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A quarry in Minnesota has been a reliable source for the stone used in ceremonial pipes for dozens of tribes throughout the central U.S. and Canada. Other tribes elsewhere found their own local sources for making pipes. We’ll talk about the importance of pipes and the methods for making them passed down through the centuries.
GUESTS
Robert Sweeney (Ponca Tribe of Nebraska), Northern Ponca spiritual leader
Bud Johnston (Anishinaabe), president of the Keepers of the Sacred Tradition of Pipemakers
Gabrielle Drapeau (Yankton Sioux Tribe), cultural resource specialist and park ranger at Pipestone National Monument
Travis Erickson (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate), pipemaker and Pipestone Indian Shrine Association board member
Chief Looking Horse (Lakota/Dakota/Nakota), 19th Generation Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe
Break 1 Music: Smoke dance remix (song) Chief Rock (artist)
Break 2 Music: Chase the Child (song) Raye Zaragoza (artist) Fight for You (album)
To all who honor the ancestors and the ceremony they brought, we bow in recognition. Peace and Dignity Journey runner.
Hau Mitakuye Oyasin !!! I am more than Proud To greet my Lakota oyate. !!! I can only thank the Creator of all things , for having me be a Sicangu Lakota, , and my Mother for having bore me. as a Lakota..