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Minneapolis – 10 July 2024
1. Various people singing and playing Native American drum in gymnasium
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Lumhe Sampson, Hoop dance instructor, Minneapolis American Indian Center:
“The sound that we hear in our womb is our mother’s heartbeat. And that’s just like the beat of a drum. And that’s why we say the drum represents the heartbeat of the earth, that represents the heartbeat that we all share.”
3. Various people dancing, singing and playing Native American drum in gymnasium
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Cheryl Secola, Minneapolis American Indian Center program director:
“We believe that our DNA has memory. We as like our ancestors, you know, they always use the drums. So, you know, maybe you may be separated from that way of life for so many years and all of a sudden you hear the drum, it brings you back to something you probably don’t remember. So that’s why it’s such an emotional thing for a lot of people.”
5. Man recording dancing on cell phone
6. Kids dancing
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Lumhe Sampson, Hoop dance instructor, Minneapolis American Indian Center:
“While most of us are in modern clothes and shoes and things like that, we are still tapping into that ancient tradition of connecting with each other, connecting with ourselves, but also connecting with the Earth itself through that resonation, through that heartbeat, through that drum.”
8. People dancing
9. Wide pan of dancing and drumming
10. Adult and child drumming together
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Lumhe Sampson, Hoop dance instructor, Minneapolis American Indian Center:
“Indigenous people have been here for thousands of years and only in the last 200 where we are not allowed to practice, exercise our songs, dances, cultures, languages.”
12. Men drumming
13. Wide, people dancing
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Cheryl Secola, Minneapolis American Indian Center program director:
"I really feel positive when I see families coming together, maybe grandmas with, you know, mom, your grandma, you know how many generations you know, I see all them together coming to these things and learning some cultural, even language that makes me hopeful and it makes me happy.”
15. Men drumming in circle
STORYLINE:
The beat of a drum and echoing voices filled the gymnasium at the Minneapolis American Indian Center on a Wednesday evening in July. The weekly drum and dance events provide many Native people to reconnect with their identity and culture.
“We believe that our DNA has memory,” said Cheryl Secola, who directs language programs at the center. “We as like our ancestors, you know, they always use the drums. So, you know, maybe you may be separated from that way of life for so many years and all of a sudden you hear the drum, it brings you back to something you probably don’t remember. So that’s why it’s such an emotional thing for a lot of people.”
Songs and drums at the center of social events like powwows are different from those that are crucial instruments in spiritual ceremonies, for example for healing, and that often contain invocations to the Creator, said Anton Treuer, an Ojibwe language and culture professor at Bemidji State University.
But students say the move showed how little their culture and spirituality is understood. It also brought back traumatic memories of their being forcibly suppressed, not only at boarding schools like the one the Wilsons’ grandmother attended, but more generally from public spaces.
In Minneapolis, dancers – from toddlers to adults in traditional shawls – circled the gym to the drum’s beat.
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