{"id":26397,"date":"2022-07-20T13:03:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=26397"},"modified":"2022-07-20T13:03:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:03:35","slug":"ernestine-anunkasan-waste-identity-molded-and-shaped-by-many-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/07\/20\/ernestine-anunkasan-waste-identity-molded-and-shaped-by-many-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernestine Anunkasan Waste\u2019: Identity molded and shaped by many factors"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Ernestine<\/a>
Ernestine Anunkasan Was te\u2019. Photo courtesy Native Sun News Today<\/figcaption>\r\n
Weaving an identity<\/div>\r\n
Wednesday, July 20, 2022<\/div>\r\n
By Ernestine Anunkasan Was te\u2019<\/div>\r\n
Native Sun News Today Assistant Editor<\/div>\r\n
nativesunnews.today<\/a><\/div>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nWhen a person\u2019s heritage originates from several different tribes and ethnicities, I often wonder how one decides to identify themselves.

<\/p>\r\nIn my case, I was born at the Indian Health Service Hospital on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on November 23, 1957, to Andrea Marie Rave and Sylvan Charles Brown. However, I spent most of my youth on the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian Reservations, although I am enrolled at Cheyenne River.

<\/p>\r\nMy Native American Heritage is linked to several tribal nations. My maternal grandfather, James \u201cJimmy\u201d Rave, was Winnebago from Winnebago, Nebraska, and my maternal grandmother, Aurelia Mabel Dupree, was Mnicoujou from Cheyenne River. \r\n

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The Grand River National Grassland in South Dakota crosses into portions of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and portions of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. Photo by Treva Slaughter \/ U.S. Forest Service \/ U.S. Department of Agriculture<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nMy paternal grandmother Ernestine June Brown Chasing Hawk was Hunkpapa from Standing Rock and paternal grandfather Dave Bald Eagle, was Mnicoujou and Hunkapapa from Cheyenne River. My paternal great, great grandmother Adele Cordier was Yanktonai from the Yankton Reservation. We also have traces of Mdewakantowan and Itazipcola ancestry on my mother\u2019s side. \r\n

<\/p>\r\nI am also of French descent through my mother\u2019s Dupree family lineage and of both German and French descent from my father\u2019s Braun (Brown) and Cordier lineage. \r\n

<\/p>\r\nMy father\u2019s side of the family is deeply rooted in the traditions, culture and language of the Lakota. As a young girl, I was often sent to stay with my great grandmother Cecelia One Bull \u2013 Brown who lived in the community of Little Oak Creek near Messiah Church along the Grand River. It was the ancestral home of her grandfather Itanchan Tatanka Iyotaka (Sitting Bull) and his sister Wiyaka Waste Win (Good Feather Woman).\r\n

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