Update on Benjamin Pavisook from Towaoc on the Ute Mountain Reservation in Southwest Colorado. Benny past away at the end of October 2023 he was with his family and friends and past peacefully.

Sending friendship and love. Thank you Ute tribe for letting us experience and participate in healing!

Thank you for your story I'm an Apache from Az I give you respect . Thank you in my culture the bear is given great respect

Thank you, I hope you still telling the stories.

Mike! Awesome! Thank you for sharing from your tribe's culture...

I was looking for the origin of the english bear dance which is a piece of music and was pleasantly suprised by this. Thankyou for sharing. 🐻

Much respect for this lesson, thank you for sharing.

Thank you for sharing the story with us.

This is good. They were taught to celebrate the waking time after the bear went to hibernate. It makes me wonder how different the bear’s meat might taste right upon their waking up, maybe a bit wiry and gamey? I LOVE the bear dance and it is a spectacular sight to see all the people dancing together like that. It’s something missing in the culture that I am familiar with, so powerful just the one dance! I believe my community needs something like the bear dance. I just know that if we just had that, there would be plenty wrongs in my world put back right again, and plenty sickness cured. My world needs the bear dance. Without it we are seriously in a dangerously dark place.

I love this and I love the bear dance

Thank you for sharing, beautiful.

Thank you for sharing. I dreamt of those hills in the background I feel. And there was LOTS of bears, bear families everywhere. Everything was green, there were mountains too. Another time, I dreamt of being in a cave and the spirit bear came over me to protect me. I didn't look right at it but I knew as my mom told me. I closed my eyes in my dream, I was afraid but told not to be. It was if it embraced me completely.

Thank you a really good story thank you

That’s cute. Thank you for sharing. I love bears.☀️

Miigwetch for sharing your story.

Namaste ty for the remembering 💚✌🖖🎵

With all due respect I want to share this: about fifteen years ago I stopped in Green River Utah to sleep overnight in my semi truck. When I was falling asleep I felt someone caressing my face when I opened my eyes I saw a human figure with dark skin like mine and black hair wearing a red bandana hide back into the top bunk. Of course I was scared at first thinking someone had gotten inside my sleeper, I got out of the bottom bunk ready to fight but there wasn’t anybody there. To this day I believe that human like figure was the spirit of one of the original inhabitants of this area.

The bears and animals speak again the dimensions are open✌

That was awesome.

I've heard this story before. Can't remember if it was from this tribe or another. But I remember hearing this when i was younger. Good to remember 🧡💙💜

Thank you for that wonderful story

Thank you for sharing this story. I think I heard it when I was little. It sounds really familiar. Never heard the song before though :) so thanks for that.

I've been speading the last few years reconnecting with my mowhak culture, I appreciate the elders that share our stories so more can learn

I truly wish i did not live in a city with stores and was back in nature. Everything is a struggle or mission and it's purely for survival and nourishment to see the next day

Hello, I love this story and listening to you telling it. I am putting together a service about how humans are part of creation, not separate from it. I am from the Black Hills and so am more acquainted with Lakota stories and such. Would it be ok with you if I used this video as part of my service? I hold it in much respect and would treat it so. Thank you, Leslie K.

Thank you.

Thank you. Im Owen House and I appreciate your story.

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well done ty

Seeing is believing.

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My name is running bear

Dnt think therz d rite story of d bear dance sum say it happened in d sheep mountain east of igancio colo

Is the bear dance just for the Ute tribe? My half sister is nezpearce I know I spelt that wrong and I’m sorry but I’ve never heard of a bear dance until my grandson was born and he’s Ute rapahoe and shashone again sorry for butchering the name’s.

A'ho 🐻