OSEU Four: Interview with Stephanie Charging Eagle

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Interview · South Dakota · Stephanie Charging Eagle · OSEU 4

Themes: Kinship & family, Spirituality & ceremony, Values & generosity, Listening & observation

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What is the hunka ceremony? When and how do people decide to make a hunka relative? What does it mean to make a commitment? What does it mean when something is “sacred”? What does it mean when something is “spiritual”?

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What value is there in making “family” of people other than my blood relatives? What happens when people are committed ONLY to their own “blood” relatives? What people in my life might be “hunka relatives” in some way? What might it mean in my life to have a “sacred” or “spiritual” relationship with someone? Am I a person who makes and keeps commitments?

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Hunka Relatives - Stephanie Charging Eagle - OSEU #4

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You are in some way related to somebody, and that comes first before anything else. And by blood we are related. We do what we need to do with each other. You take care of each other, but when you take on a relative willingly and by choice, that relationship is even more sacred. It's even more of a commitment because now you're by choice, or by some circumstance, bringing a relative in to your [Lakota Word]. It was put to me, that if you make a relative through the Hunka ceremony, which is a ceremony which is very spiritual also, but when the commitment, I was told by my my father and my mother, is that if you bring in somebody into your family and make them a relative. If one is to get sick, if your sister over here, your blood sister is sick, and then the relative who may be a sister also is sick over here, who would you have to take care of first? And with the Hunka relationship, you go to the sister you brought into the family, because the sister here has your family there taking care of her. So your first commitment, your commitment is to the sister over there, to the relative who you brought in to take care of them, because now they become more. That relationship is one that is very spiritual, but also one of commitment and and vice versa.

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Learn ABOUT Learn FROM (deep listening, information) (deep sharing, transformation) 1. What is the hunka ceremony? 1. What value is there in making “family” 2. When and how do people decide to of people other than my blood make a hunka relative? relatives? 3. What does it mean to make a 2. What happens when people are commitment? committed ONLY to their own “blood” 4. What does it mean when something is relatives? “sacred”? 3. What people in my life might be “hunka 5. What does it mean when something is relatives” in some way? “spiritual”? 4. What might it mean in my life to have a “sacred” or “spiritual” relationship with someone? 5. Amla person who makes and keeps commitments? OSEU 4: INTERVIEW WITH STEPHANIE CHARGING EAGLE WoLakota Project From the current WoLakota source page: Hunka Relatives Stephanie Charging Eagle Transcript (deep listening, information) (deep listening, information)

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Hunka Relatives - Stephanie Charging Eagle - OSEU #4 You are in some way related to somebody, and that comes first before anything else. And by blood we are related. We do what we need to do with each other. You take care of each other, but when you take on a relative willingly and by choice, that relationship is even more sacred. It's even more of a commitment because now you're by choice, or by some circumstance, bringing a relative in to your [Lakota Word]. It was put to me, that if you make a relative through the Hunka ceremony, which is a ceremony which is very spiritual also, but when the commitment, I was told by my my father and my mother, is that if you bring in somebody into your family and make them a relative. If one is to get sick, if your sister over here, your blood sister is sick, and then the relative who may be a sister also is sick over here, who would you have to take care of first? And with the Hunka relationship, you go to the sister you brought into the family, because the sister here has your family there taking care of her. So your first commitment, your commitment is to the sister over there, to the relative who you brought in to take care of them, because now they become more. That relationship is one that is very spiritual, but also one of commitment and and vice versa.