Muscogee Creek Festival - 2 Stomp Dancing

Mvskoke Etvlwv: Muscogee Creek Festival is a celebration by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma of its tribal history, heritage and culture. This segment focuses on a demonstration of the Stomp Dance. The Stomp Dance is a set of traditional social and religious dances brought across the Trail of Tears from the Muscogee (Creek) ancestral homelands in Georgia and Alabama.
The festival was webcast and recorded in the Potomac Atrium of the National Museum of the American Indian on November 15, 2014.

[@BmakinFilm]

Thank you - this is beautiful and I love the swingin' rhythms of the shakers!

[@Ahnishinabe]

These here dances make my heart nearly burst with pride and satisfaction. The tao of the entire universe is up in these dances, this is a great introduction. Many generations ago these dances were done for days and days. I attended one as a younger man that was 9 days. The enrgy is supperb and ready to go, you carry it with you for days. Tribal Kung Fu, Stomp The Earth and Pass Through A Wall of Iron...

[@sarahschooley8741]

My People!! Totally Awesome. Good explanation Mekko!! Sarah Schooley Duck Creek Grounds

[@sandcreekboyz4198]

You go to duck creek?

[@victoriahinton5767]

It's beautiful. Thank you

[@holleytytor8571]

That was awesome

[@mikeellis7286]

I was the size of the small ones on my first Pow wow meeting in Pensacola FL with my Grandparents. 1964

[@unyieldingcreek1]

Love seeing the dancing!!

[@2020dezz]

I love it❤

[@karlanemilbuzz5636]

I love it I miss going

[@veheeo720]

Simply Splendid Thank You for sharing mitakuye oyasin!

[@bonchance9241]

thankyou to the Indian Nations for sharing their Traditions and Culture GOD BLESS you all.

[@YouJustGotDunhamd]

dont call us indians, natives are better

[@kristinehoward7425]

Such a beautiful dance. It was wonderful!

[@BWynn-eb8qn]

Where was the dancing? I must have missed it.

[@karlieryal637]

When they go around in the circle and the men sing and the women shake shells it called a stomp dance. I’m a member of the Muscogee Creek and we consider this as one of our most valued traditions

[@BWynn-eb8qn]

@@karlieryal637 so question. Do you have so called African Americans in your family? What area is your family from?

[@karlieryal637]

No I have no African American line in my family. I currently live 15 minutes from the capital of the Muscogee Creek nation but my family line goes back to Alabama before the time of the removals

[@BWynn-eb8qn]

@@karlieryal637 have you ever heard of $5 Indians????

[@kristinehoward7425]

How incredible that I was able to see a part of my newly discovered heritage! I hope there will be more videos, and documentaries. Thank you for sharing, I hope to learn more!

[@SmashinAdams]

17:40 - I don't believe Spaniards taught Mvskokian tribes metal work. We had had coppersmiths & silversmiths that made medallions & parts for smoking pipes, etc. We already had those metals on Turtle Island.

[@ilazarka]

the conquistadores did not teach anything, they stole, murdered ....without never begging pardon

[@SmashinAdams]

@@ilazarka True; So did we, ankana. Chi haklo la chike.

[@ilazarka]

@@SmashinAdams shall you translate "chi haklo la chike" is it in muskongee ?

[@SmashinAdams]

@@ilazarka - My Tribes' language (Chahta) is muskogean. Loosely translated, I said, "Talk to you later". "Ankana", means, "My friend".

[@ilazarka]

@@SmashinAdams ok .. thanks to you. you will talk to me later if you want ..

[@knapper2000]

Mvto Edwin for the oratory. This is becoming a lost art. Even though you might speak the Mvskoke language like I do. It takes a certain art to be able to speak in an oratory fashion like Edwin just spoke. This oratory is only spoken at ceremonial grounds.

[@leethunderhill7002]

Edwin a life long friend is very good at oratory. His grand father was a famed medicine man.

[@fredarente]

He sounds like an Auctioneer rather than simply speaking

[@jamessatterlee]

He’s a great speaker. I’ve heard his oratory in person, and he’s very good at traditional storytelling.

[@Pokey-wi1lv]

What does the turning towards the center & the arm movements signify?

[@makaylaforeman5879]

it means their talking to the fire, usually

[@virginiaeasterling4347]

Awsome. Dance

[@Joyouslysweet]

How do I get closer to my culture? My mother’s family is muscogee and black. They’re from Blakely but I live in Tallahassee now and don’t know where to go.

[@maurlife6095]

What would you like to know. I can send you to many places. Many directions in and around Tallahassee or the internet

[@Joyouslysweet]

@@maurlife6095 I’ve been working with Afrakan spirituality for a few months now and I know that’s not my only make up so I wanted to start paying homage to my indigenous ancestors as well even though may not know them directly. I want to find my guides and bring myself closer to them.

[@Joyouslysweet]

@@maurlife6095 I haven’t had a reading in 21 plus days, so I’m not even sure what my next steps are or where I should be heading right now. I’m just letting things flow the best way I know how.

[@maurlife6095]

@@Joyouslysweet Given that you’re interested in Aboriginal history a good start is books coupled with physical travel. Depending on what you’re looking for you can one buy the books from amazon and start reading and/or travel around Tallahassee which will lead you to various tribal lands. A good place to go is to “Loveletch mounds” take another person with you another mound is “Jackson mounds” these will link your Afrikan and Aborigine lineage. A book which addresses both indigenous and Afrikan history is “Florida’s Negro War by Dr. Anthony E. Dixon” he was a FAMU professor as well which is located in Tallahassee.

[@Joyouslysweet]

@UCGY63ha_l70y4YRdI4AN_xA yes I was born and raised in Tallahassee I know all about FAMU and thank you so much for this information

[@bravopapa6631]

Would anyone mind telling me how to observe the time of the green corn so that I can tell my daughters? My father was native but never raised me and my sister knowing the traditions. Any help would be a great help and so appreciated.

[@michaelhaney9497]

Bravo Papa like mild if July

[@alexandrahenderson4368]

Can relate. My grandma was taken from her tribe.

[@jeanetteh.8393]

@@alexandrahenderson4368 my grandfather never shared his traditions.... btw we have the same last name you and I

[@alexandrahenderson4368]

@@jeanetteh.8393 my last name comes from who ever owned my family during slavery.

[@jeanetteh.8393]

@@alexandrahenderson4368 mine too, it's weird because it's known to be irish but we don't know of any irish in our family. I think it was just when they were going down the list and giving them

[@Celestecass]

Nice dancing.

[@jacobtiger3843]

My father's cousin gorge tiger ago

[@micahcloud7901]

I dont ever see these people at stompdance besides like two

[@BadfingerBoogieBarb]

That would entirely be your own failing.

[@micahcloud7901]

+BadfingerBoogieBarb yeah I guess it is cause I actually go to the real dances and not indoors and who are you telling me it's my falling you probably of learned about our culture in a book in a class

[@BadfingerBoogieBarb]

It's your "FAILING", not "falling. I recognize well over half a dozen people in the video, including respected elders Sam and David Proctor and Edwin Marshall. Your childish arrogance and disrespect is appalling.

[@micahcloud7901]

Oh yeah well I've always been told by my elders that your not supposed to go into indoors cause all that is for show if you really wanted to learn go to a real dance

[@micahcloud7901]

And I'm sure all these people have been told not to go to indoors and they didn't listen

[@kimberleydawn2445]

mvto 😀

[@kvhvtke1935]

Yvhiketv here Mahet os...

[@fetengineer9151]

Okay, I'm trying very hard to be respectful... but damn, I don't get it... "why" on every dance they keep going around in a circle.

[@ariannakendall7664]

That’s how we do it ig

[@jamessatterlee]

We’ve done it since time immemorial…and we always do it counter-clockwise.

[@mealex303]

creator?? the planet is the creator your mum was yout creator. there is no1 God we are all miracles were are all our own gods the earth is what we should be giving thanks to not destroying it!

[@jamessatterlee]

God is our creator. In the Mvskoke language, he’s traditionally called Ofvnkv. At the Indian Churches, he’s called Esvketvmese. We’ve always believed in a creator.

[@mealex303]

@@jamessatterlee we are all gods we are all miracles we can all create life and build worlds

[@MrShazaamm]

Alabama paorch

[@micahcloud7901]

this is sad that they will pick indoors over the traditional

[@BadfingerBoogieBarb]

If you watched the video, you would see that this was just an exhibition.

[@micahcloud7901]

+BadfingerBoogieBarb but still its not supposed to be indoors it's supposed to be outside in front of the traditional fire and if its just an exhibition then it should be outside

[@BadfingerBoogieBarb]

Again, it's an exhibition. It sounds like you need to look up the definition. In the winter months, there are many stomp dances held indoors. These are all social dances. There is a clear and obvious distinction between social stomp dances and the dances held at the ceremonial grounds. Stop being an arrogant disrespectful twit.

[@micahcloud7901]

😂😂 lol ok but there's Cherokee grounds that dance through the summer and winter

[@christinaharjo2922]

Micah Cloud no it's not inside is better cause at night u get misquto bites