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Cantemaza

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About Me

Hau mitakuyepi! Owasin Cantewasteya nape ciyuzapi do! Cantemaza de miye. Bdewakantunwan hematanhan k'a Mniwakan Oyate heciya omawapi do. Waniyetu wikcemna yamni sam masakpe. Dakota iapi waunspewicakiya hemaca do. Dakota wicoh'an, Dakota odowan k'a Dakota iapi tewahinde do.

Hello my relatives. It is with a good heart that I greet all of you with a handshake. I am from the holy/sacred lake dwellere nation of Dakota (also claled Spirit Lakr Dwellers) and I am enrolled at the Holy/Sacred Water Dakota nation (also called Spirit Lake Dakota) in North Dakota. I am 36 winters. I am a Dakota language instructor and I cherish the Dakota way of life, music and language.

I am married with two little boys, 5 and 7, who are being raised both in Dakota and English. Aside from spending time with family and friends, I love music and movies
I am also in a band called Autumn http://www.myspace.com/autumn1994. We've been together for 12 years now and have two albums out. I play guitar (a 1962 Fender Jazzmaster!) and program drums. I play classical guitar and like Renaissance and Baroque music. I also love to sing traditional Dakota songs with a hand drum. Usually, I dislike singing, but singing in Dakota is different altogether!!p Home | Browse | Search | Invite | Film | Mail | Blog | Favorites | Forum | Groups | Events | Videos | Music | Comedy | Classifieds

My Interests

The Dakota language, traditional Dakota music, language immersion, decolonization, playing guitar-classical and other styles on electric, music, sci-fi, movies

Looking for vinyl and cds that I still don't have.

I'd like to meet:

Others who are interested in speaking/learning/teaching Dakota and talk about Indigenous language immersion methods.

People interested in decolonization methods.

Also, other classical guitarists or Goth guitarists and avid fans of late 70s early 80s new wave.

Music:

Goth, New Wave, Rockabilly, Surf Guitar, early Country, Industrial, EBM

I am also the guitarist for AUTUMN. We have two releases, THE HATING TREE and RETURN TO THE BREATH. I have been in a few bands but AUTUMN has been around the longest. We were once signed to TESS but are now looking for a new label

A few of the bands I love (in capitols are my favorites) ABC, Adam Ant, , The Alarm, Alphaville, And One, Arcana, A23, Blondie, Big Country, BIG SANDY AND HIS FLY-RITE BOYS, THE CHAMELEONS, CLAN OF XYMOX, EDDIE COCHRAN, THE COMSAT ANGELS, COVENANT, THE CULT (pre Electric Ocean), THE CURE (pre Desintigration), Depeche Mode, D E V O, DICK DALE, Echo and The Bunnymen, The Editors, ERASURE, Fad Gadget, FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM, A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS, JOHN FOXX, Frontline Assembly, Front 242, BUDDY HOLLY, HEAVEN 17, The Human League, IKON, The Killers, Killing Joke, Howard Jones, JOY DIVISION, Mephisto Waltz, THE MISSION UK, NEW ORDER, NEUROPA, NEW MUSIK, Nitzer Ebb, GARY NUMAN, ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK (aka OMD), BUCK OWENS, CARL PERKINS, ELVIS, RAY PRICE, Rock Kills Kid, THE SISTERS OF MERCY, Skinny Puppy, BRIAN SETZER -THE MAN!, She wants Revenge, STRAY CATS, This Mortal Coil, ULTRAVOX, THE VENTURES, GENE VINCENT, VISAGE, VNV NATION, X-MAL DEUTSCHLAND

Movies:

STAR WARS!! Star Trek, early Woody Allen, Evil Dead movies, Halloween movies (except for III), Ace Ventura, John Carpenter, Sci-fi

Television:

MONK!! Stargate, , Star Trek, Star Blazers, Battle of the Planets, cartoons, Spongebob, Simpsons, Ren and Stimpy, relic Hunter, Rosemary and Thyme,

Books:

Comics!! and books on decolonization and language.

Heroes:

Taoyateduta (Little crow) k'a Tatanka Iyotake(Sitting Bull) k'a Mahpiyaduta (Red Cloud). I'll bet you didn't know this Red Cloud declared war on the United States, for good reason, and won! The US retreated and later signed peace treaties with bands of the Oceti Sakowin (the Sioux) which they (The US) never meant to uphold.

My Blog

New guitar!!!! and this semester

Hey!  I got a new guitar!  It's a Gretsch Electromatic.  I have been wanting a Gretsch ever since I started to play guitar and also because Brian Setzer has one.  He is one of my b...
Posted by Cantemaza on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:28:00 PST

Graduate school

Hooray!  I was accepted into the second Languages and Cultures program at the University of Minnesota!!  I'm going to focus on language aquisition, language revitilization and immersion.&nbs...
Posted by Cantemaza on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:59:00 PST

Dakota place of learning

As a Dakot aman, I have had issues with wasicu academia for a while now.  As an undergrad, I became aware that oral history from our relatives long gone and still alive do not count in the colleg...
Posted by Cantemaza on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:54:00 PST