About 20 years ago we brought our first tipi. This was a second-hand 14ft one, we now have a 16ft one. The bigger you get the more trouble you have transporting it around because of the length of the poles although we have managed an 18ft one with poles 24ft long, as you can imagine though, a larger tipi also means considerably more weight. After getting our first Tipi and attending a few
Pow Wow's, we were asked to appear at certain functions and so started to do a few dance demonstrations at varied festivals and gave talks to Scouts and Schools etc. As a result of this we became very popular with the media appearing on tv and in the news papers. After a couple of years we were then approached by an agent who asked us if we would do a show up North; naturally we said yes, and then
whilst there another group asked us if we would help them out as they wanted a few more dancers. We joined in with them and stayed as part of their group for two or three years before going back on our own as we are now . We do still have another group join us for larger events, but now due to getting older and the joints getting rather stiff we only do a few dance shows where we are all together. It
was only recently whilst filming for a "30 minutes" documentary on Central television that all my children were together in Native American costume for the first time in 5 years. The photograph on this page above marks that occasion. Over the last few years most of our shows have only been with a few family members. This is due to some of us having to work unlike my self being retired, but I still go out as a story teller. Some of them I write whilst others are legends of the Native
Americans. Lone Eagle | 
