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A National Park Service ranger introduces the Our Way of Life dance troop and Black Whistle drum group during the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial celebration in Crow country. The program features multiple traditional Crow dance styles including jingle dress, grass dance, fancy shawl, and Crow style dancing, with performances by community dancers and singers. The ranger reflects on the traveling exhibition's mission to share tribal voices and stories along the historic trail.

Transcript

0:03 welcome everybody to the Ten of mini voices I let you know what's going on we're getting ready for the ourway of Life dance troop and of course we have the black whistle drum group here uh we have some dancers heading this way so we'll just give them a few moments but in that time I would like to welcome you of course again to core Discovery 2 to the Ten of mini voices this is a pretty special venue it's traveled all over the country we've been on the road since
0:28 2003 and everywhere we go we um not working again okay sorry here we go that's a lot better right thank you so once again I want to welcome you to the Ten of mini voices and uh our dancers are coming this way with the uh our way of life dance troop and of course the black whistle drum group here just want to let you know of course we've been on the road since 2003 and it's really an honor
0:52 to um have everybody in this venue everywhere we go we invite local folks to come in and tell their story tell their association with l and Clark tell their story about their tribe it really doesn't matter we just want to get people aware want to learn more and that's part of the beauty of the tenam many voices we hear everybody's voices in here and as a ranger that's been really eye openening I think uh the
1:14 Rangers on this project know a lot after seeing everything the other thing I'll let you know is that we are a unique thing in the National Park Service there are 390 national parks right now they are just about to add another one but we are the only one that travel we're the only one that moves um all the Rangers you see on this project live on the road fulltime that's what we do so when you
1:38 ask us where we're from it's a tough question to answer because we live in hotels and uh everybody's got a home state but truly we are out of omahan Nebraska Louis and Clark National Historic Trail there so it is a unique thing to be working this as well as experiencing all that happens along the trail with this here project I guess we got few coming up
2:01 here now it's a good sign but um we'll get we'll get a wonderful show they've they've done great great exhibitions for us this week and it's been really nice to be in Crow country I mean you hear how the crow are very friendly tribe yeah the crow are a very friendly tribe um we've gotten fed we've gotten welcomed we've enjoyed our time here very much so it's a good thing to be
2:24 here let's see if I can maybe Albert how are we doing they can't hear me okay just a few little things you can't you don't want to lose anything while you're dancing so we give everybody a chance to get everything secured that's very key we're good all right Darren I think we're
2:47 pretty good so I'm going to go ahead and give you a nice introduction to go ahead and uh kind of MC everything today for the our way of life dance troop like to welcome Darren old coyote he's going to be talking about everything you're going to be seeing today and of course want to welcome the black whistle drum group thank you guys for making the effort to come out here time and again we do appreciate it and um with that I think we want to go ahead and get started with
3:12 the our way of life dance troop so go ahead and welcome everybody with a nice round of applause all right uh I think we're about ready to get started so if we could have a song by the black Wizzle singers to bring our dancers in ready to
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6:23 [Music] there you have it
6:28 um let's get him a big round of
6:59 applause all right can we have all the jingle dress
7:21 dancers out here the first dance we will demonstrate is the Jingle dress anytime you're ready black with soul
7:41 jingle [Music]
7:58 dress heyyy
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8:55 hey hey hey [Applause] we'll do uh what we call um uh jingle
9:17 dress round dance or SID step as it is referred to and these dancers the jingle dress dancers will dance a jingle dress round dance
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11:14 there you have it the jingle dress next we'll call on the grass Dance come on out this dance is referred to as the non bustle this is the grass dance
11:30 anytime you're ready
11:39 [Applause] blackle
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12:54 next we'll have a single beat croop for the grass Dan the
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13:28 croop [Music]
13:58 he next we'll call on woman's fancy Shaw come on out woman's fancy
14:19 Shaw here we go woman's fancy [Music] Sha [Applause] [Music]
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15:43 [Music] the next dance will be a croop by the fancy sha dancers single beat
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16:58 I'm [Applause] next we'll call on wom's Crow style to come on
17:19 out women's Crow Style anytime you're ready black with soul woman's Crow
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17:58 Style hey heyy [Music]
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19:28 heyy next uh Crow style woman will dance the
19:47 double beat Crow Hop [Music]
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20:58 hey
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21:33 [Music] [Applause] next we'll call on all the men's Crow
21:57 style and the little boy Pro style come on out this is the men's Crow style anytime
22:13 you're ready black whistle men's Crow Style [Music]
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23:49 this next dance will be what they call the stoop dance song or duck and dive this is the stoop dance
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25:09 there you have it the stoop dance our next dance will be the double beat Crow Hop here we go double beat [Music] [Applause] kroop
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27:06 [Applause] he next we're going to call on two two
27:30 of our Crow style dancers to come out and demonstrate what they call the
27:34 prairie chicken dance anytime you're ready black witho
27:59 prairie [Music]
28:06 [Applause] [Music] chicken
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29:25 [Applause] where next we'll have uh just a regular song bring all the dancers back out I'd say oh we we can say inner tribal all right go ahead black
29:47 whistle all dancers please come on out
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33:27 go [Applause] [Music] ladies and gentlemen that was our way of life how about a nice round of applause
33:51 for black [Applause] whistle okay as we wrap up this this morning's exhibition of the different styles that we we got to exhibit we would like to introduce our dancers first of all we will call out the men's Crow style to my left here a veteran of the United States Marine Corps Mr Leon old Al
34:15 [Music] Leon over here on my right we have Walter Eugene old elk wave to the crow we have Fred Alden the fourth next to him we have Tristan realbird giveaway Tristan and that goodlooking man you see right here is Desmond rides horse
34:38 Desmond giveaway K and our grass dancer sedo Danforth give a wave to the crowd if you would and we have another handsome young man right here who was Kevin Kevin Valley I'm sorry Kevin give away for the
35:01 crowd and for women's Crow style dancers we have johnella Hill givea away johnella we have paully rird Paulie give a wave we have Cali rird we have Marsha blacksmith Amber old
35:23 horn we have Sher Chandler and we have our jingle dress dancers we have Monica turns plenty we have besto blacksmith and we have two of the best fancy Shaw dancers in our parts we have Erica turns
35:47 plenty and we also have Marilyn black e blacksmith I'm sorry I almost said Black [Music] Eagle and while we have a quick second we'll make an introduction to our singers we have Edmund oldow Jeff McDonald Rusty wear we have Darren old
36:12 coyote we have Brian Old Crow and all the way from prior we have Mark [Music] Denny and last but not least we'd like to introduce Skyla come here baby come here give a wave to the crowd that's Skyla blacksmith ladies and
36:35 [Music] gentlemen there you have it our presentation of our way of life thank you very much enjoy your stay we hope you have a good time thank you and do not forget we have a reenactment at 2:30 this afternoon right behind this awning we have the reenactment
36:59 2:30 this afternoon ladies and gentlemen the visitors if you were lying to take some pictures of the dancers I'm sure they will not mind if you ask them they'd be more than happy to have your photograph with them as well thank you very much all right everyone once again thank you if you are a dancer we would ask that you please uh stick around a little bit we have a little gift for you um
37:23 otherwise do want to let you know in about 20 minutes we're going to have a George heavyrunner he's a member of the black feet and he's going to speak about uniting the tribes so please feel free to join us in about 20 minutes for that program and uh once again we had the uh oldway dance troop the black whistle drum group and uh some MC work by Darren old coyote and Albert Grant so um thank you for coming and enjoying that today I
37:47 think uh we all really enjoyed Skyla too