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I've been working on our original website Oyate Ta Olowan.We've been working on adding digital downloads to the site, but it's still a challenge. Oyate is a public radio series that we did on traditional Native American music. We did 52 half hour shows and traveled over 100,000 miles collecting music from all over the Americas. It was a while ago, but people still seem to love it, so we keep offering the shows for sale.

It's all a part of our little press Many Kites Press. Life is so amazing, and so full, but we keep on trucking. I hope things are going well for all of you, and that continue to create wonderful things. Later, Milt Lee

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    • Archive for April, 2008

    Crazy Spring Weather

    Crazy Spring Weather
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    So Wednesday night we had a really nice spring thunder storm.  But then on Friday morning, it started again, and by the end of the day, there was 15 inches of snow in th middle of the state.  Jamie was speaking  at the South Dakota History conference - doing a reading from Washsaka. It was really nice, but back to the weather.  Today, it is sunny and beautiful.  Typical South Dakota.  I was reading the paper this morning and it was talking about which state had the most optimistic people, and guess what - it was South Dakota!  So crazy, but I suppose it could be true.  After all, things are always really really tough in South Dakota - you have to work like crazy to make a living, but we are used to it.  So in really all the people who are left here in South Dakota are the folks that hung on during the depression - all the slackers left.  They moved…well, I don’t want to imply that the softies are living somewhere else, but I will say, you have to be either crazy, or really tough to live here.  And if you are really crazy, then I suppose you could be said to be optimistic.

    Anyway, here’s the storm!

    Miltr

    Published by Milt Lee on April 26, 2008 in Just Stuff. Tags: , , .

    School bored - oh yeah!

    School bored - oh yeah!
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    Last week I attended the Rapid City School Board meeting. They were planning on cutting many of the academic programs designed to help people with reading, math, gifted and talented. And of course their big mistake was they included grade school band and orchestra. Amazing how short sighted these folks are. 1100 people showed up and pretty much everyone was upset. It was actually very sad to see how little these board members understand about how learning, and true education really works.

    Published by Milt Lee on April 20, 2008 in Education. Tags: , , , .

    Mixed Blood Guy

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    This is a piece that was lost when I changed websites. But I always liked it and wanted to get it back up and running. It’s about 10 minutes long, and is about an Oglala Lakota artist. Kevin Pourier works with buffalo horns, carving them and then doing inlay work. It’s quite amazing to see. But kevin’s much more interested in the messages that his art conveys - the message that Native American art doesn’t have to “indians chasing buffalos”. Hope you enjoy it!
    Milt

    Published by Milt Lee on April 8, 2008 in Hollow Bone Films. Tags: , , , , , , , .

    All Time Fav's

    This is an old piece (last summer) but we keep doing the Bead People, and I just love it, so here it is! This morning we went to St. Elizabeth Seaton... This is a piece that I did as an homage to Werner Herzog and his documentary. Grizzly Man. Of course I could never duplicate the amazing. haunting...
    Beads Beads BeadsDog Man
    This is one of my all time Fav's - I had done it a while ago, and then never looked at it again. Then last fall, I dug it out, and was a bit shake... I'm working on this project again, and it seems like we are going to be able to continue doing the letters between inmates and their children. This i...
    Cowboys and IndiansVideo Letters From Prison

    Hollow Bone Films

    Folks,  here's a piece that introduces you to Show in A Box.  What is Show in A Box?  It's a bunch of plug-ins for Wordpress that makes your video ... I used to be a stage manager, and that meant that I was also a stage hand. I don't do it much anymore, but it's fun to keep you hand in. A week ago ...
    Show in a BoxChicago to Rapid
    About a month ago, my son, Murray, asked me to shot some stuff of him getting back to his mountain bike. We did some really fun things - but mostly i... This is a piece that was lost when I changed websites. But I always liked it and wanted to get it back up and running. It's about 10 minutes long...
    Fat Tire FatMixed Blood Guy

    Education

    We went to a wonderful workshop last week with Dr. Ed Zlotkowski from Bentley College in Boston. Ed is the senior faculty fellow at Campus Compact, ... Last week I attended the Rapid City School Board meeting. They were planning on cutting many of the academic programs designed to help people with...
    NeurogenocideSchool bored - oh yeah!
    As some of you know, a couple of weeks ago, Jamie and I went down to see some new grandkids. They were, and are, wonderful! But of course, that's wh... Back in the 60's, Dr. Rita Smilkstein found herself in a situation where she needed to take a job as a substitute teacher. And as we all know the ...
    Show me the way!Dr. Rita Smilkstein - the beginning

    Real Rez

    The "Voice of the Lakota Nation" had a celebration last month. It was very interesting, and probably a little strange if you don't live here. Lot... It's an old story, but it's still a good one. At the powwow, it's not always about just preserving culture, and keeping traditions alive. Lots of...
    Kili Radio 25th AnniversaryPreserving Humanity
    Back in 1974, a young Lakota guy with a big black hat came into my studio. He was a singer and wanted to record an album. I suggested that the fi... Last week, I went down to Red Cloud Indian School to watch the Red Cloud Crusaders play the Little Wound Mustangs. For those of you who don't live ...
    Buffalo - The Lost Red Bow TapesRed Cloud Basketball

    Just Stuff

    This is the last piece on our first summer of blueberry farming.  With the help of Rick Baird, Jamie's brother, we got our rabbit fence up - literall... Just before we left, I asked Jamie to do a little piece on her favorite blueberry patch.  Now as you may know, blueberry patches are very, very secre...
    Blueberry Chronicles: Rabbit Proof FenceBlue Berry Baby
    Part of homesteading has to be water management. I mean - you can't take a bath in the lake every single day, and the truth is - building fences, rem... After we got the logs, we had to get them on the land. So here it is. And some more information about what kind of logs we are using. I have sever...
    Homesteading - The Shower HouseHomesteading in Minnesota - unloading the logs