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Native American Songs and Winter Traditions: Jerome Kills Small
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Jerome Kills Small, Red Robin, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota is Oglala Sioux. He will sing a variety of songs and will discuss the winter traditions of the Oglala Sioux. people.
Jerome has many talents and as a traditional storyteller and oral historian, he presents workshops for both adults and children. Presently he portrays Tecumseh and Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman, the first medicine doctor of the Lakota people, for the Nebraska and South Dakota Speaker’s Bureau and Chautauqua Series. He knows the origins and stories behind the flag song, patriotic songs of the Lakota, and ceremonial songs. He is an arena director, conducts ceremonies, and explains cultural protocol. He makes drums and drum sticks, does feather work, made the staff for the first sun dance at Vermillion and constructs sweat lodges. Jerome and his wife grow and harvest foods and medicines in the Lakota tradition.