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Zona Loans Arrow (Yanktonnai)Everybody roamed this country. It was theirs. Tunkasina, Wakan Tanka created us and put us on this Turtle Island to take care of this Earth, so that it'll replenish and we would benefit. They were to follow the herds of buffalo, deer, antelope or whatever. They were meat eating people and then herbs, too. They used the herbs as medicine ...more |
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Edwin Benson (Mandan)My grandfather was a full blood Mandan. My grandmother who died in earlier years, that I didn't know, was a Hidatsa lady. At that time they called them Gros Ventres. In later years they called them Hidatsa. She only spoke that language. Alone my grandfather spoke the Mandan language. Of course in later in years he was able to speak both languages ...more |
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Calvin GrinnellI'm Calvin Grinnell, a member of the Three Affiliated Tribes, the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation. I'm a member of all three tribes. I've all three tribes in my blood, as well as a little French, of course. My Indian name is Running Elk. I'm a descendant of the Hidatsa chief, Four Bears, who signed the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 delineating the boundaries of our homelands...more |
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LaDonna Brave Bull AllardMy name is Ladonna Brave Bull Allard. I'm from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. I live in Fort Yates North Dakota. I'm a mixed blood, so I have to tell you about both. The from the Jamestown Valley, and so we lived in the Jamestown Valley before the White Man came. And then on the other side, the Lakota, and the Blackfeet, they lived more west. They didn't live on the river here...more |
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Keith BearI'm Keith Bear, I live on Ft. Berthold Reservation I kind of started life as a Sioux boy and ended up being raised bi-culturally, Sioux Mandan with my mother and my relatives here, emphasizing the Mandan/Hidatsa part and then in first grade, shortly before first grade I was place in my first foster home and in 12 years of school I lived in fourteen non-Indian homes...more |
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Leo LockwoodMy name is Leo Lockwood. I'v e been very involved in music. I think music has been my, one of my best strengths and it's been one of my resources that I've used to kind of keep me in track as far as where I'm at today. ...more |
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Rodney Howling WolfMy name is Rodney Howling Wolf. I'm 64 years old. I'm from White Shield, North Dakota. I'm an Arikara. My mother was Mabel Bear Howling Wolf. My father was Dan Howling Wolf. My mother's father was the Arikara chief. His name was Floyd Sitting Bear Floyd's father was Sitting Bear...more |
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Virgil ChaseMy name is Virgil Chase, Sr. My father was Frank Chase. He was a Mandan Hidatsa Sioux. His father was named Foolish. He was killed with, there was five Arikara, Bear Turning, Bear Going In Woods, he was wounded in the service as a U.S. scout. Little Crow with Standing Bear and Black Shirt...more |
Yvonne FoxMy name is Yvonne Fox. My Indian name is White Buffalo Woman. It's Danaha Daga or it's Danaga, Dana Hadaga. My great grandfather was Little Sioux who was a scout with Custer during the battle of Little Big Horn and did have a medal from that time...more |
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Loren Yellow BirdMy name is Loren Yellow Bird. I'm a member of the Arikara tribe. I work for the National Park Service. If you'd say that in the Arikara language or Sahnish is what we say, I'd say...more |
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