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Grandma: They, they used to have
Stick Dance, long time ago. Uh, when they, sick people
they had, you know. They give a dance, and they, special
dance they always have …. special dance, and uh, they,
they get well, so, and they want, only get to have dry
corn, so, they have to come tell my father first. First
thing, he’s going to sing, so they come after him, and
uh, they come tell him, before that, you know, because
they want him to come, so, and they all get ready go
down there where they going to have a dance, you know
they camp there, and uh, my father have to tell some
them first, so. So, and he get ready go over there that,
that day and they have dance that night. And he pick
out, uh, eight dancer, four singer, four of them sing,
and he one of them, that tell, he, he, he know all those
song, each one, they want him sing, so he sing that. So
they dance, one leader, special leader, they dance
around, and uh, them dance, go around, I don’t know how
many time go around, maybe, two, two, three times,
maybe. And uh, they sit down and they give all, two
waiter, uh, two man waits on them, they give all them
smoke. Give my father drink then singer, they all rest
of them give them smoke, because they dancing, eight
dancer. So, and one, one woman special, chief daughter,
she has, chief woman, daughter, special dancer. They
pick out her, they always make, pick me out, I was
little girl, but they, they pick me out too, so I dance
too, I dance with that woman, and when they get through,
when they get through smoking and they give water, and
uh, after they get through they dance again. They do
that four time, and uh, when they get through, they eat,
they use dry corn. Uh, they give, uh, my father bowl,
uh, dry corn and uh, and uh, singer give a bowl, eat all
together. And they give that, that special dancer, eight
of them, give them too, eat, four of them eats together
and the other ones eat together. And uh, oh, after they
get through and they carry that stick away that, uh, two
waiter, they put that stick away, put back where, where
they got it, you know. And uh, and uh, what corn left,
everybody wants it, and, oh, that woman give, uh, these
two eat dry corn and men, uh, they give little bit and
we eat that and then, where the corn left, everybody go
get it, like the Bread Dance, you know, what’s left
everybody have it. Shawnee, they all come too, Bird
Creek people, they all come down, come down there eat
the corn. So, when they get through, so, they, they
dance the stomp dance all night then. Just that special
dance, that’s all they have, when they get through they,
whatever they want to.
Kugee: Oh, yeah!
Grandma: Use to be dance over here at Quapaw Creek. |
