Native Braids - Stories From the Heart of Native America

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Web Name: Native Braids - Stories From the Heart of Native America

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"At a Sundance they prayed for me..." "Do those braids make you Ute?" "I had a younger brother and I loved him dearly..." "One night they heard somebody by the door..." "She would bring pickles...so delicious!" "Value yourself as a woman, stand up for your rights..." "Always connect with your traditional ways to come down to earth." "The drum is our heartbeat...you need to keep that heartbeat going..." "Running, I always see something different out there..." "I never had new clothes. Everything was from Goodwill." "I'd never seen a rat as big as a cat until I was in Vietnam..." "You had chopped off your brothers' braids, but I could not get mad...." "There's no such thing as 'uncivil' and...'poverty' and 'racism'...in Ute..." "You get home, you're so happy, and then all of sudden something changes..." "As soon as I kicked it, I just took off running toward the sidelines..." "Bear Dance makes us uniquely Ute..." "Growing up, we didn't have a hang out spot..." "One time, I took a whipping in school for a friend..." "Dialysis was kind of like a jail, like a prison....." "We wore earrings because we disobeyed..." "They called me 'little white boy', 'Cracker', 'Opie'..." "Why did I always have to play the cowboy?" "Our tribe never talked about being gay..." "Worship songs are some of the oldest ceremonies the Ute people have." "My dad had a partner...he looked just like Roy Rogers..." "The drum represents our mother's heart..." "You get to a point where you think you're invincible..."

EXTRAORDINARY STORIES

Our lives and communities are made of the every day: love, school, work, spirituality, growing up, getting old, military service, family rituals. Native Braids weaves together an extraordinary array of Native American voices.

Tell us your story.

Jeremy Wade Shockley, Southern Ute Drum

EXTRAORDINARY STORIES

Our lives and communities are made of the every day: love, school, work, spirituality, growing up, getting old, military service, family rituals. Native Braids weaves together an extraordinary array of Native American voices.

Tell us your story.

Jeremy Wade Shockley, Southern Ute Drum

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