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The 28th Annual Plains Indian Seminar will address the theme, "Enduring Expressions: Music and Dance of the Great Plains," September 30-October 3, 2004. For the people of the Great Plains, music and dance are profound cultural and artistic expressions of tribal histories, experiences, traditions, and beliefs. Today, in reservation communities or in cities, in small family gatherings or in public arenas, traditional tribal songs and dances endure and articulate an ongoing contemporary significance. Through the living traditions of music and dance, Native people of the Plains also have defined and communicated new experiences and influences in a changing world in innovative and creative manifestations.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Opening Concert, Thursday, September 30, 7:00 pm
Jared Stewart, award-winning musician from Crow Agency, Montana, is the winner of the 2002 Entertainment International Montana Talent Search. His song, “Reflections,” from his recent CD release, Indian Summer, was named the Best Song of 2003 in The Outpost’s Tuney Awards. His other awards include Best Guitar Player and Best Male Vocalist. The Jared Stewart Band was also named Best Blues Act. The concert is included in the seminar registration fee.
Seminar Sessions:
“Spirit of Song”
Earlwin B. Bullhead
Lakota Language Teacher
Bonesteel/Fairfax School District
Bonesteel, South Dakota
“The Power of Dance: Bringing Dance and Music into the Museum”
Beth Carter
Ethnology Curator, Glenbow Museum
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
and
Sandra Crazy Bull
First Nations School Programmer
Glenbow Museum
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
“‘Enormous Crowds Attracted by the War Dances’: Craterville Park, The American Indian Exposition, and the Beginnings of Southern Plains Powwow Culture”
Clyde Ellis, Ph.D.
Associate professor of history
Elon University
Elon, North Carolina
“The Songs of Cheyenne Women”
Virginia Giglio, Ph.D.
President, Global Thinking, Inc.
Kingfisher, Oklahoma
“Dancing Painters – Painting Dancers: A Visual History of Kiowa Dance”
Michael P. Jordan
University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma
“Kiowa Hymns: Song, Language, and Meaning”
Ralph Kotay
Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma
Apache, Oklahoma
and
Luke Eric Lassiter, Ph.D.
Associate professor
Department of Anthropology
Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana
“Music of the Plains Cree: The Evolution of the Powwow Song”
Walter Carl Lightning, Sr.
Education consultant and interim superintendent of schools
Samson School Authority
Samson Cree Nation Reserve
Maskwachees, Alberta, Canada
“Crow Fair”
Barney Old Coyote
Crow Agency, Montana
“The Nez Perce Music Archive: 107 Years of Recorded Songs and Stories”
Loran Olsen, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Music and Native American Studies
Washington State University
Port Angeles, Washington
“Native Women’s Dance Regalia: Symbols and Sacred Images”
Marilyn Russell, Ph.D.
Director of Library Programs
Institute of American Indian Arts
Santa Fe, New Mexico
“The Native American Flute Speaks to the New Age”
EdwardWapp
Indigenous Studies Chairman
Institute of American Indian Arts
Santa Fe, New Mexico
“Our Songs Continue: Teaching Traditional Arikara and Songs”
Loren Yellow Bird, Sr.
Park Ranger-Interpreter
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
Williston, North Dakota
and
Loren Yellow Bird, Jr.
Patrick Yellow Bird
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