Interview · North Dakota · Aileen Little Ghost
Themes: Food & plants, Arts & expression, Humor & play
New transcript-based questions created with AI assistance using Scott Simpson’s Learn About and Learn From guide.
Learn About questions
1. What skills does Aileen Little Ghost describe practicing in daily life?
2. How does she connect making things with prayer and gratitude?
3. What does she say about thanking the buffalo and using all of its parts?
Learn From questions
1. What ordinary task could become a practice of gratitude for me?
2. How aware am I of the beings and labor that provide what I use?
3. What could I change to use a resource more fully and waste less?
Transcripts
06 Aileen Little Ghost: Everything You Do is Praying
Watch this interview on YouTubeYes and I know a lot of women jokes too mm-hmm no not when the man is present I can’t okay and then I know 12 women songs and in us they’re not son that song there are appropriate songs women’s songs we need is it probably time to sing them mm-hmm then I make teepees and I make I can’t and I can hide and make moccasins practice these things every day in your life then you shouldn’t have no problem because you’re praying when you put something together animal hide together you say thank you thank you for good biting you’re right when you can’t kill the Buffalo we have put tobacco out and thank him thank him for giving his life and we knew we used all the parts of the Buffalo you know what throw it throwing that thing away
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