Lakota
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‘Tatanka Ska’ means White Buffalo in Lakota. Buffalo represents Prayer and Abundance….the herds provided food, clothing and shelter to the Plains People. The Medicine of Buffalo is about honoring all that Mother Earth provides for us. It is about the understanding that abundance is ours when we honor all Life as sacred and give thanks for all that we have been given. Buffalo inspires us to connect with the true meaning of Life. The White Buffalo is especially sacred to the Lakota people, as its story & prophecy have been told and retold for generations among them. Legend of the White Buffalo
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Autumn Gold Colours / Reflections of Beauty / Clouds and Sky Reflections on Chena River Lakes / Alaska North Star Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Featured Art 15 June 2009 Descriptions On Silence and Talking / We Indians know about silence. We aren’t afraid of it. In fact, to us it is more powerful than words. Our elders were schooled in the ways of silence, and they passed that along to us. Watch, listen, and then act, they told us. This is the way to live. Watch the animals to see how they care for their young. Watch the elders to see how they behave. Watch the white man to see what he wants. Always watch first, with a still heart and mind, then you will learn. When you have watched enough, then you can act. With you it’s the opposite. You learn by talking. You reward the kids who talk the most in school. At your parties everyone is trying to talk. In your work you are always having meetings where everyone interrupts everyone else, and everyone talks five, ten, or a hundred times. You say it is ‘working out a problem’. When you are in a room and it is quiet you get nervous. You have to fill the space with sound. So you talk right away, before you even know what you are going to say. White people like to argue. They don’t even let each other finish sentences. They are always interrupting. To Indians this is very disrespectful and even very stupid. If you start talking, I’m not going to interrupt you. I will listen. Maybe I will stop listening if I don’t like what you are saying. But I won’t interrupt you. When you are done I will make my decision on what you said, but I won’t tell you if I disagree with you unless it is important. Otherwise I will just be quiet and go away. You have told me what I need to know. There is nothing more to say. But this isn’t enough for most white people. People should think of their words like seeds. They should plant them, then let them grow in silence. Our old people taught us that the earth is always speaking to us, but that we have to be silent to hear her. / There are lots of voices besides ours. Lots of voices. / Lakota Wisdom Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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Contemplative Native American Dancer waiting to enter the ring at the “wacipi”.
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Hand of a male dancer at a powwow in the Black Hills. The beadwork is amazing!
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Small Dancer letting the photographer know he was no pushover.
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Lakota dancer, Black Hills of South Dakota
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Native American boy at a powwow (wacipi). He looked so serious and focused!
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This handsome Native American gentleman had such wise and warm eyes….taken at a wacipi (powwow) on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. This is an “as is” image, no enhancements, no manipulations. 35mm film, Fuji Astia. Taken with my trusty Nikon F3 camera.
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Please join The Phoenix Appeal and see all the other artists that are helping victims of The Bushfires in whatever way they can. Your work counts and Australia needs your support….Please Help! All profits from the sale of this image will be donated to The Bushfire Appeal. Please visit all the appeal groups that have been set up on Redbubble the Phoenix Appeal for the Victorian Bushfires and the associated Phoenix Group & The Victorian Bushfires Wildlife Appeal and the associated Wildlife Appeal Group For as long as necessary 100% of proceeds received from Redbubble, in respect of all sales will be donated to the Victorian Bushfire Appeal. / / Redbubble accounts department has been notified of this decision. / Please help in whatever way you can! Every Little Helps! _Ghost Dance of 1890 was the last clash with the U.S. Army at Wounded Knee, where hundreds of Lakota women, children and men were massacred. This dance is still performed today….The accompanying poem was written anonymously How bright the moonlight / how bright the moonlight / as I ride in with my load of buffalo meat. My father did not recognize me. / Next time he saw me he said, / You are the child of a crow. I am looking at my father / I am looking at him / He is beginning to turn into a bird / Turning into a bird They say / The spirit army is approaching, / The spirit army is approaching, / The whole world is moving onward, / The whole world is moving onward. / See, everybody is standing, watching. / Everybody is standing, watching. The whole world is coming, / A nation is coming, a nation is coming. / The Eagle has brought the message to the people. / The father says so, the father says so. / Over the whole earth they are coming. / The buffalo are coming, the buffalo are coming. / The Crow has brought the message to the people, / The father says so, the father says so. My children, my children, / It is I who wear the morning star on my brow, / It is I who wear the morning star on my brow. / I show it to my children, / I show it to my children_ Music – Ghost Dance No.1 in the series – Painted using a new technique and experimenting on recycled materials. / The first in the series….hope you like it? Thanking everyone for their support and interest….Sophie x 27th February 2009
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‘Cankpe Opi’ is Lakota for Wounded Knee…..the site of a massacre which occurred on December 29, 1890 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. On that bleak winter morning, the Sioux chief Big Foot and some 350 of his followers camped on the banks of Wounded Knee creek. They were surrounded by 500 US troops who were to disarm and arrest them. Sitting Bull had been murdered just days before. During a meeting to try and come to a truce, a shot from an unknown party was fired; this anonymous shot started the massacre. Indians ran to get their guns and defend themselves, but the surrounding army cut them all down. Over 300 Sioux were killed that day, and the massacre officially ended the Indian Wars but began the years of recrimination against the US government for their brutality toward the Indians. In the late 90’s, we visited the Wounded Knee Monument and it was one of the most chilling experiences I have ever had. Sitting there on the grass outside the fenced area which holds many gravesites, looking out over that valley, I could feel the strong Spirits of the Ancestors. I heard them singing and the beating of the drums permeated my being…I will never forget that feeling…. Today, sitting here in my home on this most beautiful winter’s day in the Rocky Mountains where I am safe and warm, I thought of that awful day and was compelled to create some art to honor those who died there that day in the snow covered hills of South Dakota…. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
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Native American man waiting for the Grand Entry at a wacipi (powwow) in the Black Hills of South Dakota…...so focused and intent..very much “In the Moment”.
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‘Akita mani yo’—These Lakota words touch my spirit….as we walk through this world, how much there is to observe…..tiny, beautiful forms of life right there in our path…...to see, to honor and to appreciate as an expression of the Divine in our world…. This beautiful little mushroom was peeking up from the grasses of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado….pointed out to me by my observant friend, Shilohlin, as we walked together in nature. /
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This young Native American dancer flashed me the most beautiful smile when I took her picture…. she won my heart over! Taken in the Black Hills, South Dakota.
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Original Pastel and Prismacolor pencil drawing. / Drawn on card stock,bonded acid free, low tooth artist drawing paper. This is a study from a photographer from the 30’s/40’s of the Native American…but I’ll be darned if I can find his name to give him the original photographic credit. Thank You for viewing my art. VIEW susan’sgallery / VIEW susan’szazzle /
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Pencil sketch. i used to take care of Washan (Lakota for Spirit Horse). His owners just left him (he was like 25 years old when i met him) in his stall every day so i volunteered to take him out for exercise almost every day. Just walked him around so he could feel the sun & eat the grass. He was a very gentle & loving Horse. i think i knew him for 3 years til he passed away. The other Horses in the picture were his stall mates. people should not have a Horse unless they are willing to let them live as a Horse should, be out in the open, but have access to shelter, but never should they be cooped up in a dark stall. Now i feed a Horse on a daily basis, just take him carrots & usually bagels, or other treats i can find for him. Many other people feed him treats too, we are the only companions he has. Horses need other Horses for companions, they are herd Animals. i am still trying to find a rescue group to take Renfield (what i named him, his real name is Feston, he is an ex race Horse stud), & place him where he will have other Horses. He must be close to 30 years old & has been alone close to 15 years, probably much longer. people are so thoughtless when it comes to Animals. Animals need to be around their own kind, they feel incomplete & lonely if not.
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This is a detail phototgraph of one of my Pastel and Prismacolor Pencil Drawings… “LaKota Child. / Drawn on card stock, acid free, bonded artist drawing paper. This is again a study in just lines and blocks of colorand blending. I try and get my students to see just the line of a shape, and blocks of color that you put close together and blend the harsh lines. This is the classic “Right Brain” approach to just trying to get something on canvas or drawing paper…stop naming what you see and just draw the shapes and the apply the colors. “LaKota Child” is another in a series I have started by request, for my private students so they have easier access to my collection in detail for study. / My Fine Art and Photograph Studio is located in Mesquite, Nevada. / Thank your for viewing my art. VIEW mygallery / VIEW susan’szazzle /
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Close up of a wolf at the Lakota Wolf Preserve Any profit made from the sale of this print will be donated to the Lakota Wolf Preserve**
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“THE LAKOTA WAS A TRUE NATURALIST – A LOVER OF NATURE. / The old Lakota was wise. He knew that’s man’s heart, away from Nature, becomes hard; he knew the lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too! / So he kept his youth close to Nature – its softening influence.” Luther Standing Bear / /OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE SOURCE: EVERY PART OF THIS EARTH IS SACRED by Jana Stone et al (Harper SanFrancisco, 1993), page 112.
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Long ago the Lakota found how important it was to learn to pray, / The white Buffalo woman taught that struggle was not the way. / She taught of importance of helping the self when seeking aid / that right action and prayer were in all that needed to be made. / White Buffalo taught to follow paths that did flow, / least resistance would come wherever they would go. / The Lakota learned to honor what they did seek, / with gratitude for all in words they did speak. / Blessed are those who can live by the medicine of the Buffalo! /
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Pop Art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in parallel in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop Art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist’s use of the mass produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of Fine Art since Pop removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for contemplation. The concept of Pop Art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.
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Pop Art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in parallel in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop Art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist’s use of the mass produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of Fine Art since Pop removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for contemplation. The concept of Pop Art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.
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Several American Indian words for Eagle.
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