Wind Cave National Park hosts Indigenous Peoples Day event [Video]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA)—Wind Cave National Park is located on land with historical, cultural, and spiritual meaning to many Indigenous people, so they joined in on the Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations for the third year on Sunday.

“We have here a partnership with the Native neighbors and Tribal partners to demonstrate cultural art and history in order to demonstrate the continuing story of the living culture of our Native friends,” Rhonda Schier, acting superintendent of Wind Cave National Park said.

Visitors could hear a staged reading of a play in the Lakota language and engage in a question-and-answer session with playwright Markie Bear Eagle, watch dancers Starr Chief Eagle and Jasmine Bell and drummers perform and teach the importance of their art, as well as talk with various artists.

Schier said it is important for the park to put the event on due to the significance of the land.

“The …