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1/13/2007
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Kiowa Elder Preserves History Through Song
Author: Judy Gibbs Robinson, The Daily Oklahoman Source: Indian Country Today
Title: KIOWA ELDER PRESERVES HISTORY THROUGH SONG
After knee surgery and a bad fall, Evans Ray Satepauhoodle has trouble getting out of his recliner. When he does, he leans heavily on a cane.
But physical infirmities cannot keep the 74-year-old Kiowa elder from a date he made with posterity. Several times a month, in the living room of his small wood-frame home, he sings old American Indian songs into a university professor's digital tape recorder to preserve them for all Oklahomans, not just Indians.
''This will help them better understand my people,'' Satepauhoodle said.
The Kiowa words that rise and fall tell the story of the warrior Sitting Bear, who refused to become a prisoner after being captured near Fort Sill. As U.S. soldiers loaded the captive Indian into a wagon bound for prison, the warrior announced that when he arrived at a certain elm tree, he would be dead. When he reached the tree, he pulled out a knife and quickly was killed by a soldier guarding the line.
This is real. My grandma used to point out that elm tree to me every time we went to the Indian hospital,'' Satepauhoodle said.
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| Linguistic Preserves | Jan 14th. at 10:16:10 am EST
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
I recall a story, of an anthropologist who wanted to learn an Indian Language, so he found an elderly member of that tribe, in Jail, and learned the dialect from him. After studying the language to some fluency, he visited a Pow-Wow of that tribe, and tried it out, to uproarious laughter.
"Your Pronounciation is fine, but you sound like a toothless old man."
Arawn
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