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The Last Lakota Code Talker
Reprinted from the May-June 2007 issue of the South Dakota Magazine.
by Bernie Hunhoff
Clarence Wolf Guts is not the sort of hero who capitalizes on his exploits; he hasn't written any books or run for office, and you can count his speaking appearances on one hand. He lives almost as simply today as when he was a boy on the Rosebud Reservation in the 1920s.
He accumulated very little property in 83 complicated years. Most of his friends and his family are dead. He quit drinking at age 81, and found that sobriety improves his ability to remember the good and the bad of a sometimes-messy life.
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National Native American Heritage Month
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The White House
For millennia before Europeans settled in North America, the indigenous peoples of this continent flourished with vibrant cultures and were the original stewards of the land. From generation to generation, they handed down invaluable cultural knowledge and rich traditions, which continue to thrive in Native American communities across our country today.
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Friends Mourn Red Cloud
(10/13/2010) Red Wing Republican Eagle , Red Wing, Minn.
by Mike Longaecker
Red Wing, Minn. – When you heard American Indian singing and drumming around the Prairie Island Indian Community in recent years, you could bet Winfred Red Cloud was near.
When there were spiritual blessings to be made around town, he was the man. And when young people or outsiders had questions about traditional native culture, they often turned to Red Cloud.
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Fountain, Statue Dedication Bridges Cultures
(09/19/2010) Waabasha Herald, Wabasha, Minn.
by Michael Smith
Wabasha, Minn. – “A Bridging of Cultures” took place on the Wabasha riverfront Saturday morning, and it was merely the latest in a long line of historic events that have renewed the city and restored a riverfront along America’s artery.
The Fountain and Statue of Chief Wapahasha II that now grace the riverfront at the foot of Pembroke Avenue were dedicated Saturday morning by John and Marcia Bouquet, who gifted this work to the City of Wabasha in honor and memory of their parents. John’s parents, Dr. B. J. and Dorothy Bouquet, grew up here and loved this city, while Marcia’s parents, Gus and Vivian Marmesh, also were known to love Wabasha and spent a lot of time here.
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Dakota Winyan (Women)
Minnesota Native Americans have a future of 2sa healing
by Jorrie Hansen
Native Americans inhabited Minesota Millenniums before America was "discovered" and Europeans settled here. For a couple of hundred of years, Minnesota Sioux traded furs from the waters of Nothern Minnesota along the St. Croix River sown the Mississippi river Valley to the Western Prairies of the State. more...
Homecoming To Explore Roles Of American Indian Women
(02/01/2009) By Cynthya Porter, Winona Post
In anticipation of the upcoming Dakotah Homecoming during which several women will be recognized, this is the first in a series exploring the roles American Indian women have played both in their cultures and that of the white settlers.There is perhaps no one more enamored with the legend of Princess Wenonah, said to be Winona’s namesake, than the town itself, with her image immortalized in bronze, advertising pieces and our imaginations for at least a century. more...
Great Dakota Gathering Seeks To Unite Native, Current Winona Residents
(06/02/2007) By Amber Dulek, Winona Daily News
Most family reunions aren’t open to the public.
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But Ed Lohnes’s is.
The son of Dakota and Ojibwe parents, Lohnes said the fourth annual Great Dakota Gathering this weekend is about continuing to share American Indian culture and history with Winona residents.
“It’s not just for the Dakota people, it’s for everybody that attends,” Lohnes said. “We call it a gathering and a homecoming rather than a pow-wow, because it’s more about education.”
The Mdewakanton band of Dakota (Sioux) Indians lived below Winona’s bluffs on Wapasha’s Prairie for generations before European settlers arrived in the 1850s. After more than a century of war, exile, broken treaties and racism, their descendents were spread out onto about a dozen remaining reservations in Minnesota, Nebraska and the Dakotas.
As a kid in Blaine, Minn., Lohnes didn’t realize things were different for him.
American Indian leaders At Great Dakota Gathering Tell Of Struggles
(06/03/2007) By Janelle McDonald, Winona Daily News
Winona, Minn. - Growing up on the Santee Indian Reservation in northeastern Nebraska, Roger Trudell remembers days of husking corn with his grandfather as a young boy and working for area farmers as a teenager.
“Back in them days, the farmers didn’t have the equipment they have now,” said Trudell, the reservation tribal chairman.
Trudell, 59, has lived his life on the reservation, with the exception of three years in the Army and two in Omaha, Neb. He was in Winona on Saturday for the Dakota Gathering, an annual event for Dakota Indians from across the Midwest to reunite on their ancestral land.
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