A Lakota Perspective: Sharing our Culture Mary Mousseau, RN Chaleen Brewer, BS Nutrition Winona Richards, Cultural Contributor Special Song of Encouragement: Doug Patton Jr.  Staff will become familiar with some Lakota language, customs, & culture  Staff will gain an awareness on some traditional Lakota way of thought  Staff will be able to list some foods that are important in the Lakota culture  Staff will be able to consider how the Lakota view HEALTH then, and now.

Objectives What do you expect today?  VALUES: the base value system differs from the non-Indian value system.  One of the mistakes that many non- Indians make is to assume that all Native Americans -Practice N.A. Traditional Spirituality -Know the Native language -Know and follow all Native beliefs and practices

Values  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ybW NatdJTc  Topa “4”

Significance of 4 to the Lakota  Stand up  Find out your place from oldest to youngest  Sit oldest to youngest  Look around  Where is your place in the circle?

ACTIVITY 1: Where is your place in the circle?  Oglala Sioux; Oglala Lakota  Oglala (Scatter Their Own)  Pine Ridge Reservation; “Wazi Ahanhan”  7 bands of the Lakota  http://www.sdtribalrelations.com/

History and Today http://pineridgechamber.com/cc/  Gender Gifts at birth  Blankets  Wakes  Ceremonies: Sundance, Inipi, Hunkapi (making of relatives), Hanbleceya(seeking a vision),Naming, Ishnati(girls entering womanhood.)  Prayers/Songs  Wacipi (pow-wow)  Wopila (give-away)

Some Lakota customs  Tipi (Ti: to dwell Pi: Many)  Medicine Wheel (4 quadrants)  Feathers (man feather, woman plume)  Canupa (pipe)  Morning Star, Milky Way (Star Knowledge)  Sacred sites  Traditional Dress  Jewelry  Tobacco  Aziliya (smudge)

Lakota Culture  We can request our placenta so we can bury it ourselves.  Save umbilical cord (see visuals. Girl/Boy)  Birthing views  Breastfeeding  How parents raise children using tradition and extended family  Kinship

Maternal Health  Hihanni Was’te, Winona, Emaciyape.  Hee-HAH-nee , Wash’DEH Winona, Eh-MAH-chee-yah-pee” “Good Morning, My name is Winona.”  Toksa! “Doke-sha!” “See you!”  Ohan! “OH-Hahn” (in agreement, acknowledge)

Activity 2: Lets speak Lakota!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdv8 vf69MNc&list=PLyOE96JnzS4HmYGfW0d6 1xina089TyRjm&index=4

Wacipi  Bapa: Dried meat  Wasna: pounded dried meat, dried berries and fat or bone marrow  Wojapi: Berry Sauce (buffalo berries, plums, chokecherries, currants)  Canpa: Dried berries  Wastunkala: Dried corn  Buffalo Tongue  Kidney (raw or cooked)  Taniga (Gut or Tripe Soup)  Timpsila (Wild turnip)  Wild Rice (traded with Chippewa & Ojibwa)  SAGE or WILD MINT: Pejuta Hota & Ceyaka Traditional Foods

 https://www.facebook.com/susan.lariviere .39/videos/714315012031783/

Bapa: dried meat Timpsila: dried wild turnip  Today there is much disconnect in culture as others  Feast or Famine  Treat children with food  Feeding large households  Low income, no transportation  Eat to their environment  Using traditional teachings to bring back pride & skill

View of Health  We pray for WICOZANI  Ourselves, our health, the environment, our families, for the good of the people  “So that we may continue the Lakota way of life.”  Healthy long life. Good health.

Wicozani- “Overall Health” Song of Encouragement