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Grandmother Margaret Behan: Cheyenne / Arapaho - Red Spider Woman - Teaching Traditional Beliefs

By Margaret Behan — 2018

This is a series of video clips & wisdom, from "Red Spider Woman" - Neiwoo (Arapaho) - E'škemane (na poss) - Cheyenne. Grandmother Margaret Behan is a world-renowned Spiritual Leader, Traditional Medicine Person., Member of The International Council Of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. See more...

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Who Owns the Land?

No one disputes that decades ago local Indians were unfairly deprived of hundreds of thousands of acres that were guaranteed to them in perpetuity by solemn treaty; yet no one can agree about what should be done to correct that injustice today.

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Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
1988
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Louise Erdrich on Her Personal Connection to Native Peoples’ Fight for Survival

Erdrich's novel, The Night Watchman, was inspired by her grandfather, who chaired the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and fought a Congressional initiative to move native people off their land.

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2020
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The Night Watchman

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C.

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Louise Erdrich
2020
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