Turtle Island Storytellers: Ohio/Indiana

Dark Rain Thom

Dark Rain Thom (Shawnee)

My people were from Southern Ohio for the last several hundred years. I can remember being 8 or 9 years old and walking on the property that we now own and my father was explaining to me this little trail that we were following is not just an animal trail or a hunters trail, but it's part of the old warriors path that has been here, we know, for over 400 years and it has always been in family hands. . ..more

   
Boye Ladd

Boye Ladd

My name is Boye Ladd. I come from the Ho Chunk nation, originally from Wisconsin, and I've traveled quite a bit throughout the world as a professional dancer. I started dancing when I was about four years old and I've been competing since traveling all over the country. Was quite instrumental in development of a lot of the earlier powwows back in the '60s. I started actually dancing in 1952 and I've seen the evolution of dance, how it's progressed to what we see today ....more

   
   
   



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