Native American Storytelling with Steve Tamayo

Join Sicangu Lakota artist and educator Steve Tamayo for this hands-on lecture about Traditional Games of the Plains Region. These games incorporate creation stories, language, virtue and values, specific roles and responsibilities of the people. Discover Stick games, Hand games, Moccasin games, Plum Pit, Tasiha Unpi deer bone game and more.

Steve Tamayo's family originates from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota and he draws upon his family history as a member of the Sicangu Lakota tribe. Tamayo currently leads study groups on his Reservation and travels to schools and museums throughout the country to study and teach historic methods of artifact construction and preservation. He is a regular consultant to the curatorial and conservation staff at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. He is an artist-in-residence and cultural consultant with Omaha Public Schools and has taught Native American Art History at Metropolitan Community College and University of Nebraska-Omaha.

This program is free and open to the public and was made possible with help from the Council Bluffs Public Library Foundation.