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Posted on Sunday, June 23 @ 16:20:30 CDT

KEYWORDS: Sinte Gleska University teepee building Tipi Making Project cultural workshop tipi making Lakota Studies Tee Pee Southern Cheyene sinte gleska college Rosebud Reservation Lakota Women's Guild Lakota society Lakota art tipi poles buffalo hides proper ceremonies ceremonial protocol

SOURCE: Saff Writer, Rapid City Journal

ROSEBUD -- The Lakota Studies staff at Sinte Gleska University has been reviving a lost art as they host a Tipi Making Project on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

A news release from Sinte Gleska said that traditionally, the art of tipi making was practiced by a Lakota "Women's Guild" made up of the most skilled craftswomen in Lakota society. The art was lost when the federal government confined tribal nations to reservations, limiting their access to buffalo hides and trees for tipi poles.

June 16-28, the Lakota Studies Department is offering a course in tipi making, bringing back old ceremonies associated with the art.

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The course is being offered through a grant from LBN Associates of Phoenix, which is providing 18 buffalo hides and financial support for filming the project. Up to 25 students will build a 12- to 18-foot tipi, complete with liners, seating, designs and proper ceremonies.

Peter Gibbs, adjunct instructor in the SGU Lakota Studies Department, said the course also will revive philosophies and ceremonial protocol involved in building a tipi.

Gibbs has researched tipi making for 30 years, first from his home in England and for the past nine years or so on the Rosebud Reservation. He pointed out that for the Lakota, tipis were a birthplace, living place, classroom, place of prayer, place of death and sometimes even a place of burial.

"It needs to be put back in place," he said. "If we're talking about the preservation of language and culture, this is the starting place for everything. Children were born, learned their language and culture, and grew up inside a tipi. Where else can we best teach these things, but in the original classroom?"

Gibbs said few, if any, tipi makers in the United States practice the ceremonies that went with building a tipi. He said the ceremonies have been carefully reconstructed with help from Lakota and Southern Cheyenne people.

Albert White Hat, Lakota studies instructor and author of a textbook on Lakota language, is helping to teach the basics of tipi-making in the course, which is being held on his land west of St. Francis.

"It's my hope and dream that building a tipi with the hides and using the ceremonies will encourage Lakota women to revive their Women's Guilds," Gibbs said. "That is the real purpose of this project, to return some power to women."

For more information, call Gibbs at 856-4463.

SOURCE:

Rapid City Journal
A comprehensive South Dakota newspaper which gives good coverage of American Indian interests.