MORE WACIPI

So, in advance, I promise that there is a lot more to reservation life than wacipis/pow wows. But I was lucky enough to be here on Pine Ridge last weekend for the largest one in the nation, including 350 dancers from all corners of the country, and I happen to be obsessed with the event. There were so many fancy dancers, chicken dancers, jingle dancers and traditional dancers, that the grand entry took half an hour just to get them into the grounds. Shoot. It was the cover story in Rapid City's Native Sun News:

Majority of what I'm doing is construction and community work, which in time I'll post about. For now, the drum groups are still echoing. These are from my Standing in Light Series. It's too bad I only have a mediocre digital out here.

I caught her face from our float in the pre-pow wow parade. We built the skeleton of an outhouse onto a truck bed, since makeshift plumbing is our popular product. Pretty much everyone showed up on the main drag.