Day 6

On this day we had a guess speaker named Lauren Yellowbird. He was born in white shield on ft berth old reservation. His tribe has lived in the North Dakota area for about 750 years. His Indian name is medicine horse, giving to him when he graduated high school. This is very impotant to there culture.

He works at Fort union post as a park ranger. And he gets to tell people about his culutrue but doestn get very much time as he would like. His background, he is a descendant of Son of the Star. arikara chief. a very distinguished man. He is one man Lauren admires in all of history. Bear's teeth is on his fathers side, lauren studied culture and anthropology. bear's teeth was a very powerful medicine man. These are two main figures that he is tied to. the medicine lodge had a lot of things there, they were very spiritual people. He also is Part hidatsa, some people don't like to claim a certain heritage.

One thing they are famous for is in the 1800's little big horn battle. arikara was the main fighting scouting force for custer. sometimes arikara catch flak for helping custer. other tribes will come up to arikara and call them traitors two things remember growing up, mother corn and bloody knife. bloody knife was a scout. they had a lot of back and forth with the sioux. their village was attacked over 600 times over 6 years.

The things that they are trying to keep alive in there culuture is language, music, ceramonies, ediquitte repect visions of leaders.

When I was younger I always thought indians were cool because the had cool names. And when I was little my "Indian name" was blue bird. I think they are more intuned with nature. I wish people new more about them. I kind of want to learn how they dance looks and sounds like fun. But there is alot in this cultue I do not understand and I would like to learn more about it.