Petaga Yuha Mani: Pete Catches Sr. - Oglala Lakota Medicine Man

This is a video for “Petaga Yuha Mani“ (“He Who Walks With Hot Coals“), Elder/Grandfather Pete S. Catches Sr., an Oglala Lakota Medicine Man, from Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. There are also videos in this channel for many North & South American Tribes & First Nations, Residential Schools, Chiefs, Elders, Historical Events, Indigenous Concerns, Quotes, Environmental Youth Activists.. and much more. ------------------------------------------------ “Petaga Yuha Mani“ (“He Who Walks With Hot Coals“),Elder/Grandfather Pete S. Catches Sr., is renown and beloved in Indian Country for bringing the Sundance out into the open in the early 1960’s, when it was still against the law to practice Indigenous American religions. This law remained active, until 1979, but, before this time, the US penalty for practising such religions and spiritualities resulted, in a ’ten year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine.“ Grandfather Pete was born int
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