coming into the arena, our women s fancy shawl dancers. make your way into the arena. when you are ready, make them dance. all right, one more time. good singing, dancing. all right. [applause] how are we looking over there, robert? good? all right, calling out our double bustle fancy dancer, mr. edgar santiago. all right. [applause] edgar, are you tired from last night? all right. when you are ready. make them dance. all right. [applause] thank you, mr. edgar santiago. [applause] all right, calling all our dancers into the arena one more time. a round dance. dancers, come on out. how about another hand for our dancers, singers? all right. rocket, city hall. here we go. all right, when you are ready, make them dance. all right. back in oklahoma, we have this round dance. [inaudible] we ve got northern style of round dance. one of our social dances, friendship dances. [inaudible] michael durant, come on out. join our dancers. aurora, come on out and then joined our dancers
singing loud, dance hard, all right. all right, one more time, let s give it up for our singers, our dancers, kicking it live here in san francisco city hall, all right. good to be here tonight. seeing all these shining indian faces once again. could i have all the native americans please remain standing? all native americans, stand up. how about a big round of applause for our native americans here for native american heritage month in november. all you non-indians, just look around. this is what custer saw at the little bighorn, and you know what he said to his men? where did all these indians come from? once again, welcome to the sixth annual nida american heritage month celebration here at city hall. annual native american heritage month cicelebration. i would like to thank our host for this month, native american aids project, the mayor s office, the san francisco native american health center, and kqed public broadcasting. how about a big round of applause for our hos
usually, it was about chest high. in order for our other dancers to dance. when you are ready, make them dance. that is your style, boys. dance hard. dance hard. this style of dance coming to us from the north. one of the most competitive styles of dance. all right, one more time, our men s and boys grass dancers. good dancing. all right. calling into the arena, our jingle dress dancers, make your way into the arena. all ages. michele, hi. gina. charlene harrison. all right. when you are ready, make them dance. all right, doubled the double beat. this style of dance once again coming to us from the north. the ojibwa, lakota, dancing throughout indian countries. again, one of our most competitive styles of dance. alright, one more time, give it out up for our jingle time dancers. [applause] coming into the arena, our women s fancy shawl dancers. make your way into the arena. when you are ready, make them dance. all right, one more time. good singing, dancing. all righ
when you are ready, make them dance. all right, one more time. good singing, dancing. all right. [applause] how are we looking over there, robert? good? all right, calling out our double bustle fancy dancer, mr. edgar santiago. all right. [applause] edgar, are you tired from last night? all right. when you are ready. make them dance. all right. [applause] thank you, mr. edgar santiago. [applause] all right, calling all our dancers into the arena one more time. a round dance. dancers, come on out. how about another hand for our dancers, singers? all right. rocket, city hall. here we go. all right, when you are ready, make them dance. all right. back in oklahoma, we have this round dance. [inaudible] we ve got northern style of round dance. one of our social dances, friendship dances. [inaudible] michael durant, come on out. join our dancers. aurora, come on out and then joined our dancers. nathan, come on out. those four honorees, joined our dancers. and good to see all th
our bets the war dancer. thank you. good singing, good dancing, all right, one more time. let s hear it for our singers and our dancers. looking good. all right, good job. all right. we are calling all our veterans to come up. veterans, you do not need to be native american. all our veterans, come on up. randy surely, where are you at? lead them out. randy shirley. i had someone asked me why we honor our veterans. one of the dumbest question is i have ever heard. i was offended when i heard it. i m still offended. you wonder why native people honor our veterans. because my elders said so. before r.e.m. men, our young women go off to serve in the military, back home, we have ceremony to protect them, to make share make sure that they return home safe to their family, to be a round their friends, to be able to sing and dance when they come back. we did the same period this arena represents a place of healing. they leave with their culture, their traditions, their language.