~ Since 1992 ~
Our grassroots Native non-profit has served the people of the tribal nations in South Dakota.
Lakotas Transitioning to Culturally Grounded Lifestyles
NATIVE AMERICAN ADVOCACY PROGRAM
Executive Director and Board
Rev. Dr. Webster Two Hawk Sr., President
Rosebud Sioux Tribe
Webster Two Hawk Sr. is enrolled as a full-blood Sicangu Sioux. A graduate of Mission High School in South Dakota, he went on to graduate in 1952 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of South Dakota. He also holds a Master of Divinity from Kenyon College, Ohio, and is a veteran of the Korean War. From 1957 until 1968, he served as an Episcopal Priest on the Yankton and Standing Rock reservations. He was twice elected President of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, serving from 1969-73 and 1983-85. He served as the Hospital Administrator for the Rosebud Indian Health Service from 1976-82 and worked for the Aberdeen Indian Health Service from 1985-94. From 1996 to 2003, he worked for the Governor of South Dakota as the Commissioner for the Tribal-Government Relations Office. Now retired, he still serves as a non-stipendiary priest for the Episcopal Church, which he has done since 1968.
Earl Bullhead,
Secretary
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Earlwin Bullhead is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. He is a performer and educator with over 20 years’ experience teaching Lakota Language, Song and Dance, History and Culture at both elementary and secondary levels. Earl has produced numerous Lakota song albums of both social, ceremonial, hand drum and powwow CD’s with his drum group Ikce Wicasa. Earl is currently working within the Spirit Lake school system in North Dakota. He is an experienced presenter, having been key note speaker as the Lakota Language Summit held annually In Rapid City, SD. Earl has been an avid advocate in the sobriety movement throughout Indian country and has lent his expertise to commercial tobacco prevention messages and promoting sacred use of tobacco through tribal nations in North and South Dakota.
Marla C. Bull Bear, Executive Director
Rosebud Sioux Tribe
Marla is a member of the Milks Camp Community of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and is the founder and Executive Director of (NAAP), the first of two Native American Centers for Independent living in the Nation. Marla received her Masters in Counseling from Sinte Gleska University (SGU), a tribal university located on the Rosebud Reservation. She is a former chairwoman of the Board of Regents for Sinte Gleska University. In addition, Marla has served the state in various capacities including serving 12 years on the State Alcohol and Drug Advisory Council and Chairwoman of that council for 5 years ending her service in 2005 having last been appointed by Governor Janklow.
Jerome Kills Small,
Treasurer
Oglala Sioux Tribe
Jerome Kills Small is an Oglala Lakota from Porcupine, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Reservation. He graduated from and taught at the University of South Dakota, instructing Lakota language, American Indian thought, Siouan tribal culture, Lakota history, and a seminar on Black Elk. He also taugh tthe Dakota language and American Indian cultures at Nebraska Indian Community College in Santee, Neb., and South Sioux City, Neb.
Wayne Weston
member
Oglala Sioux Tribe
Joseph Marshall III
Historian
Rosebud Sioux Tribe
Joseph Marshall III was born and raised on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation and is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux) tribe. Because he was raised in a traditional Lakota household by his maternal grandparents, his first language is Lakota. In that environment he also learned the ancient tradition of oral storytelling. He is also a practitioner of primitive Lakota archery, having learned from his maternal grandfather the art of hand crafting bows and arrows. Joseph is also a specialist in wilderness survival.Joseph taught at the high school and college levels, and developed native studies curriculum as well. For several years he worked for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Now he writes full time, having published nine nonfiction works, three novels, a collection of short stories and essays, and has written several screenplays. Many of his books are published in foreign countries and he has won several awards for his books, both for the text and audio versions.Joseph has appeared in several television documentaries, served as technical advisor for movies, and had a role in a major television network mini-series. He was a technical advisor and narrator for the Turner Network Television (TNT) and Dreamworks Television six-part mini-series Into the West, as well as playing the on-screen role of “Loved by the Buffalo,” a Lakota medicine man.One of his most treasured and meaningful experiences was to be one of the founders of Sinte Gleska University (1971) on the Rosebud Reservation. He is one of the Charter Board Members.As a speaker and lecturer he has appeared in many venues throughout the United States and in countries such as France, Sweden, and Siberia.
Steven Tamayo,
Prevention Program Manager and Cultural Arts Specialist
Traditional Arts Professor
Omaha Metropolitan Community College
Rosebud Sioux Tribe
Steve Tamayo is a traditional Sicangu Lakota artist whose family originates from Milk’s Camp on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School in Council Bluffs in 1984, Tamayo enlisted in the United States Army and served in the 101st Airborne Division, stationed out of Fort Campbell in Kentucky. After returning to the Omaha metro area in 1987, he studied the traditional arts of the Umonhon people under Howard Wolf—who helped instill a deep appreciation and knowledge of Umonhon language, culture and history—and learned the importance of traditional materials, construction and the history surrounding native artifacts and powwow regalia.
In 2000, Tamayo and his family moved to the Rosebud Reservation, where he further developed his understanding of Northern Plains Indian Art, earned his BFA in Fine Arts from Sínte Gleska University and taught traditional arts in the University’s Lakota Studies program.
Today, Tamayo leads study and service groups on the Rosebud Reservation and travels to museums and colleges (such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian) throughout the country to identify historic methods of artifact construction and preservation. Tamayo’s most recent work with the National Museum of the American Indian is a current exhibition called “As We Grow,” which centers on traditional native games and toys. He is artist-in-residence and cultural consultant at Omaha Public Schools and will teach a course in Native American Art History at Metropolitan Community College in Spring 2014.
