Arvol Looking Horse
is the 19th generation keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundleand holds the responsibility of spiritual leader among the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota People. He holds an honorary Doctorate from the University of South Dakota, and travels and speaks extensively on peace, environmental and native rights issues. He has been the recipient of several awards, including the Wolf Award of Canada for his dedicated work for peace. A skilled horseman, he shares his knowledge with the youth on the long distance rides that take place in South Dakota throughout the year |
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Japan -- (still being updated)
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Bob Gough
Bob is an attorney with
graduate degrees in sociology
and cultural anthropology,
specializing in cultural ecology,
and working with Indian Tribes
on cultural and natural
resource issues over the past
twenty years. He was the 1997
Indian Law Fellow at the University of South Dakota,
Vermillion, SD, specializing in
research on energy and
telecommunications utilities
and tribal jurisdiction. In 2000,
he was the El Paso Energy
Research Fellow at the Natural
Resources Law Center, CU-
Boulder, CO, working on
technical and policy issues
involved in connecting
reservation based renewable
generation on to the federal
grid. He is presently a visiting
professional at NREL's Wind
Technology Center to increase
outreach to Indian Country. |
Paula Horne
is an accomplished
traditional Dakota singer
and artist. Her musical
credits include opening for
the Indigo Girls, touring
Europe with Keith Secola
and other notible native
artists, and composing
and producing her own cd,
Songs of a Black Hills
Woman. She has been
involved in Indian rights for
over 20 years, organizing
the Run to Pipestone and
Thanksgiving Feast and is
one of the original
graduates of Red
Schoolhouse in Minnesota
and a subsequent board
member. She brought her
organizational skills to
World Peace and Prayer Day
in 1996 and has been
a moving force in creating
the events ever since. She
is also the mother of eight
children. | |
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