| Daynetta[Nita] Beautiful Bald Eagle |
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| Of Cheyenne and Lakota heritage,Nita was born on the Pine-Ridge indian reservation in 1962.She has been studying the old ways of her people,and has been doing a lot of interpretive programs on all the aspects of the woman's role in the Lakota society for indian students and non-indian audiences. |
| She is also an accomplished traditional beadworker,creating some old-time Lakota beadwork with old time color beads and natural sinew threads. |
| Nita believes that to have the right understanding of all the tasks that the Lakota women were able to do on the pre-reservations time,only hands on experience will do.Using the elkhorn scraper to clean a buffalo hide,or the stone cherry pounder,passed down the generations,to make chokecherry patties,using these ancient tools will open a window on the past and bring a deeper understanding of what the life of a Lakota woman was like in the "buffalo days" |
| Some newspaper articles about Nita's lectures |
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