Heart Of All : Lakota Oral History Project
South Dakota Humanities Council
With a desire to preserve the oral history passed down from their Lakota elders, students at Little Wound School in Kyle, South Dakota, set out to record these stories for present and future generations.
Supported and funded by grants through the National Endowment for the Humanities(NEH), the Heart Of All Oral History Project is an audio series from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. This compilation shares the stories not typically found in textbooks but instead, the legends that were lived out by or shared with the Lakota elders.
Historically, the Lakota people used oral communication as one way to share the stories that shaped their values, beliefs, spiritual paths and overall way of life from generation to generation. Within this seven-part audio series, the Lakota oyate seek to preserve those stories in their traditional way: through spoken word.