{"id":9015,"date":"2021-03-12T11:40:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T16:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=9015"},"modified":"2021-03-16T17:55:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T21:55:38","slug":"native-sun-news-today-lakota-matriarch-continues-to-honor-late-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/03\/12\/native-sun-news-today-lakota-matriarch-continues-to-honor-late-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Sun News Today: Lakota matriarch continues to honor late husband"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lula Red Cloud and Harry Burk. Courtesy photo\r\n<\/figcaption><\/div><\/div>\r\n
Lakota matriarch carries on traditions<\/div>\r\n
Friday, March 12, 2021<\/div>\r\n
By Talli Nauman<\/div>\r\n
Native Sun News Today Health & Environment Editor<\/div>\r\n
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<\/P>\r\nCRAZY HORSE \u2013 As the time comes for her to take part in welcoming the seasonal arrival of the Wak\u00ed\u014bya\u014b to Black Elk Peak<\/a>, Lula Red Cloud also is preparing the third of four annual commemoration services for her late husband Harry Michael Lee Anukansun Hokshila Burk Sr<\/a>.

<\/P>A Northern Arapaho nicknamed Billy Jack, Burk took his journey to the spirit world on March 20, 2018, at the age of 92. His ashes are scattered here at Crazy Horse Mountain, where Red Cloud invites friends and relatives to \u201ca small giveaway and feed\u201d beginning at 1 p.m. on the same date this year.

<\/P>\r\n\u201cI do this memorial in the Lakota way for my husband,\u201d Red Cloud told the Native Sun News Today, recalling Burk\u2019s observation, \u201cYou may have lived a long time, but even at a very old age, you have lived only a buffalo\u2019s breath in winter.\u201d

<\/P>\r\nBorn Jan. 18, 1926, Burk was a World War II combat veteran. \u201cOnce a Marine, always a Marine,\u201d he was fond of saying. He kept a commitment to the warrior\u2019s tradition as a Sun Dancer, Traditional Dancer, and a Southern Gourd Dancer. He was a lifelong cultural preservationist.

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