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As the child of African-American and Native American parents, Kaylynn TwoTrees grew up hearing herself called half breed and mixed blood, terms which now, after many transforming experiences, have positive and powerful meanings for her. This book spanning the first fifty years of her life is the account of her extraordinary journey into an understanding of her rich and complex heritage. TwoTreess poignant, honest memoir tells of her birth to a Lakota father from a South Dakota reservation and a black mother from an urban neighborhood in Des Moines. She spent summers during her early childhood visiting the Pine Ridge reservation. Her grandmothers teachings from those days sustained her throughout the subsequent years. She always has remembered her grandmothers saying You going/coming back being. Grandmothers always singing you going. Grandchildren always singing you coming back. Somebody always singing you. After the murder of her mother, she was adopted by her black grandparents, who had worked hard to achieve a middle-class life. TwoTrees was later sent to a Catholic boarding school where she was the only person of color. After she gave birth to a baby girl, whom she released to the care of relatives, she set out on her own. The ensuing journey took her from Chicago to a life in Europe, where she lived for some years as a dancer and a manager of dance companies. Returning to the United States, she lived first in New York, and then in the Southwest, where she spent recent years learning about the landscape and the indigenous cultures and giving workshops and performances. TwoTrees, whose fascinating life journey has been filled with exhilarating as well as painful moments, writes movingly of her efforts to incorporate the diverse strands of her identity. Always carrying with her the love and lessons from her Indian grandmother and many others, she has come to understand the value of her multiple heritages. Kaylynn TwoTrees, scholar in residence in the schools of fine arts and business at Miami University, has studied with elders of many indigenous cultures, including Lakota, Kiowa, Choctaw (North America); Bakonga, Yoruba (Africa); and Maori (New Zealand).

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title:Somebody Always Singing You
author:TwoTrees, Kaylynn Sullivan.
publisher:University Press of Mississippi
isbn10 | asin:0878059814
print isbn13:9780878059812
ebook isbn13:9780585031927
language:English
subjectTwoTrees, Kaylynn Sullivan, Teton Indians--Mixed descent--Biography, African Americans--Biography, Racially mixed people--United States--Biography.
publication date:1997
lcc:E99.T34A3 1997eb
ddc:973/.04043
subject:TwoTrees, Kaylynn Sullivan, Teton Indians--Mixed descent--Biography, African Americans--Biography, Racially mixed people--United States--Biography.
Somebody Always
Singing You
Kaylynn Sullivan Twotrees
University Press of Mississippi Jackson
Copyright by Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence
and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines
for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
TwoTrees, Kaylynn Sullivan.
Somebody always singing you / Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-87805-981-4 (alk. paper)
1. TwoTrees, Kaylynn Sullivan.
2. Teton IndiansMixed descentBiography.
3. Afro-AmericansBiography.
4. Racially mixed peopleUnited StatesBiography.
I. Title.
E99.T34A4 1997
973.04043dc21
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Illustrations by Gail Della-Piana
Designed by Amanda K. Lucas
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Contents
BEING
Chapter One
Ihanbla/To Dream
3
Chapter Two
Hinhan Tanka/Great Owl
27
Chapter Three
Anakihme/Secret
39
Chapter Four
Pehin/Hair
50
BECOMING
Chapter Five
Wokiksuye/Live and Remember
65
Chapter Six
Iyeska/Mixed Blood, Interpreter
101
Chapter Seven
Cangleska Wakan/Sacred Hoop
122
Chapter Eight
Dancing between the World
132

Being
Page 3 Chapter One IhanblaTo Dream - photo 14
Page 3
Chapter One
Ihanbla/To Dream
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My grandmother thought I remembered everything she did, even the memories that were not ours. She wove the fragments of things she heard from my father before my birth into the fabric of her own dreaming. I added glimpses given by my mother and father when, in rare moments, they spoke of each other. So a story was born of their meeting and of my birth which suited the needs of each of us.
His mother, Mabel, sent a message to him. He didn't know who had written it for her and taken it to the post office. It said simply: "Your halfside is coming. I dreamt my grandchild, a girl baby. Hinhan Tanka." Only a vision would cause her to go through so much trouble to send him a message.
He touched the letter in his pocket as he watched his reflection in his shoes. The smell of shoe polish still lingered in his nose. From where he stood the reflection looked neat and strong. He looked like a soldiera sergeant. It made him feel like a warrior. It was this feeling that his father had revealed to him in his youth, and after boarding school he tried to regain it in the army.
The sun was bright, and he could smell the plants waking up to the warmth of the sun and the arrival of summer on the heels of spring.
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The smell was green and lush. His eyes took in the ivory magnolias in bloom, while his body soaked up the smell of new grass and the sound of children's laughter. He wanted to smile, but there was always a creeping discomfort when he remembered he was in Georgia. Fort Benning was an army base and he was a sergeant, but it was 1944, this was the South and his skin was brown.
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