if you want to gossip about somebody say something bad about somebody I said you use that rock so you won’t hurt anybody’s feelings so they used a rock and to use you know and Institute we Dakota people we believe it in water we believed in rock we believed in that the dirt you know and we were brought up so sacredly when we grew up that even you know like one mom and a mousy don’t we show your body to anybody isn’t that boy oh boy house look at my momma Dee seem like you know why did she catch cold sometimes so she’ll have a cold so she can talk you know but these are the things that she talks about is the rock the water Institute you know we have to live that life if we don’t live that life we’re lost so the rock and the water the sacred a circle the circle of life is the most important way that we have to support ourselves so if you don’t do that or nobody
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