Encounter Center presents Lakota storyteller
Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
SIOUX CITY -- The Betty Strong Encounter Center on the Missouri Riverfront will present "Lakota Storytelling for Children of All Ages" with Jerome Kills Small at 1 p.m. Sunday in the Stanley Evans Auditorium. Admission will be free.
SIOUX CITY -- The Betty Strong Encounter Center on the Missouri Riverfront will present "Lakota Storytelling for Children of All Ages" with Jerome Kills Small at 1 p.m. Sunday in the Stanley Evans Auditorium. Admission will be free.
The program will feature a number of stories such as: "The 1949 Blizzard on the Prairie, from a Child's Memory," "Stories of the Animals around Jerome's House" and "The Story of the Little Ducks and Iktomi, the Trickster."
The artist also will perform selections from his latest CD, "Inikagapi: Celebration of Life."
Kills Small translates, explains and sings Lakota ceremonial, sweat lodge, powwow, rabbit, round dance and vision quest songs. He also performs with the Oyate Singers of Vermillion, S.D., and Iron Bull Singers of Winnebago, Neb.
An Oglala Lakota, Kills Small grew up in Porcupine, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Reservation. He has a master's degree in selected studies from University of South Dakota and teaches Lakota and Dakota languages, American Indian thought, Siouan tribal culture, Lakota history, and various seminars, including "Black Elk" at USD.
SIOUX CITY -- The Betty Strong Encounter Center on the Missouri Riverfront will present "Lakota Storytelling for Children of All Ages" with Jerome Kills Small at 1 p.m. Sunday in the Stanley Evans Auditorium. Admission will be free.
The program will feature a number of stories such as: "The 1949 Blizzard on the Prairie, from a Child's Memory," "Stories of the Animals around Jerome's House" and "The Story of the Little Ducks and Iktomi, the Trickster."
The artist also will perform selections from his latest CD, "Inikagapi: Celebration of Life."
Kills Small translates, explains and sings Lakota ceremonial, sweat lodge, powwow, rabbit, round dance and vision quest songs. He also performs with the Oyate Singers of Vermillion, S.D., and Iron Bull Singers of Winnebago, Neb.
An Oglala Lakota, Kills Small grew up in Porcupine, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Reservation. He has a master's degree in selected studies from University of South Dakota and teaches Lakota and Dakota languages, American Indian thought, Siouan tribal culture, Lakota history, and various seminars, including "Black Elk" at USD.
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