New Years Eve Safe Events we sponsored in Batesland and Pine Ridge. Ringing in the New Year in a safe and positive way!
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Holiday Toy Drive
Mitakuye provided presents for kids in several districts this holiday season and kids and their families enjoyed a holiday feast! Thank you Paula Cantu and your elves for helping to make this happen!
Paula packs up the goodies for shipping.
Randi Shawaway and her elves wrap up the goodies in Wakpamani . Photo by Randi Shawaway
Celebration in Wakpamani
Santa in the house
“WAKANYEJA” – Tee Iron Cloud’s New Music Video
WAKANYEJA – A Prayer for the Children
Wakanyeja is Lakota for “sacred seed.” This traditional prayer song honors the purity and sacredness of children. This principle is at the center of everything we do here at Mitakye.
Wakanyeja was created as part of our Artist Mentoring program.
Traditional song performed by Tee Iron Cloud
Directed by Jennifer Jessum
Produced by Flying Limbs Inc. Productions for The Mitakuye Foundation
November Winners: PEACE
We had an amazing group of submissions for this months contest! Congratulations to all the winners and all of the participants! Everyone who submits is entered into our Creator’s Club where they earn points every month they submit to save up for prizes.
Grand Prize Winner: Wylie Brewer, Age 15
First Place Honors Winner: Morgan Nava, Age 17
First Place Honors Winner: Baylie Her Many Horses, Age 14
First Place Honors Winner: Rossy Long , Age 13 – Detail
First Place Honors Winner: Rossy Long , Age 13 – Wider/partial
First Place Winner: Enrique Hudspeth, Age 16
First Place Winner: Diamond Good Voice Flute, Age 8
First Place Winner: Emilee Swalley, Age 13
Honorable Mention Award Winner: Victoria Big Crow, Age 10
Honorable Mention Award Winner: Colby Walking Eagle, Age 10
Honorable Mention Award Winner: Danica Ferguson, Age 9
Honorable Mention Award Winner: Kimimila Deans, Age 10
Honorable Mention Award Winner: Kobe Gray Grass, Age 18
Award Of Merit: Serenity True Blood, Age 10
Award Of Merit: Arlene Palmier, Age 9
Award Of Merit: Jaden Brewer, Age 9
Award Of Merit: Tairan New Age 11
Award Of Merit: Eliza Brien, Age 10
Award Of Merit: De’Ambreah O’Rourke, Age 9
Award Of Merit: Kobe Two Lance Age 11
Award Of Merit: Tailey May, Age 9
Award Of Merit: Latonna Blue Bird Age 10
Award Of Merit: Autumn Rogers, Age 10
Yogi Ninjas Race For Lakota Youth!
Thank you to the awesome Yogi Ninjas who chose The Mitakuye Foundation as the organization they would run for in the Spartan Race December 11th, 2016. They trained hard and ran hard all to raise dollars for our youth programming, Our deepest thanks to this amazing crew. We are delighted that they exceeded their goal of raising $1000 for Mitakuye! Wopila!!!
December Art Contest: TRADITION
October Winners: UNITY
Congratulations to all of our October winners for the theme of UNITY!!
Grand Prize Winner: Baylie Her Many Horses, Age 14
First Place Winner: Kimimila Deans, Age 10,
First Place Winner: Serenity True Blood, Age 10
First Place Winner: Lucas Shot With Arrow, Age 10,
Honorable Mention Award Winner: Daniel Catches, Age 10,
Honorable Mention Award, Skyline Thunderhawk, Age 10
Honorable Mention Award Winner: Colby Walking Eagle, Age 10
Award Of Merit: Shawn Janis, Age 11
Award Of Merit: Tailey May-Pourier, Age 9
Award Of Merit: Cody Mousseaux, Age 9
Award Of Merit: Anthony Bowmen, Age 9
Award Of Merit: De’Ambreah O’Rourke, Age 9
November Art Contest: PEACE
Hoye Wayelo Fall Arts Workshops is a WRAP!
Artists and teachers gather around the drum!
Back from an amazing workshop with the young people of Pine Ridge!
Young artists from all over the reservation created content for our quarterly magazine and a gallery full of painting, drawing, collage, and three dimensional art. They built a traditional drum and carved and painted their own drum sticks. They did traditional bead and quill work and wove baskets from sweetgrass. One group wrote, directed, and shot a scary movie which they created original choreography, music, and sound effects for! They did Halloween make-up and face painting with a professional hair and make-up artist. They all participated in an art/service project – braiding fresh sweetgrass for Tiny and the BEARs program and took part in painting our new mascot Big Red. Phew – that was a lot of creating!
We all kept the people in Standing Rock in our thoughts and prayers and used our time together to discuss and create art that reflected what was on our minds. These beautiful young people chose to use their time and energy for something positive and constructive. We finished the program with a movie screening, some spoken word poetry, and an Art Walk to see everything the students created. We finished by handing out awards for the September art contest and then celebrated with Indian Tacos!
Thank you to all of the people who helped make this workshop possible!
Chris Bordeaux, Julie Yellow Hawk, and the Porcupine School staff! Simon J. Joseph, Tiny DeCorey, Rick Gray Grass, Waylon Black Crow, JT Shinning Oneside, Paula Cantu, Maryan Captain, Brittanie Sterner, Mary Gleason, Sandhya Ramachandran, Vanne Mocilac, Outlast Film Program, Charlyn Griffith, Sam Spetner, Lakota Prairie Ranch Motel, Terry Pechota, Lee Linehan and Oelrichs School, Cheryl Locke, Kellee Brewer and Wolf Creek School.
Our Mascot BIG RED welcomes the students. Photo Simon Joseph.
Our amazing hosts Pahin Sinte Owayawa! Photo Simon Joseph.
Morning Circle. Photo Simon Joseph.
Morning greeting! Photo Simon Joseph.
Waylon Bllackcrow makes a traditional drum with the students. Photo Simon Joseph.
Preparing the Buffalo Hide for the drum. Photo Simon Joseph.
Preparing the drumstick for sanding and painting. Photo Simon Joseph.
Drum Sticks. Photo Simon Joseph.
Students painting BIG RED. Photo Simon Joseph.
Painting Big Red. Photo Maryan Captan.
Kids setting up our Mascot BIG RED! Photo Sandhya Ramachandran.
Our newly designed mascot – painted by the students – makes its debut! Photo Simon Joseph.
Working on content for the magazine. Photo Maryan Captan.
Even Vampires love writing class! Photo Brittanie Sterner.
Art Class. Photo Sandhya Ramachandran.
Painting. Photo Sandhya Ramachandran
Painting. Photo Sandhya Ramachandran
Drawing. Photo Simon Joseph.
JT teaches traditional arts to the students. Photo Simon Joseph.
Beading. Photo Sandhya Ramachandran.
One of our artists shows off a sweetgrass basket in progress. Photo Sandhya Ramachandran.
Students create Halloween monsters with our resident Hair and Makeup artist Paula Cantu. Photo Jennifer Jessum.
Students help get the monsters ready for filming. Photo Mary Gleason.
Our filmmaking team rehearses a scene! Photo Sandhya Ramachandran.
Our DP Tailyn sets up a shot for the film. Photo Mary Gleason.
Our camera operator shoots the exterior scenes. Photo Sandhya Ramachandran.
Braiding the sweetgrass for our art/service project. All the sweetgrass grown and donated by our friend Vanne Mocilac! Photo Sandhya Ramachandran.
Sweetgrass braided by the students in our art/service project for Tiny and the BEARs program. Photo Maryan Captan.
Little Beau belts out a prayer song! Photo Jennifer Jessum.
Our young resident singers! Photo Sandhya Ramachandran.
Traditional drum and sticks created by the students. Photo Jennifer Jessum.
Art Walk. Photo Maryan Captan.
Final Art display for the Art Walk. Photo Jennifer Jessum.
Students check out each others work during the Art Walk. Photo Jennifer Jessum.
September Winners: WATER
Winners from our September Art Contest. This month’s theme was WATER. This has been a very important topic on many fronts and the young artists had many ways to interpret the theme. Congratulations to all of the winners!
Grand Prize Winner: Denato Two Bulls, Age 16, Oelrichs School
1st Place Honors Winner: Elizabeth Iron Horn Age 13
1st Place Winner: Joey Hill, Age 11, Wolf Creek School
1st Place Winner: Shawnee White, Age 13, Little Wound School
1st Place Winner:Dionne Mesteth, Age 14, Wolf Creek School
Honorable Mention Winner: Serenity True Blood, Age 10, Wolf Creek School
Honorable Mention Winner: Chamiqua Martinez, Age 11, Anpo Wicahpi School
Honorable Mention Winner: Eliza Brien, Age 10, Wolf Creek School
Merit Award Winner: Nisa Red Cloud, Age 11, Little Wound School
Merit Award Winner: Tara Roulliard, Age 12, Alpo Wicahpi School
Merit Award Winner: Mia Grant, Age 10, Wolf Creek School
Merit Award Winner: Ohiyesa Ramirez, Age 12, Anpo Wicahpi School
Merit Award Winner: Arlen Palmier, Age 9, Wolf Creek School
Merit Award Winner: Kayla He Crow, Age 10, Wolf Creek School
Merit Award Winner: Arianna Garcia, Age 11, Anpo Wicahpi School
Merit Award Winner: Tallinn Richards, Age 10, Wolf Creek School
Merit Award Winner: Britney No Leaf, Age 18, Gordon School
Merit Award Winner: LaTonna BlueBird, Age 10, Wolf Creek School