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Tillie Black Bear Sings Four Directions prayer in Michigan
 
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Added: 30-09-2008
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Tillie Black Bear is the executive director and one of the founders thirty one years ago of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society Inc WBCWS that serves the Lakota Sioux Rosebud Reservation in Mission SD She spoke to the Northern Michigan University 2008 Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity UNITED Conference on September 23 2008 This is the first of several videos about her talk in the Great Lakes Room of the NMU University center and a roundtable discussion that followed down the hall Black Bear is introduced to the northern Michigan audience and sings the Direction Song With traditional sage burning Black Bear sings as she and the crowd face the four directions West North East South and honor the Sky and Earth Her visit was coordinated by the NMU Center for Native American Studies and the nonprofit Turtle Island Project TIP in Munising MI The TIP has held several concerts and other events to raises funds for the WBCWS TIP Director Rev Dr Lynn Hubbard travels several times a year to the Rosebud Reservation Black Bear was greeted by Dr Judith Puncochar NMU Professor and an organizer of the annual UNITED Conference Tillie Black Bear was introduced by Grace Chaillier an NMU Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Native American Studies and a registered member of the Sicangu Lakota band of the Rosebud Sioux Please watch the other Turtle Island Project videos on Tillie Black Bears talk in northern Michigan Black Bear addresses the Lakota teen suicide crisis domestic violence people respecting people and many other important issues Black Bear is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota NationRosebud Sioux Tribe She is one of the leading experts on violence against women and children She is a founding mother of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence NCADV and a founder of the South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault SDCADVSA both in 1978 She was the first woman of color to chair NCADV and continues to sit on the SDCADVSA Board of Directors Black Bear presently serves on the advisory board of National Sexual Assault Resource Center Pennsylvania and is past member of the professional advisory board of the National Domestic Violence Hotline Austin TX Black Bear was the recipient of an award from the US Department of Justice for her work with victims of crime in April 1988 and in 1989 was one of President Bushs Point of Light In 1999 at the Millennium Conference on Domestic Violence in Chicago IL Black Bear was one of 10 individuals recognized as one of the founders of the domestic violence movement in the United States She was awarded an Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award in 2000 by President Clinton In May 2003 Black Bear was a recipient of the first annual LifeTime Achievement Award from LifeTime Television Black Bear was selected as one of 21 Leaders for the 21st Century award by Womens eNews in 2004 In 2005 she received an award from NOW She is retired from Sinte Gleska University as a parttime instructor in Human Services Casey Foundation as a licensed foster parent Currently Black Bear works as a teacher of 13 years teaching students taking a course on crosscultural ministry at Catholic Theological Union through Shalom Ministries out of Chicago IL Black Bear and colleague Sally Roesch Wagner PhD have completed a poster series on Lakota women elders on each of the nine Dakota Lakota Nations in South Dakota entitled Lakota Women Keepers of the Nation Another collaborative work is workshops on issues of Racism and Cultural Diversity She has worked as a therapist certified school counselor administrator college instructor and comptroller She holds a Master of Art 1974 from the University of South Dakota Vermillion SD Bachelor of Science 1971 Northern State University Aberdeen SD She has served on the St Francis Indian School Board of Directors St Francis SD and Sinte Gleska University Board of Regents Mission SD Black Bear is single mother of 3 girls grandmother of thirteen and survivor of domestic violence
Channels: Native Music  Everything Else  Interviews 
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