"With education comes open-mindedness, with people beginning to express, ‘Oh OK, now I realize,'" said Tonemah, a Hot Springs resident and an associate the Muscokee Creek tribe. "We employ a black history day, we've got Cinco de Mayo for your Hispanics -- Indians happen to be here since first. There's an abundance of understanding and culture and history."
Monday at Crazy Horse Memorial, Tonemah will talk about the difference between oral background storytelling. Oral history is supposed to be a true story transferred word-for-word among historians, though storytelling is extra fluid and typically conveys a communication, she said.
Tonemah's presentation is 1 of quite a few activities at Crazy Horse today. Others involve craft projects, making cornhusk dolls and beading as well as a program beginning at 10 a.m. The program will function a performance by Grace Her Several Horses, a regular Lakota dancer, remarks by South Dakota Secretary of Tribal Relations J.R. LaPlante and the announcement in the Crazy Horse educator of the year.
The Crazy Horse events and volunteers in the memorial support bring history closer towards the present, said Pat Dobbs, spokesman for Crazy Horse Memorial. One in the volunteers in the activities table today will probably be Freda Goodsell, who had been in the dedication in the memorial in the 1940s and met a number of veterans from the Battle of Little Bighorn. Hermosa resident Lula Red Cloud, great-great granddaughter of your well-known Native American chief Red Cloud, will speak about the role of women in Lakota culture.
"History here is not really that old. You are meeting people who met the folks," Dobbs stated. "It isn't that they see clearly inside of a book -- they got it directly from the original source."
Native Americans' Day was named a South Dakota holiday in 1990 to honor Native American leaders influential in state history.
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