Tent of Many Voices: 04100602TMB

all right we're about ready to get started thank you guys for being so well behaved um we appreciate that and I think you're going to have a real treat you are in the tent of many voices and this is uh part of the National Park Service come to your community area um in this tent we let people from all tribes All Nations anybody who wants to come and share their culture something to do with loose and Clark come and speak and so today we have a real tree we're going to have yaka dancing um and it's going to be from the Moses Hyer family and I'll let Moses introduce his family members as we go along so please welcome Moses and his family today hello everybody um my name is Carl uh my Indian name is squala so that's that's my Indian part of the acation so we have about three or four dances for you the first one will be my nephew uh he's named DJ Spencer he's going to perform uh two dances for you he's going to do the first one uh as a grass dancer the grass dancer uh originally came back from the Omaha Omaha tribe uh back in Nebraska so this dance is uh really what starts off the power house long long long long time ago uh the dancer uh dances the grass down and the outfit he wears is signifying the honor of the of of the grass that sways back and forth in the wind so without U we timed ourselves a little bit but we got behind a little bit so I want to go right into his dancing uh so this is DJ Spencer with the grass dance uh the two CDs that we had was one from sciton and the other one is called from Mountain Soul uh so the first song is from sciton hopefully we get it right it'll be the grass Dan song and Now ladies and gentlemen from Little Pine Saskatchewan red if you look at the dance the dance and the feet all match up with the drum every time he foot goes down to the ground drum beat D does the same thing he my hand okay if you if you notice when we when we have dances and dance contest that it usually has four maybe five verses so four four verses usually uh is what was is the minimum for our dance contest uh to exercise and go around as an inner tribal we go around with uh five verses or more so my my daughter uh she'll she'll introduce herself and the type of style of dancing she's can do and she'll talk a little bit about her crowns and the achievements she did while she was uh running as a young girl starting with her first Crown here here's my daughter stara good day everyone my name is Starla Moses Hyer my Indian names are and W and you can see my mom she's uh putting my crowns up these are the titles that I've earned throughout my years uh my first one was Veterans Day Junior Queen and that was uh seems like a long time ago uh I think I was about 10 years old and when I turned 13 I earned the junior Missy acation for our treaty day po uh national Indian days is the celebration of the return of P if you know the mountains there's one we call it P it's called Mount Adams and it was President Nixon who returned the mountain to the yaka people and that's what that power is held and then there's also tuin mapu and that is the University of Idaho Pao and then I had um run for Miss acation and the first year they gave me the woven hat you see here and this is an old style hat usually the women in the long housee wear these to signify their their place in the louse as root diggers Berry Pickers gatherers for the people and this is the Contemporary style of that hat you can see it matching bead work I also have a rose hat that was my first one roses are my favorite flower and if you'll see the stars in the back that's for my name stara and the colors is because I love to be colorful and the last one is the niak mantion title and that is for our treaty days we have celebrated 150 years of sovereignty and we will be doing that again this June uh June 9th around June 9th is weekend is when we usually have the power and that is the Miss yakam mination title and you'll see this is the traditional outfit of the northern style um this is about two three pounds of beads beads the individual beads all together three lbs and then you have the Beck skin and then you have the necklace which this one I made took about about 5 days and you have the Furs and then the Shaw and the fan and this is the northern style women's traditional ladies and gentlemen International singing Champions High Noon hey hey hey he hey heyy hey hey okay give her a hand okay um we're going to bring uh DJ back out he's going to do the round bustle this round bustle dance is the something that we in the Northwest can claim as our own original dance it's a bus bule that a round bustle means that uh one bustle for each arm and one tail bustle that's our style of dancing long time ago so uh this song that going to be it's usually a medium to sometimes a medium fast song um my family and including my nephew uh we've been dancing probably for the last 20 years or 22 years and myself I've been dancing for about 30 years before I became disabled so DJ is going to do which is called a round bustle dance okay thank you oh sometimes when you uh watch the dancers uh they try to imitate a an animal or a bir in nature how birds and animals move around and rough the Earth or they fly around on the earth so sometimes you see how an animal uh BS his head whether it's a chicken or an eagle or or even a bear these are some type of dances that we try to imitate the outfit um The Outfits sometimes they are Beed Sometimes They Are CL outfits the beat outfits usually take about 2 to 3 years CL outfits today take anywhere from 3 to four months so there's a lot of work in these type of outfits the feather work that you see that made right there sometimes they take 30 days and sometimes they take about 3 or 4 months to Featherwood you look at the top of his head they call a roach come from a porcupine a roach sometimes to take about 3 months or four months eagle feathers that you see on top of his ROP uh we don't go out and shoot the Eagles uh the the US government uh there's a place in Portland called the eagle willory and we put in a request uh if a dead eagle arrives over there and we put in request for Eagle then that that the Eagle's given to us so that we can use it either in our in our fan or on our roach up here on top all right give him a hand the next dancer coming up is Carl Jr and he will be doing the men's prairie chicken it's a came from the crow and it's traveled its way into Canada and Southern areas and he is also a champion fancy dancer but he will not be doing that today so Carl Jr and the prairie chicken time stand by girl way oh yeah thank you okay that that's a short program for us usually we put on a 2hour pro presentation for people and large group like this uh usually there's two other people that dance with us and we Dan uh we put on performances uh pretty much throughout the Northwest all the all the way up to uh Mount rer and all of us pretty much stick together and we all pretty much dance uh throughout power house uh throughout the United States and we call Indian Country so with this little program that we gave you we hope you uh give you a little bit idea of the type of style of dancing that we have and we'd like to thank the people that invited us to be with you thank you right give him a round of applause please my husband usually allows me to speak but today he's he's not I know it's a short program but I want to thank all of you and and to let you know that this is just part of how we are we still dress we dress modern now um this is just trying to keep our culture alive this is only part of it uh there's the religious part too that we don't have time to explain but we're just trying to share a little bit with you and I thank you for allowing me to share my family with you thank you you're a good audience let's thank the boses High here family once more