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Participants will engage in various projects, including crafting rawhide belts and boxes, acrylic painting, knife sheaths, bows, and other weapons. The instructor will blend traditional teachings with modern techniques for each project. The program will also include harvesting a buffalo and utilizing all parts to create items such as headdresses, weapons, art, and toys.
Dates and Times, 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM:
February 10, 12, 24, & 26, 2025:
Harvest a buffalo and utilize every part during the workshops. Distribute the meat to participants and demonstrate the preparation of hide, meat, and bones. Explore traditional uses, including preparing for Taniga and crafting weapons.
March 3, 5, 17, 19, 24, & 26, 2025:
Continue preparing the hide, skull and begin the buffalo headdress making along with teaching why these headdresses were made. Continue preparing the hide. Research on design and history. Prepping the bones for knives, paintings, and toy making. Continue work on weapons.
April 7, 9, 21, & 23, 2025:
Work on finishing the hide and cutting it for more headdresses.
**This registration form is designed to better understand our participants. All of the information you provide is confidential and will only be shared with staff and instructors - not with participants or others. All data from these forms are entered into our data system and are not connected to your name in analysis and presentation of the results in our grant reports and applications. Please help us continue to be able to provide these trainings!
Oglala Lakota Artspace
Open for all ages! The Weekly Drum Circle hosted on Wednesdays aims to be a safe-space for anyone wanting to learn or practice singing on and around the drum. Hosted by singer and knowledge bearer Santee Witt, the drum circle welcomes anyone who can make it to the Oglala Lakota Artspace on Wednesday evenings from 7-8pm.
This workshop series will be held every Wednesday and will focus on singing Lakota songs on the drum, wether they be traditional songs, prayer songs, sundae songs, powwow songs, or other styles of singing on a group-drum and or/ hand-drum. The teachings and meanings behind these songs will be discussed. A safe place will be held for all ages of participants to receive the opportunity to learn how to sing.
From 7-8pm, attendees of the online Wicaglata Circle via Zoom are able to connect with Tiana, ask her questions, and listen/learn as she gives various lessons and stories about various Lakota songs that Wicaglata/Women singers would sing in ceremony/prayer, social occassions, and every day life.
Tiana Spotted Thunder is a Lakota recording artist from Oglala, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Wicaglata Learning Circle offers a safe space for winyan relatives interested in learning to sing or would like a space to practice singing. Attendees in this women-only circle will get to learn about Wicaglata protocol, societal importance and more!
Virtual/Online
This workshop series will focus on sewing star pattern baby bags, pot holders, and pillows leading up to creating Star Quilts. Traditional stories and teachings about the historical and cultural significance of stars, star knowledge, and star quilts will be shared with participants as they create their pieces.
Dates:
Sunday February 2, 2025, 11:00am - 3:00pm
Monday February 3, 2025 4:00pm - 8:00pm
Sunday March 2, 2025 11:00am - 3:00pm
Monday March 3, 2025, 4:00pm - 8:00pm
Sunday March 30, 2025 11:00am - 3:00pm
Monday March 31, 2025, 4:00pm - 8:00pm
Sunday April 13, 2025 11:00am - 3:00pm
Sunday May 4, 2025 11:00am - 3:00pm
Sunday May 18, 2025 11:00am - 3:00pm
**This registration form is designed to better understand our participants. All of the information you provide is confidential and will only be shared with staff and instructors - not with participants or others. All data from these forms are entered into our data system and are not connected to your name in analysis and presentation of the results in our grant reports and applications. Please help us continue to be able to provide these trainings!
Oglala Lakota Art Space
Participants will be guided through traditional self-care with natural medicines and methods that women can use to support one another. Demonstrations of the use of self care products, for hand-made items such as lotions, salves, soaps, teas, pastries and bread will occur while sharing culture knowledge. As demonstrations occur participants will create take-home kits to share with relatives.
Dates:
**This registration form is designed to better understand our participants. All of the information you provide is confidential and will only be shared with staff and instructors - not with participants or others. All data from these forms are entered into our data system and are not connected to your name in analysis and presentation of the results in our grant reports and applications. Please help us continue to be able to provide these trainings!
Oglala Lakota Art Space
Provide Participants with knowledge of Peyote Stitch, Loomwork, Flat Stitch and Lazy Stitch. Participants will choose their projects they wish to bead including moccasins, turtles, lizards, chains, medallions, pouches and bags.
Dates & Times are Sunday's 11:00 AM-3:00 PM and Monday's 4:00 PM-8:00 PM:
Beading 101:
Lazy Stitch:
Peyote Stitch:
Completing Flat & Lazy Stitch Projects:
Please have participants take into consideration any projects they want to enter for the art exhibition.
Oglala Lakota Art Space
Participants will create 4” round cakes and 10” round cookies, learn how to apply icing, and decorate the cakes and cookies. Session one will cover cake decorating 101; session two, cupcake decorating; session three, cooking decorating/icing; session four, cookie cake decorating.
Dates:
Sunday, February 16, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Sunday, March 16, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Sunday, April 13, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Sunday, May 11 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Open for all ages! The Weekly Drum Circle hosted on Wednesdays aims to be a safe-space for anyone wanting to learn or practice singing on and around the drum. Hosted by singer and knowledge bearer Santee Witt, the drum circle welcomes anyone who can make it to the Oglala Lakota Artspace on Wednesday evenings from 7-8pm.
This workshop series will be held every Wednesday and will focus on singing Lakota songs on the drum, wether they be traditional songs, prayer songs, sundae songs, powwow songs, or other styles of singing on a group-drum and or/ hand-drum. The teachings and meanings behind these songs will be discussed. A safe place will be held for all ages of participants to receive the opportunity to learn how to sing.
From 7-8pm, attendees of the online Wicaglata Circle via Zoom are able to connect with Tiana, ask her questions, and listen/learn as she gives various lessons and stories about various Lakota songs that Wicaglata/Women singers would sing in ceremony/prayer, social occassions, and every day life.
Tiana Spotted Thunder is a Lakota recording artist from Oglala, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Wicaglata Learning Circle offers a safe space for winyan relatives interested in learning to sing or would like a space to practice singing. Attendees in this women-only circle will get to learn about Wicaglata protocol, societal importance and more!
Virtual/Online
Participants will learn the creation stories and the historical content of quillwork pre-1800s. They will also learn to identify plants for natural plant dyes. Participants will learn the quillwork techniques of platting and back stitch/sewing quills.
Dates:
Sunday, February 9, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Sunday, February 23, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Sunday, March 9, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Sunday, March 23, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Sunday, April 6, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Sunday, April 20, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Sunday, May 11 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
**This registration form is designed to better understand our participants.
All of the information you provide is confidential and will only be shared with staff and instructors - not with participants or others. All data from these forms are entered into our data system and are not connected to your name in analysis and presentation of the results in our grant reports and applications. Please help us continue to be able to provide these trainings!
Oglala Lakota Artspace
What You’ll Learn:
Granny Squares: Learn to create the classic square motif, which can be used individually or joined to form larger projects.
Hats: Discover how to crochet simple and stylish hats, including working in the round and adding finishing touches like pom-poms or embellishments.
Blanket Making: Understand how to combine your granny squares into blankets or learn seamless techniques for crocheting larger blankets from scratch.
By the end of the class, you’ll have the skills to create custom crochet pieces, from cozy accessories to stunning home décor. Whether you’re a beginner or looking to refine your crochet skills, this class is perfect for anyone ready to craft beautiful, handmade items. Join us and stitch your way to creativity and relaxation!
Dates and Times, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM:
Sunday’s, February 9 & 23, 2025: Class 1
Class 1: Basics of crochet - chain, single crochet stitch, understanding crochet terminology, UK vs US terms - (activity: granny square)
Class 2: Half double crochet, double crochet stitch, how to follow a pattern (activity: making a hat)
Sunday’s, March 9 & 23, 2025
Class 3: Magic ring, working in rounds (activity: stuffed animal)
Class 4: Crochet-along - start larger project (blanket) Following patterns, learning more complex stitches
Sunday’s, April 6 & 20, 2025
Class 5: Crochet along blanket - next segment
Class 6: Crochet along blanket, continued
Sunday’s, May 4 & 18, 2025
Class 7: Crochet along blanket, continued
Class 8: Crochet along blanket - Complete
Participants will engage in various projects, including crafting rawhide belts and boxes, acrylic painting, knife sheaths, bows, and other weapons. The instructor will blend traditional teachings with modern techniques for each project. The program will also include harvesting a buffalo and utilizing all parts to create items such as headdresses, weapons, art, and toys.
Dates and Times, 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM:
February 10, 12, 24, & 26, 2025:
Harvest a buffalo and utilize every part during the workshops. Distribute the meat to participants and demonstrate the preparation of hide, meat, and bones. Explore traditional uses, including preparing for Taniga and crafting weapons.
March 3, 5, 17, 19, 24, & 26, 2025:
Continue preparing the hide, skull and begin the buffalo headdress making along with teaching why these headdresses were made. Continue preparing the hide. Research on design and history. Prepping the bones for knives, paintings, and toy making. Continue work on weapons.
April 7, 9, 21, & 23, 2025:
Work on finishing the hide and cutting it for more headdresses.
**This registration form is designed to better understand our participants. All of the information you provide is confidential and will only be shared with staff and instructors - not with participants or others. All data from these forms are entered into our data system and are not connected to your name in analysis and presentation of the results in our grant reports and applications. Please help us continue to be able to provide these trainings!
Oglala Lakota Artspace
Pre survey will be completed to determine the participants knowledge of sewing.Participants without any knowledge of sewing will learn how to use a sewing machine and all sewing accessory instruments. Participants with basic knowledge of sewing will familiarize themselves with the sewing machines and sewing accessory instruments. All participants will pick sewing projects offered in this series. The topics offered for the 2025 Sewing circle are: Ribbon shirts and skirts, Lakota Women's dance regalia appliquéd leggins, mocs, yoke/cape, hair ties, belts. T/inipi or Lakota Traditional dresses, men's Lakota dance appliquéd side drops, cuffs, leg and arm bands, mocs. Shawls both ribbon and fringe. Women's Lakota dance leggins, mocs, belts, yoke/cape, hair ties. Pre-made kits will be provided.
Dates and all times are 4:00pm- 8:00pm:
*Intro to Sewing:
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
*Mens Lakota dance regalia appliquéd parts:
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
*Womens Lakota dance regalia appliquéd parts:
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
*Ribbon Skirts:
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
*Womens Lakota dance regalia appliquéd parts:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
*Ribbon Shirts:
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Location:
**This registration form is designed to better understand our participants. All of the information you provide is confidential and will only be shared with staff and instructors - not with participants or others. All data from these forms are entered into our data system and are not connected to your name in analysis and presentation of the results in our grant reports and applications. Please help us continue to be able to provide these trainings!
Oglala Lakota Art Space
Participants will engage in various projects, including crafting rawhide belts and boxes, acrylic painting, knife sheaths, bows, and other weapons. The instructor will blend traditional teachings with modern techniques for each project. The program will also include harvesting a buffalo and utilizing all parts to create items such as headdresses, weapons, art, and toys.
Dates and Times, 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM:
February 10, 12, 24, & 26, 2025:
Harvest a buffalo and utilize every part during the workshops. Distribute the meat to participants and demonstrate the preparation of hide, meat, and bones. Explore traditional uses, including preparing for Taniga and crafting weapons.
March 3, 5, 17, 19, 24, & 26, 2025:
Continue preparing the hide, skull and begin the buffalo headdress making along with teaching why these headdresses were made. Continue preparing the hide. Research on design and history. Prepping the bones for knives, paintings, and toy making. Continue work on weapons.
April 7, 9, 21, & 23, 2025:
Work on finishing the hide and cutting it for more headdresses.
**This registration form is designed to better understand our participants. All of the information you provide is confidential and will only be shared with staff and instructors - not with participants or others. All data from these forms are entered into our data system and are not connected to your name in analysis and presentation of the results in our grant reports and applications. Please help us continue to be able to provide these trainings!
Oglala Lakota Artspace
Open for all ages! The Weekly Drum Circle hosted on Wednesdays aims to be a safe-space for anyone wanting to learn or practice singing on and around the drum. Hosted by singer and knowledge bearer Santee Witt, the drum circle welcomes anyone who can make it to the Oglala Lakota Artspace on Wednesday evenings from 7-8pm.
This workshop series will be held every Wednesday and will focus on singing Lakota songs on the drum, wether they be traditional songs, prayer songs, sundae songs, powwow songs, or other styles of singing on a group-drum and or/ hand-drum. The teachings and meanings behind these songs will be discussed. A safe place will be held for all ages of participants to receive the opportunity to learn how to sing.
