What do people want? Money and things.
And yet I find I have nothing
and do not care
I am as unambitious as any fool
And the people, the people are so busy!
But I have nothing to bother about.
I am a bumpkin, a lout
I am different, I am strange
I live for the Mother"
(Lao Tzu from the Tao Te Ching)
My father is an Oglala Lakota man, born and raised on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. My mother is a German/american woman born and raised in northern California. Me? I am thankful everyday for the great blessing of being born Lakota. This, I have always been, but it is not all I have been. I was raised in the white world, brought to a christian church to pray and taught in school that I was an american. I was a quiet child, an introspective youth, a club kid, a party girl, an artist chick and an urban wanderer. But the spirits had other plans for me, Wopila! I was reunited with my father in my 20's. When I returned to the He Sapa and the open plains, all of my self remembered my home and my home remembered me! Still it took many years to get to where i am today...truly healing. Now, I spend my days learning to live Lakol Wicohan(the friendly lifeways), making art, music, movies and making relations. I am dreaming of a better day for all my relatives; a day when we can live free in this world, in a natural way again.
This day may be sooner then we thought!
Lila Was-te!
Mitakuye Oyasin
FREEDOM IS RESPONSIBILITY
This is a time of change. During this time We can utilize these technologies put before us to break down walls and bottle-necked barriers. We are making RELATIONS via media! The video camera, computer and internet are incredible new tools to express, to share and to send a voice with, as well as to learn, gather and relate with each other through. As an artist, I love that I can make something and the same day put it in a place where it can be shared with potentially anyone in the world..amazing! As a Free Human, the computer, youtube and myspace etc.. are the great equalizers. This new weapon is connecting Nations, giving voice to the common People and giving rise to the Revolution..
VIVA LA REVOLUTION!
STAY AWAKE!!
PUT YOUR VOICE OUT THERE
STAND UP PROUD
SAY WHO YOU ARE
WHO YOUR PEOPLE ARE
AND WHAT YOUR DREAM IS
Mitakiyapi, Denise Giago emaciyapi ksto. I am Lakota. I am a Daughter, a Sister, an Auntie, a Winuhca, a friend. I strive to be a Woman of the People, to someday be Unci to all Children and to hold up the honored title of Lakota Winyan.
I make to share my Dreams and Stories, I make to share Life and to show the People what is in my Heart.
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