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Center showcases Lakota storyteller (May 12, 2008) – The Center on the Missouri Riverfront will present “Lakota Storytelling for Children of All Ages” with Jerome Kills Small at 1 p.m. Sunday, May 18 in the Stanley Evans Auditorium. Admission will be free. The program will feature a number of stories, such as: “The 1949 Blizzard on the Prairie, from a Child’s Memory”; “Stories of the Animals around Jerome’s House”; and “The Story of the Little Ducks and Iktomi, the Trickster.” The artist also will perform selections from his latest CD, “Inikagapi: Celebration of Life.” Kills Small has been a frequent presenter at the Center and other educational and cultural institutions. He translates, explains and sings Lakota ceremonial, sweat lodge, powwow, rabbit, round dance and vision quest songs. He also performs with the Oyate Singers of Vermillion, S.D., and Iron Bull Singers, of Winnebago, Neb. He appeared in “Sucker Punched,” “Nagi Kicopi (Calling Back the Spirit),” “Lost Landscapes,” and “Bones of Contention: Repatriation and Reburial” (BBC). He portrays Dr. Charles A. Eastman, first medical doctor of the Dakota Nation; and Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief and British General. An Oglala Lakota, Kills Small grew up in Porcupine, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Reservation. He has a master’s degree in selected studies from University of South Dakota and teaches Lakota and Dakota languages, American Indian thought, Siouan tribal culture, Lakota history, and various seminars, including “Black Elk,” at USD. He has taught the Dakota language and American Indian cultures at Nebraska Indian Community College at Santee, Neb., and South Sioux City. For more information about Kills Small’s program, call 712-224-5242. The Betty Strong Encounter Center connects with the Sioux City Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center, a private, non-profit institution built and operated by Missouri River Historical Development, Inc. (MRHD), exit 149 off I-29.
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