Native Spirit and The Sun Dance Way

Native Spirit and The Sun Dance Way

The Spirit of the Elders Lives on
The 2-DVD Documentary Set

Cast Photos and Biographies

Cast and Contributors Click on a photo for more information
Thomas Yellowtail - Crow Tribe Gordon Tootoosis - Cree Tribe Joe Medicine Crow - Crow Tribe Arvol Looking Horse - Lakota Tribe	James Trosper - Shoshone Tribe Tantoo Cardinal - Cree Tribe Janine Pease- Crow Tribe John Arlee - Salish Tribe
Ines Talamantez - Mescalero Apache

Stills from Native Spirit and
The Sun Dance Way DVD

Fools Crow

"The Sioux are raised in the Sun Dance and it is the highest expression of our religion. All share is the fasting, the prayer and the benefits. Some in the audience pray along with the dancers, everyone is profoundly involved. And because of this the Sioux Nation and all the peoples of the world are blessed by Wakan Tanka."
Fools Crow, Oglala Lakota

Yellowtail Sage on Fire

"In our morning Sunrise Ceremony, when we sing the four sacred songs, we bring forward all the Medicine Fathers and all the sacred beings in the universe hear our prayers."
Thomas Yellowtail, Crow

Col. John Chivington

"Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians. I have come to kill Indians and believe that it is right and honorable to use any means under God’s Heaven to kill them.”
Col. John Chivington.

Pretty Shield

"The happiest days of my life were spent following the buffalo herds over our beautiful land."
Pretty Shield, Absaroke

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