HIGHLIGHTS & RESOURCES FROM ILI LAKOTA INTENSIVE

Goals for the ILI Lakota Intensive

1. Articulate the purpose, origin & intercultural approach of ILI as a grounding for the overall cohort experience.
2. Offer curriculum across all 4 core topics (Who We Are, Where We Are, How We Work, Why We Matter) and the range of communities that anchor ILI.
3. Offer intentional space for relationship-building & connection with the cohort balanced with intellectual & skill-building work.
4. Offer a deep-dive experience into the Lakota / Indigenous / Native sense of place and people.
5. Offer opportunities for local community and others to engage with ILI cohort & content

WEDNESDAY, SEPT 12

• Welcome & Orientation
• Community Dinner

THURSDAY, SEPT 13

• Cohort Sharing

• Afternoon Session at Pe’Sla sacred site
  LAKOTA EMERGENCE: Who We Are & How We Work with Jace DeCory (See Resources below)

• Evening Dinner
  REVITALIZING NATIVE AMERICAN CUISINE: Who We Are & How We Work with Sean Sherman, Sioux Chef

Menu

• Northern Tamale with Smoked Mushrooms with Rosehip Sauce & Pea Shoots
• Cedar and Maple Syrup drink
• Grilled Turnip, Watercress, Smoked Trout (or Field Mushroom) in Roasted Crabapple Broth
• Cedar Braised Bison with Maple Salt (or Roasted Squash) and Three Sisters (corn, beans & squash) with Wild Plum and Choke Cherry Sauce
• Wild Rice and Sunflower Seed Tart with Squash Puree, Fresh Fruit & Mint

Recommended ReadingThe Lakotas and the Black Hills by Jeffrey Ostler
Zuya, Life’s Journey – Oral Teachings From Rosebud by Albert White Hat, Sr.
Fools Crow by Thomas E. Mails
Standing In The Light by Severt Young Bear & R.D. Theisz
Oglala Religion, by William K. Powers
Culture & Customs of the Sioux Indians by Gregory Gagnon
The Sacred Pipe by Joseph Epes Brown
Lakota Belief and Ritual and Lakota Myth by James R. Walker
The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living by Joseph M. Marshall III
Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition by John G. Neihardt
Walking in the Sacred Manner by Mark St. Pierre
Voices in the Stones: Life Lessons from the Native Way by Kent Nerburn
Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming by Winona LaDuke (Black Hills chapter)
Where The Lightning Strikes: Lives of America Indian Sacred Places by Peter Nabokov (Black Hills chapter)American Indian Places: A Historical Guidebook by Frances H. Kennedy (essays on Mato Tipila, Mato Paha +)

My Indian Boyhood by Luther Standing Bear

Speaking Of Indians by Ella Cara Deloria

The World We Used to Live In: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men by Vine Deloria Jr.

Additional Resources
http://geometryofplace.com/bkhills.html
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/we-walk-our-ancestors-sacredness-black-hills
Bureau of Indian Affairs places sacred site in Black Hills in trust

http://pluralism.org/religions/native-american-traditions/issues-for-native-peoples/sacred-lands-and-treaty-rights-the-black-hills/

http://sacredland.org/black-hills-united-states/

The Sacred Black Hills An Ethnohistorical Review – UNL Digital …
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2954&context…

https://www.nps.gov/wica/learn/historyculture/the-home-of-the-bison-full-text-an-ethnographic-and-ethnohistorical-study-of-traditional-cultural-affiliations-to-wind-cave-national-park.htm
(Report by Dr. Patricia Albers for the NPS)

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples:
Website (there are different downloadable versions in different languages): https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html
Toolkit: https://internationalfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/UNDRIP-Toolkit-Framework_2014.pdf
Reclaiming Native Truth Guide for Allies
https://www.reclaimingnativetruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/MessageGuide-Allies-screen.pdf