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Post by matoakicita on Jun 8, 2007 13:18:15 GMT -5
FREDERICK LEMAY JR. SON OF DELPHINE LITTLEHEAD LEMAY
PASSED AWAY SAT. 6-2-07 GRANDSON OF BESSIE CLOUD CAMPBELL LITTLEHEAD
GREAT GSON OF MOSES CLOUD / REBECCA CAMPBELL CLOUD
GGGSON OF WILLIAM J. MARY HALSEY CAMPBELL & MAHPIYA SHUNKA (JOHN B.) /IPAWEGE (ANNA) CLOUD
PLEASE PRAY FOR TUWE DELPHINE LEMAY & FAMILY
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Post by santee1954 on Jun 8, 2007 13:28:50 GMT -5
Please let the family know that they are in my prays at this time of sadness.
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Post by mdenney on Jun 8, 2007 13:30:50 GMT -5
Acknowledged...
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Post by hermin1 on Jun 8, 2007 14:07:49 GMT -5
My heartfelt sympathies and prayers go out to the family at this very sorrowful time. may his memory be eternal.
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Post by Curtis Kitto "MIKE" on Jun 8, 2007 15:19:34 GMT -5
The Kitto Family extends it condolences during this time of sorrow and prayers that the peace which passes all understanding remains with you and your family, always.
MIKE
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Post by tamara on Jun 8, 2007 17:10:17 GMT -5
I am very sorry for your family's loss. My heartfelt condolences to you and your family.
Tamara
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Post by peacekeeper on Jun 8, 2007 17:57:14 GMT -5
Les and Auntie, I am deeply saddened by your loss. I am sorry that I never met this relative, but am deeply grateful for meeting the both of you. If there is anything that I can do, please let me know.
Your relative, Jackie
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Post by dawn on Jun 8, 2007 19:55:13 GMT -5
I am very sorry to hear of your loss. You and your family will be in our thoughts and prayers.
Dawn
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Post by poncalady on Jun 9, 2007 7:21:17 GMT -5
Our prayers are with the family at their time of sadness.
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Post by matoakicita on Jun 10, 2007 10:59:35 GMT -5
A WOPIDA TANKA (big thank you) TO ALL OUR RELATIVES THAT WAKAN TANKA BLESSED US WITH, FINDING ALL OF YOU THESE PAST YEARS HAS BEEN A BLESSING. WE KNOW THAT BROTHER FREDD IS WITH OUR TIOSPAYE UP AT THE CAMP WAITING FOR US ALL WITH THE FAMILY (oyate) . WE MUST ALL KEEP OUR HEARTS TOGETHER LIKE THE OLD WAY WE ARE COMING FULL CIRCLE. PIDAMAYA I AM MATO AKICITA
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Post by deanndion on Aug 15, 2007 14:22:38 GMT -5
your thoughts are in my prayers to you and your family . de Ann
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Post by preeves on Aug 16, 2007 1:27:47 GMT -5
My prayers are with you and your family. Patty
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Post by Vicky on Sept 15, 2007 12:55:16 GMT -5
Say a little prayer today for mdenney. He is having surgery. God bless you Mike, and get well quick. We'll miss you! Come back soon!
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Post by tamara on Sept 15, 2007 17:57:56 GMT -5
Say a little prayer today for mdenney. He is having surgery. God bless you Mike, and get well quick. We'll miss you! Come back soon! That explains his disappearance... I will pray and of course I wish him a very speedy recovery. Tamara
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Post by santee1961 on Sept 15, 2007 19:11:29 GMT -5
Wishing you a speedy recovery, lots of attention and plenty of rest. I am in the process of recovering from sugery myself and it's hard to "bounce back" like when we were younger. Getting old is such a pain! LOL
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Post by wakanhotanin on Dec 13, 2007 9:31:43 GMT -5
I just learned that Floyd Westerman passed away. They are bring him back to Sisseton for burial. His brother Cecil just called. I will post more details as I get them. Louie
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Post by Vicky on Dec 13, 2007 15:15:13 GMT -5
I am so saddened by this news. I'm sure there are some who aren't aware of Red Crow's many talents and deep commitment to the Native cause. He was truly a legend and will never be forgotten. If we could all endeavor to do half as much good in the world as he did, it would be a better place. From the net-
"He may be the most recognized face in Indian Country, with a dignified and melodious voice to match. He’s met Prince Charles, President Mitterrand of France, the late Pope John Paul II, and the King and Queen of Spain. He has toured the globe with Sting on a speaking tour about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and its Native peoples, acted in films from Dances With Wolves to Hidalgo, and performed hundreds of concerts alongside the likes of Willie Nelson, Don Henley, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Kris Kristofferson. He’s produced a documentary film, narrated others, and is in demand as an event host and motivational speaker. An early member of the American Indian Movement, he is also active in social change and lends his time to supporting many nonprofit organizations and projects. Currently, however, the next breath of air is about the finest thing going for Floyd Red Crow Westerman.
About six months ago, Westerman (Dakota) underwent a successful lung transplant operation. “Right now, I feel so grateful that I’m able to approach life with a deeper appreciation than ever,” he explained in a recent interview in Santa Fe. “We take so much for granted, including our breath. It’s a gift. I give thanks now when I wake up with the birds chirping, can take a breath of air and do things I thought I’d never get to do again—like singing—which is really what I’m about.”
Born in 1935 on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Reservation in South Dakota, Westerman was carted off to boarding school at age seven. “You bite the bullet at the beginning and then somehow survive. Survival is easy when there is no other choice,” he recalls. However, it was not all hardship—he made some lifelong friends there and first picked up the guitar, the key to his future.
After graduating from Northern State College in South Dakota, where he majored in secondary education but most enjoyed his studies in speech, theater and art, the young man headed to Denver, Colorado. Here he befriended a young Indian writer, Vine Deloria, who has gone on to international fame as a writer and leading Indian intellectual.
“Vine is the reason why I moved into the public eye,” Westerman says. “He’d come to the lounges and piano bars where I was playing in and near Denver and sit around and sing. We’d talk about his book he was writing—Custer Died for Your Sins. He said, ‘You know, there should be a song about the anthropologists who poke around in our lives.’ I said, ‘I’ve been thinking about that. That’s true.’ He’d written about anthropologists, about missionaries and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, who really got Indians hung up and frustrated and castrated. I decided I wanted to express the Indian point of view through songs, so we lifted songs out of these chapters. It’s possible I could have gone to Nashville and had a very successful career on the country-western route, but instead I went to the core of expressing the Indian point of view—sometimes very critically of America—which explains why my music is more popular in Europe than America.”
Despite the often-stinging bite of his songs, Westerman’s early albums—Custer Died for Your Sins (released in 1970) and This Land is Your Mother (released in 1982)—sold well enough to launch him into the public eye. (Much later, Westerman acquired rights for the two albums and reissued them on his own label, Red Crow Creations. They are available today through Amazon.com, select other Web sites and his live shows.)
The 1970s also saw the rise of the American Indian Movement, a civil rights organization that reflected the increasing pride, and frustration, of a new generation of Indian leaders. The movement crossed a deadly watershed with the occupation and eventual shootout with federal and local authorities at Wounded Knee, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1973. Among those leading AIM was co-founder Dennis Banks (Anishinaabe), with whom Westerman had gone to school. “It’s no wonder we ended up at Wounded Knee together—we’ve been brothers since we were kids,” he says.
In 1978, Westerman made the first of his 60-plus trips to Europe, teaming up with musician Harry Belafonte on a tour protesting the nuclear power industry—a cause he remains dedicated to today. “It’s the worst thing man ever invented. It’s stupid. It’s like jumping in front of a moving train. It’s Pandora’s box. You can’t get rid of the waste. The future is supposed to be built around what’s good for children, not industries. I think this country is bankrupt when it comes to imagination and enacting the principles of the seventh generation.”
The next phase of his life centered on making films and working in television. Among his first films was Renegade, playing the father of Lou Diamond Phillips. In 1989 he was the voice of a CB trucker in Pow Wow Highway, and then in 1990 came perhaps his best-known role, as Ten Bears in Dances With Wolves. In 1991 he played the shaman to Val Kilmer’s Jim Morrison in The Doors, and in 1992 he starred in the Canadian production Clearcut (the New York Times said of his role, “He’s the deepest character, and a man of few words.”). Other films he has appeared in include Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994), Naturally Native (1998), Grey Owl (1999, with Pierce Brosnan) and Hidalgo (2004).
His television roles include the award-winning miniseries DreamKeeper (2003) and numerous appearances on The X-Files (as Albert Hosteen), Walker: Texas Ranger and Dharma & Greg, as well as Northern Exposure, L.A. Law and as Sitting Bull in the miniseries Son of the Morning Star. Yet another endeavor has been serving as a narrator on several documentary film projects, including 500 Nations.
In the late 1990s, Westerman launched a film, television and music production company in Los Angeles, the nonprofit Eyapaha Institute. A secondary goal of the group is to provide training for young Natives in media production, which has taken many forms from seminars and conferences to the making of the company’s first major documentary, Exterminate Them!: America’s War on Indian Nations—Part 1: The California Story. The 47-minute work focuses on the holocaust of Indians in California and is planned as the first in a series. “Research is almost done for other parts of the country,” says Westerman. “Now I need money to produce them. After the premier occurs in California, I’m taking the whole package to cable television and sell it as a brand.”
On top of this, he has recently begun creating a series of life-size bronze busts of great chiefs like Sitting Bull and Geronimo, and is writing his autobiography (with Deloria serving as editor).
Despite all these projects and recovery from his operation, Westerman is also excited to be helping to organize and perform in a series of concerts to raise funds for presenting cultural programs to Native youth in response to the school-shooting tragedy on the Red Lake Reservation. Three days after our conversation, he was to perform at a concert in Minneapolis with Bonnie Raitt, and he has been discussing shows around the nation with Willie Nelson and many other well-known performers.
“We want to educate the general public about Indian issues and develop money to help these youth programs that are so desperately needed,” Westerman says. “I’m calling it the ‘Concerts for the Healing of the Nations.’ We need to highlight the youth, put them in front, make them our first priority. Everything follows behind that. Basically it’s to bring the traditional culture back into the young people, because there’s been a few decades where the Indians are becoming more like Yuppies and it’s pulling them from their traditions.”
With his middle name—Kanghi Duta—handed down from his great-grandfather, his immersion in his cultural practices and his lifelong efforts to sing—both literally and figuratively—the praises of his people, you can be sure Red Crow will not stray from his course flying high above the status quo."
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Post by Vicky on Dec 13, 2007 15:52:52 GMT -5
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Post by Vicky on Dec 15, 2007 12:14:53 GMT -5
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Post by jazzdog on Jan 16, 2008 1:58:21 GMT -5
Hello everybody.....
been away for awhile. Keep monitoring the kind and diligent exchanges amongst the sharing. Keep up the good work.
We lost someone about a week ago, that deserves some attention and recognition, as it relates to her journey down the Holy Road to that place where our dreams tell us, we all ought to be when the final breath leaves our lungs. Betty is her name. Christmas was her favorite time of the year. She collected anything to do with Angels....... Her faith was, and is, strong.......always has been. Her love has been unconditional, strong and complete.....always has been. She was 72. She and her husband, Ken, almost made it to their golden (50th) anniverary. A trip was planned, but is now forever, on hold, until we can all see each other again. Her love of life, of God, of her family........was extraordinary. Her commitment to the betterment of others' lives was kind and giving. Her physical pain in the last years, was recognizable, and undeniable. And yet, her thoughts were not of herself, but how her inability to physically participate, would cause others to stay behind just because of her....... oftentimes, her words of comfort and understanding, I now know, were meant to divert the focus from her own needs, to that of the others......to elevate those needs of the others beyond her own despite the event or occasion. She lived, to love. She thought of things to do for others and her family, that, when one sits back and examines the acts, has to conclude that her drive to make the lives of others better, by her gifts and comfort, was beyond the words that are often exchanged at thoughtful and peaceful moments. She was a giver. She is a gift......always has been......always will be. Her legacy is her beautiful children and her loving grandchildren, and the fine husband she left behind.......temporarily, at least. When we said goodbye to her, we all knew it was temporary. We will all meet again. She was amongst her husband and five children around her bedside, when the Great Spirit finally carried her within his great wings at about 4 am January 4th....... although athritis crippled her feet, legs and hands, her joyful heart and mind never gave up her joyful disposition and her grand belief that all will be good in the end.........I like to think of her now, now, that her feet are sturdy, and her legs are strong, and her lungs breathe freely with the clean air of the great oxygen of the history of life, that she now moves, and runs, through the open,rolling field, with no worry about those that would care if she would accidentally fall......no, now, her hair is blown back by the wind as she strides toward the edge of the meadow, looking ever forward to the bright and flickering motion of the running stream and the smell of the fresh grass and the trees is heavy in the air.......no constraints, no restrictions, no doctors' orders....no pain....... You do not have to wait behind now, Betty,.......I can see you now....no pain, no restraint..............run, Betty,.............run....... Betty will be forever in our thoughts. She left her footprint on our lives. My wife and I know that her mother is finally with the angels.
thanks for any thoughts and prayers.
your friend
Jazzdog
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