{"id":9908,"date":"2020-03-13T14:49:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T19:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/indigenous-matriarchs-rising-celebrates-womens-history-month\/"},"modified":"2020-03-13T14:49:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T19:49:53","slug":"indigenous-matriarchs-rising-celebrates-womens-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/indigenous-matriarchs-rising-celebrates-womens-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Indigenous Matriarchs Rising\u2019 celebrates Women\u2019s History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A member of the Two Kettle Band of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, LeBeau served as a nurse caring for those wounded at Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion. She later served on the front lines during the Battle of the Bulge. LeBeau celebrated her 100th birthday in October, 2019. LeBeau will headline the celebration \u201cIndigenous Matriarchs Rising\u201d in honor of Women\u2019s History Month at Birdcage Bookstore on March 14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

RAPID CITY \u2013 Marcella LeBeau, the oldest living tribal member on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, is set to headline a celebration of the annual nationwide Women\u2019s History Month here on March 14.
\nThe event \u201cIndigenous Matriarchs Rising\u201d offers an admission-free talking circle discussion on \u201cdefining the roll of a matriarch in our communities,\u201d according to host Lily Mendoza, social entrepreneur and owner of the Bird Cage Book Store and Mercantile, where it is scheduled from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
\nNative Sun News Today Columnist Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is slated to join LeBeau. Award-winning artist and poet Sandy Swallow-Morgan is invited, as well as others distinguished elders and guests.
\nIn addition, mental health counselor Carla Douglas has scheduled a presentation and workshop from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. entitled \u201cLife and Hope after Trauma.\u201d
\nLeBeau, 100, served as a nurse at the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. She is a member of the Two Kettle Band from Eagle Butte. A former Tribal Council member, she received the National Congress of American Indians\u2019 Special Recognition Award in February.
\nCook-Lynn, 89, a member of the Sisseton Santee Dakota Band raised on the Crow Creek Indian Reservation, is a writer, poet, and professor emerita of Native American Studies at Eastern Washington University.
\nSwallow-Morgan, 70, is an Oglala Lakota tribal member with Northern Cheyenne and Rosebud roots, is known for wood-block prints and painting that have garnered recognition at Native CAIRNS and Indian art markets nationwide. Her blogging with \u201cInsights of a Lakota Unci\u201d has led her to expand into digital forums.
\nDouglas, a First Nations of British Columbia woman and proprietor of Douglas Mental Health Services, shares her professional experience educating on issues of LGBTQ\/transgender and two-spirit perspectives, suicide, sexual abuse, sex trafficking, grief, bereavement, and crisis intervention.
\nShe is offering counselors \u201cto chat and support\u201d community members affected by these issues.
\nMusic, with Cheyenne River Sioux tribal member Mendoza and singer-songwriter Linda Boyle, is part of the agenda, as well as readings, poetry, art, and commemorative t-shirt sales.
\nThe Bird Cage Book Store specializes in Northern Plains Native American authors and titles. To open it, Mendoza applied her ample experience as a bookseller at Borders in Rapid City and Word Carrier Trading Post on Indian reservations.
\nThe store hosts book signings, book club meetings, poetry and other community events. It is home to the annual June \u201cIndigenous Writers Festival\u201d and provided the impetus for former Rapid City Mayor Steve Allender\u2019s proclamation of June 24 as Indigenous Authors Day.
\nIt is located at the landmark Aby\u2019s Feed and Seed former grain elevator adjacent to Racing Magpie Art Gallery, 406th Fifth St.<\/p>\n

(Contact Talli Nauman at talli.nauman@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

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A member of the Two Kettle Band of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, LeBeau served as a nurse caring for those wounded at Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion. She later served on the front lines during the Battle of the Bulge. LeBeau celebrated her 100th birthday in October, 2019. <\/p>\n

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