CSC Pow Wow featuring storytellers
In addition to traditional Lakota singing and dancing, the sixth annual Chadron State College Pow Wow will feature presentations by a pair of American Indian storytellers Saturday, Nov. 17. The speakers are Phyllis Stone, an elder of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, and Jerome Kills Small of Porcupine, S.D.
Kills Small and Stone will speak at 2 p.m., following the first of two “grand entries” at 1 p.m. At 5 p.m. a free dinner of buffalo stew, fry bread and wojape, a classic American Indian dessert, will be served. The second grand entry will follow dinner at about 6 p.m., and the event is expected to last late into the evening. Among the events is a competition for the titles of princess and junior princess.
Kills Small teaches American Indian topics at the University of South Dakota, where he earned a master’s degree in 1997. He specializes in tales about “tricksters” and old legends for children, and analyzes the American Indian storytelling tradition for adult audiences. His work has been published in print and video numerous times. He also sings with the Oyate Singers of Vermillion, S.D., and performs in the Great Plains Chautauqua.
Stone, who performs as a sun dancer in addition to her role as elder, tells about the life of the Rosebud Sioux and the uses and traditions of handmade items from past and present American Indian cultures. She has served on the Nebraska Indian Commission and was named Outstanding Indian Woman in Nebraska in 1985.
This year, the pow wow is being organized in conjunction with the fifth anniversary celebration of CSC’s Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center.
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