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Shoshone-Bannock History in Idaho
PART I OF II: 2008's historic Idaho Democratic Convention, held in Boise, ID, June 12-14, invited Idaho Native American Tribal members from the Shoshone-Bannock/Fort Hall, Shoshone-Paiute/Duck Valley, Nez Perce, and Coeur D'Alene tribal communities to take an active part in the convention activities. On June 12th, the Idaho AFL-CIO hosted a Democratic picnic for convention goers. Mr. Ted Howard, Cultural Resource Director, Duck Valley, spoke to picnic participants about the Shoshone-Paiute-Bannock history in the Boise Valley area. 9:49 minutes.
Part II-Grand Entry, Flag Ceremony and Recessional
All convention tribal members participated in the grand entry at the beginning of the June 13th Idaho Democratic Convention gathering followed by a flag ceremony and presentation by Mr. Lee Juan Tyler, Council Member, Shoshone-Bannock/Fort Hall community. Fort Hall and Duck Valley singers and drummers played songs for the grand entry, flag ceremony and recessional.
9:59 minutes
Native American Prophecy
Narrated by the late Floyd RedCrow Westerman 6:36 minutes
7 Generations
Elder Orin Lyons talks about preparing for the next 7 generations. 8:43 minutes
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Lit->Words of Wisdom: What are the differences between a myth, legend, tale, and oral histories?
Posted on Saturday, July 28 @ 20:31:15 CDT (3477 reads)
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Folklorists have commonly attempted to distinguish between native american myths, legends, tales, and oral histories. Sometimes a fine line separarates the distinction. Here are the basic differences.
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Legend->Sioux: The White Buffalo Woman
Posted on Saturday, February 24 @ 10:39:04 CST (4377 reads)
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One summer so long ago that nobody knows how long, the OcetiShakowin, the seven sacred council fires of the Lakota Oyate, the nation, came together and camped. The sun shone all the time, but there was no game and the people were starving. Every day they sent scouts to look for game, but the scouts found nothing.
Among the bands assembled were the Itazipcho, the WithoutBows, who had their own camp circle under their chief, Standing Hollow Horn. Early one morning the chief sent two of his young men to hunt for game. They went on foot, because at that time the Sioux didn't yet have horses. They searched everywhere but could find nothing. Seeing a high hill, they decided to climb it in order to look over the whole country. Halfway up, they saw something coming toward them from far off, but the figure was floating instead of walking. From this they knew that the person was waken, holy.
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Legend->Blackfoot: Water Sprit's Gift of Horses
Posted on Monday, August 21 @ 08:42:13 CDT (5533 reads)
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A Blackfoot Legend
A legend about how the Blackfoot tribe aquired horses.
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The Buffalo Rock
Posted on Monday, August 21 @ 08:25:37 CDT (5125 reads)
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A Blackfoot Legend
The buffalo rock, as called by the Blackfeet Indians, was usually a fossil shell of some kind, picked up on the prairie. Whoever found one was considered fortunate, for it was thought to give a person great power over buffalo. The owner put the stone in his lodge, near the fire, and prayed over it. This story reveals not only the use of such a rock, but also a common method of hunting buffalo before the Indians had horses.
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Legend->Blackfoot: How a Piegan Warrior Caught the First Horses
Posted on Monday, August 21 @ 08:19:49 CDT (5573 reads)
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A Blackfoot Horse Legend
A long time ago a warrior of the Piegan Blackfoot dreamed about a lake far away where some large animals lived. A voice in the dream told him the animals were harmless, and that he could use them for dragging travois and carrying packs in the same way the Indians then used dogs. "Go to this lake," the dream voice told him, "and take a rope with you so that you can catch these animals."
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R&S->Visions/Dreams: Shape Shifting
Posted on Thursday, June 15 @ 11:56:32 CDT (7353 reads)
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Sands shifting, sifting, through time, it moves through my fingers it moves, through space, it sifts and changes. Never remaining the same. Shapeshifting.
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Legend->Cheyenne: The origin of death
Posted on Tuesday, May 09 @ 15:43:13 CDT (5869 reads)
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AUTHOR: Cheyenne Legend, Myth, Oral Story
When the world was created Death did not occur. The Earth became so overcrowded that eventually there wasn’t room for any more beings.
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Legend->Blackfoot: How Sky Dogs (the horse) were created
Posted on Tuesday, May 09 @ 15:26:44 CDT (5111 reads)
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AUTHOR: Blackfoot Legend, Oral Story, Myth
As told by He-Who-Loves-Horses
When the horses first appeared to the Blackfeet people, they thought the strange animals were dogs sent as a gift from the sky from Old Man, creator of all things.
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Legend->Pima: Pima Legend of the First People
Posted on Tuesday, May 09 @ 15:12:51 CDT (6570 reads)
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AUTHOR: Pima Legend, Myth, Oral Story
Pima legend of how the first man and first woman were made.
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Legend->Cherokee: How the Cherokee got Corn
Posted on Tuesday, May 09 @ 15:09:05 CDT (3888 reads)
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AUTHOR: Cherokee Legend, Myth, Oral Story
How Corn came to feed the Cherokee people and people all over the Earth.
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Legend->Sioux: Tunkasila, Grandfather Rock
Posted on Tuesday, May 09 @ 14:59:15 CDT (4116 reads)
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AUTHOR: Sioux Legend, Myth, Oral Story
This legend tells why we should respect rocks.
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Legend->Navajo: Dine (Navajo) Creation Story
Posted on Tuesday, May 09 @ 14:54:06 CDT (5591 reads)
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AUTHOR: Dine' or Navajo creation story, legend, myth, oral story
There was once a First World below the World as we know it. Everything was black and it had in it only six beings. They were First Man, the Son of Night and the Blue Sky over Sunset; First Woman, the Daughter of Day Break and the Yellow Sky of Sunset; Salt Woman; Fire God; Coyote and Begochiddy. Begochiddy had blue eyes and golden hair and was both man and woman.
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Legend->Iroquois: Onondaga Creation Story
Posted on Tuesday, May 09 @ 14:47:31 CDT (4480 reads)
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Onondaga Creation Story, Legend, Myth, Oral History
In the beginning of the earth there was no land, just water.
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Legend->Kalispel: Coyote Moon Myth
Posted on Tuesday, May 09 @ 14:41:17 CDT (3420 reads)
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AUTHOR: Kalispel Legend, Myth, Oral Story
How Coyote was the Moon, then lost that job.
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Legend->Potawatomi: The Adventures of Raccoon
Posted on Tuesday, December 27 @ 03:57:31 CST (3457 reads)
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Once Raccoon was walking along the bank of a stream looking for something to eat. He was very hungry, but he found nothing.
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