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Lakota Medicine Man Pete Catches: "Walks With Fire"

Art In Motion presents Lakota Medicine Man Pete Catches: "Walks With Fire"    • Art In Motion presents Lakota Medicine Man...   Pete S. Catches Sr. (Petaga Yuha Mani) 37th generation Lakota medicine man and his son, Peter V. Catches (Zintkala Oyate) 38th generation Lakota medicine man. Peter’s grandfather, from his mother’s side, played a big part in raising him. A survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre, he passed away while Peter was in the eigth grade. This wise man who never spoke English or went to school, had a profound effect on his life. Oceti Wakan (Sacred Fireplace) is a vision shared by two Lakota medicine men in response to events that have devastated their people over the past several generations and is focused on creating a place “for the healing of the family as a whole by rekindling Lakota spiritual values and culture.” In other words, bring them back to honor themselves as Lakota in today’s world without the shame that was given to them as children in the past two generations (Pete and Peter’s) of residential schools. In this hostile environment, the mandate was to “kill” the Indian but save the man. These children were put in Catholic residential schools on their reservation at the age of five. They were only allowed to go home during the summer even though they only lived a few miles away. They were punished for speaking the only language they knew, Lakota, and for valuing anything that was Lakota, such as a boy coming to school with long hair after the summer (e.g., his head would be shaved as a punishment). What this translated to as an adult was “shame” for being Lakota even though their intellect knew there was no shame, as well as the loss of parenting skills, as children learn by what they see – all resulting in a dysfunctional society. Now we have one of the lowest life expectancies: 45 years of age for a man, in the world; major alcoholism and drug addiction; 70% of our students do not graduate; and 83% unemployment. These two Lakota medicine men have spent their lives bringing the Lakota culture back to their people. A healer and teacher, Petaga Yuha Mani (He Who Walks With Hot Coals) was credited with bringing the traditional Sundance ceremony out into the open among the Lakota, the most sacred of all Lakota ceremonies. All Native American religions were against the law until 1979 in the United States, with the threat of 10 years of imprisonment. So it took much courage for Pete to bring this most sacred ceremony back to his people. In 1964 he was named Sundance Chief by the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council, the only such distinction in tribal history. He died in 1993 leaving his son, Peter, to complete their work and to do what they believe will help heal their people. They lived on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota throughout their lives. For decades, Pete and his son Peter healed and instructed both Natives and non-Natives on and off the reservation. Peter has put on and conducted 40 consecutive years of the Spotted Eagle Sundance near his home, the longest running Sundance in Lakota country. Both of their lives have been full of helping their people by doing numerous healing ceremonies, pipe fasts, and other Lakota ceremonies conducted to help the people. Pete, with the help of his son, brought back Sitting Bull’s Buffalo Sundance to the Hunkpapa Lakota at the Standing Rock Reservation and helped secure Sundances on other Lakota reservations throughout the Dakotas and Minnesota. Now it is hard to count all the Sundances on all the reservations.