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Horace P. Axtell https://lmtribune.com/northwest/nez-perce-elder-horace-p-axtell-dies-at-age/article_a28fc5d3-e5bd-5279-8071-8a2486b02553.html In 2008, Axtell was among 10 recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship, the highest federal honor in the folk and traditional arts, according to the NEA. The award recognized Axtell for his lifetime of contributions to traditional arts, Barry Bergey, folk and traditional arts director for the NEA, said. "I'm really honored by this award I'm getting," Axtell told the Tribune in 2008. "To myself I assume all this is coming to me for being dedicated to my tribe. I guess I'd have to say that makes me a proud Nez Perce to represent my people like that." "He was a descendant of a warrior in the Nez Perce War," Tribal Chairman Anthony Johnson said. He made annual pilgrimages to the Bear Paw Battlefield to pay respects to those buried there. As a child, he thought Nez Perce was the only language, he said in a 2008 interview with the Tribune. Axtell accepted an invitation to teach a Nez Perce language course at Lewis & Clark in Portland, Oregon. http://www.mastersoftraditionalarts.org/artists/15 In the early 1990s, writer and filmmaker Margo Aragon interviewed him at length for a memoir, A Little Bit of Wisdom: Conversations with a Nez Perce Elder. His story has also been told in a documentary film directed by Aragon, Nee-mee-poo: The Power of Our Dance. The first words of the title are the tribe’s name for itself. Axtell was dedicated to preserving his language. On guard duty in the Army, he spoke to himself in Nez Perce to avoid forgetting it. He did much to ensure the survival of tribal forms of singing. “One person will start a song that he wants to sing,” he told an interviewer, “and we join in. We stand straight up and sing to the Creator, and we don’t ad lib or anything. Everything is according to the way they were taught to us, and we don’t make any alterations or anything like that. We don’t have recordings.” There are songs for food, for water, for the sunrise, for the moon. “All our way of life is connected to nature,” Axtell said. “A lot of people want to call it our religion, but we call it our way of life.” “Meet the Elders! No. 1.” Wellbriety; White Bison’s Online Magazine. (Summer/Fall 2003). Axtell, Horace, and Margo Aragon. A Little Bit of Wisdom: Conversations with a Nez Perce Elder. (Confluence Press, Lewiston, Idaho, 1997. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 2000.) Heller, Gregory. “Interview: Nez Perce Tribe Elder Horace Axtell on Nez Perce Creation Story." Plum TV (April 6, 2009). Stevens, Mark. “Annals of the West: Chief Joseph’s Revenge.” The New Yorker. (August 8, 1994) pp. 26-33. Nez Perce https://books.google.com/books?id=xVeIsvQjFN4C&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=Axtell+%22When+the+ship+pulled+into+the+harbor+I+could+see+bodies+still+floating,+killed+by+the+atomic+bomb.&source=bl&ots=2r7-__2-6B&sig=ar4ObBBE_1Uaq3kR6tM_NHkRQVk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-mLOyk4zeAhXC7YMKHTOnBSQQ6AEwCXoECAQQAQ http://www.firstwarrior.com/Gallery/horace_axtell.htm Japan, 1945: "When the ship pulled into the harbor I could see bodies still floating, killed by the atomic bomb. I saw all the dead Japanese, the children, women and elders. I went to the crater where the bomb had landed and the devastation, the carnage, brought me back to the feelings of Big Hole where my great-grandfather fought in that war down there, and the way women and children and old people were massacred or killed (at Big Hole ). And that kind of almost a comparison to what I seen with my own eyes. Timlpusmin, Horace's great-grandfather ". ..lived through Big Hole by singing his power song but was killed later at Bear Paw. Yellow Wolf marked the spot where he was killed and I visit there every year. It is sacred ground to me." Horace is the Spiritual Leader of the Nez Perce (Nimiipu) and The Seven Drum Religion. His traditional name is lsluumnts from his grandfather. He served in the Army's 529th Engineer Unit. References |
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