Our Bear Horse Thunder Youth Leadership Society has developed a number of competencies in Lakota culture and skills that they are prepared to share in a "performance/ educational" session to other youth and the public.

 

Possibilities include:

• Lakota song and dance. They have their own drum group and have dancers to represent all dance styles and can offer explanation and narrative on Lakota social dances, regalia and its use and meaning, and powwow "etiquette"

• Lakota hunting games and demonstration of games of skill

• Native Hand games demonstrations and teaching both men's and women's games (moccasin games plum pit games, Lakota, Flathead and Northern Cheyenne style hand games)

• Leather and par fleche making demonstration and "make and take" projects for youth (there is a separate fee with all make and take activities to cover materials)

• Hand drum singing and hand drum making (make and take session)

• Set up a tipi with traditional furnishings for viewing and presentations to the public (additional costs involved with transporting tipi, poles and furnishing)

• Traditional native arts, moccasins, jewelry make and take and/or items for sale for fundraising.

• Uses of the buffalo presentation

• Lakota Regalia making

• Symbols and designs of the Lakota

• Lakota archery