Tent of Many Voices: 07250606

core of Discovery 2 tent of many voices this is one of the many parts of this exhibit that is traveling across the country following the Lewis and Clark Trail we have been traveling for three and a half years on this Trail and stopping in various towns and communities along the way just like yours here and bringing in presenters into the tent of many voices to share their perspectives of the Lewis and Clark expedition 200 years ago as well as the cultures and people they met along their Journey so with us at this hour are some dancers singers They're here from The Crow Nation and I want to introduce Darren old coyote who is going to introduce the rest of the dancers and singers so if you welcome everybody to the tent of many voices good afternoon ladies and gentlemen uh at this time um before we get started I'll be explaining some of the dances as we go along but before we do members of this dance group are from the great OBS soliga Nation Crow Nation as you guys know it we call ourselves OBS Solan Nation and at this time I present to you the dancers from the great OBS solaga Nation singers anytime you're ready let's bring our dancers in he heyy here they are dancers from the great of solaga the first style of dance will'll be presenting to you comes to us from the jibble people in the Great Lakes area among the jibble they say there was a young lady who had who who got sick about six years old and they say through a vision through a dream they saw this dress and the young girl was healed and just a few years back she died at about 100 years old so this dress is known as a medicine dress among the jib people and with that we're going to go into a song by our singers for Jingle dress there you have it jingle dress dancers the next dance style that they will be going into is what is known as the woman's dance among the jib people this in their language this song that the singers will be singing is known as the woman dance so with that a woman's jingle dress round dance there you have it the woman's jingle dress the next Style dance that will'll be presenting to you is known as the grass dance the men's grass dancers as they make their way out there this was a dance during interal Warfare the individual men would tie the scalps to their waist and then through the ears whether because of the smell I don't know because of the you know the the spirituality behind it they tied grass to their waist and then Through The Years you know we've adopted and adapted to many ways and today we use the the cloth and that's what the fringes are representing the scalps of long ago so with that the men's grass dance singers anytime you're ready men's grass la there you have it the men's grass s the next song that these dancers will be dancing to is what is known as the single s Le beat and many tribes have referred to this dance as the crow hop so with that they will be dancing the single beat croop heyyyy dance the next song that the dancers will be performing for you is a a dance that a lot of you are familiar with but with a Twist of Indian in there um this dance comes to us uh is known as the push Dan they say back in early 1900s a gentleman by the name of uh plenty Hawk traveled back East to New York City DC looking at the sites and they say he he went to a a ball where they were uh dancing the Fox Trot the twostep and he brought this dance back and he you know back then they all they knew was singing dancing and the The Crow away and he said they had the non-indians have a dance which is a social dance and he showed them the dance and the crows you know improvised and being very creative uh sang some marel dance songs with uh love love love song um it's this kind of a Love Song seraing Song and with that we're going to go into a push Dance for for your enjoyment singers anytime you're ready push dance for our in my for oh h there you have it push NS the worst of that song says uh my love they don't want me to come over but I'm going to come over anyway meaning they come over to see their love the next style we'll be presenting to you is the women's Crow style and the style of dress is uniquely Crow no other tribe in United States Canada where you see this type of and this dress represents the wealth and the pride of the family there's only two elk teeth in a elk you know one elk has only two teeth and some of these dresses uh you know from 300 400 elk teeth Adorn these dresses and that goes to show how great you know the men folk were and how you know um the crow men would go out and hunt and that's how because back in those days they would have to hunt and uh to get the the hide for the for The Lodges for their clothing and so there's uh we take a lot of pride in this dress you know the crow people wherever you go among Indian people you could always you know pick out the crows because of their the way they're dressed and you look at the bead work no two designs are the same um a lot of love and you know hard work go into these handmade bead work the Beauty and the pageantry Behind These be work and the mothers you know take a lot of time it takes a lot of time uh hard work and a lot of love goes into these outfits and the creator of these outfits you know they among the crow they say if you have a good outfit it's because your mother loves you that much so with that woman's Crow Style hey there you have it the woman's Crow the next dance style that these dancers will be dancing to is what is known as the double beat songs of The Crow and many tribes have have referred to the song as the double beat songs or or the Crow Hop and among the crow we refer to this dance as the double beat so with that woman's Crow style double beat or Crow Hop that is commonly loan there you have it women's Crow Style dancing the double beat songs of The Crow the next dance style that will be coming out is the men's Crow style and this dance Way Comes to us through the hia of North Dakota this uh dance way was bought over by jolet present day jolet Montana there's pictographs right above uh in a hills in jolet there's a pictograph of four dancers with tow feathers and they say the crow bought this dance way the T four tow feathers from the hia around the late 1800s and the crows uh bought this dance way with 400 horses they gave hiat 400 head of horses uh I believe they might be the same ones we stole from Clark but uh they say the crows um bought this way and since that time the crows have danced this way the the hiats about this hot dance away from uh the Santi Su the Santi Su in turn bought this dance away from the Omaha of Nebraska the Omaha and so through those different tribes this dance way has come to us the roach represents the Rays of the Sun and it's made out of uh porcupine hair they say that the bells represent the hoofed animals and you know uh ever since Santa Claus came around we use bows nowadays but uh before that they used Hooves and then the fur around the ankles represent the fur bearing animals and the belt represents the uh reptiles and represents a snake and so we this is all about nature we sing and dance because we're enjoying life here on Earth on Mother Earth and they say the armbands and the Cuffs come to us from the Cowboys and the way they dressed and so the crows saw that and they you know made it part of their regalia today and it's part of our uh the crow style way of dress and the tail feathers I talk about um our sacred tail feathers of the crow so with that men's Crow style singers any time you're ready wherever you go in Indian Country you can always pick out the crows because of the way they yeah the men Pro style the next dance style that we will be dancing is uh the same as the lady dancers dance the double beat Crow Hop and in this dance they'll be emulating the prairie chicken uh and if you watch the footwork that's what um these different dance styles if you watch the footwork that's where they differ in all the dance styles and the body movement with the crow style you know uh this is the double beat croww so anytime you're ready singers that will be kroop there you have it men's Crow Style dancing the double beat kroop the next Style dance that will'll be going into is what is known as the stoop dance song and this dance they say during inter tribal Warfare when enemy would shoot at the crow they would duck down as to avoid the being hit by uh an arrow or bullet so that's what the where the song comes from is from uh Inbal Warfare and with that stoop dance songs for our dancers anytime you're ready singers song there you have it the men's Crow style stoop n song the next song that the cro men's Crow style will be dancing is uh what is known as the ruffle dance or ruffer ruffle song so with that the men's Crow style ruffle song for our dancers in this dance they're emulating the prairie huah there you have it the men Crow at this time we're going to go into a general dance with all of our dancers how many you enjoyed the men's Crow style dancers let's let him hear it all right singers anytime you ready General dance for all of our dancers hey what l all there you have it solaga Nation dancers I would like to introduce our singers at this time Jeff McDonald Gordon planb tonone failen Ty backbone Merl big medicon Larry Eastman Steven house Randy failen and Edmond oldc these are your singers and I I was going to introduce all the dancers but it was too hot so they went for the shade but that's all of our Barry Glenn report to Sergeant pcel Barry Glenn report to Sergeant pcel