 All right, good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Burns, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event. We're a webinar, is a common terminology. We're an online show, webcast, whatever you want to call us. We are live here every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time, live here online. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesday mornings, that's fine. We do record the show every week and you can watch all of our recordings on our website at a time that is convenient to you. And at the end of today's show, I will show you where all those recordings are and where to do them this morning show will go. We do a variety of things here on the show. Oh, both the show, the live show, as you mentioned, both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with any of your friends, colleagues, family members, anybody who might be interested in any of the topics that we have here on the show. We do a mixture of things here, book reviews, mini-training sessions, interviews, demos of products and software and programs. Basically anything library related is on our show. We don't have much, that's really the only criteria. Something that libraries are doing, something they're interested in, something they could be doing, programs, new technology they could use, all sorts of different things. So just anything related to libraries and all types of libraries. We don't really have any limit to that as well. We've had museum libraries, special libraries, public academic, we're all over the place. We do have Nebraska Library Commission staff that do presentations sometimes. But we also bring in guest speakers from outside of the commission, which we have this morning on the line of us, on the line with us is Rosella Tesh. Hello, good morning, Rosella. Hi, how are you? And thank you for having me here. And Rosella is, she's now in Western Nebraska, way on the other side of the state from me. And she's a library director at Shadron Public Library. And I've been out there before, I've visited across the state, so I've been to the area. I like going up to Shadron just as it is aside. Lots of, much of Nebraska, as anyone who's from here knows or might know, is very open and flat and, you know, plains. But then up in this northwest corner of the state, there's this awesome forest, pine trees, far as I can see in some of the areas. And it's a really nice kind of cozy area to travel and visit at. And that's where Shadron Public Library is up there. And Rosella is going to tell us about this great film festival they've been doing for the, this is the third year, right? Yes, it was the third year. And I would like to say, I have here with me at the library, Margarita Bay-Miller. She is the person that with me has brought to life trading stories. So we will try to share the microphone. Okay. All right. No problem. Go ahead and take a start. What's about it? Okay. First of all, you can see here on the screen the logo of trading stories. And it's a Native American movie festival where we are located. We are here, northwest of Nebraska, like Krista said, very close to the border with the south of Dakota. And this is important. Shadron is what is called the border city because the border with, not only with, closer to the state of South Dakota, but also with the Pine Ridge Reservation. There is lots of coming and going. Pine Ridge doesn't have its own library. And so many people, when they come to shop down to Shadron, they also use our facility. So lots of our patrons are Native American. Okay. We are going to give you a little view of what is Shadron. Right now, football is one of the biggest things because it's full. We are in the Pine Ridge area. It's very beautiful. Lots of ponderosa pine. Lots of scenic views. Downtown Shadron has historic buildings. This is the building from where the Shadron Chicago horse race in 1800 start. Here, it's a view of downtown Shadron, business district. And here, there is a... Sorry, I went too fast. There is a view of erodeos. We are kind of an agriculture service slash tourist community. All right. So a little bit of facts about Shadron. Our population is 5,775 people. Like I said, the agriculture services tourists are some of our way to prosper and survive. Shadron State College, it's a very important presence. Shadron is also the headquarters for the Nebraska and Samuel. And Samuel McKelvie National Forest and the Buffalo Gap, Fort Peer, and Ogallala National Grasslands. So there are lots of open spaces. There is a museum, very famous, internationally famous, the Museum of Food Trade. And it's located on the site of the ancient American food companies post, what's called the Burdo Trading Post. In the Lakota language, Shadron is known as Chapa Huaca o Tujanhuahe, which means Biver River City. This is rather important because one of the features of Shadron is a food trade day festival. It takes place in July, in the second week of July. And it's a celebration of the food trade. It's very well known statewide and beyond the state borders. It's also part of our culture and heritage. And here are some of the photos of the food trade days. As you can see, it's important enough that City Council every year has a proclamation. OK. I'm going to show you some images of Pine Ridge because Pine Ridge is also part of what the reality of Shadron is. And it's also part of what the movie festival is about. This is a photo of our library. And the library is a little bit the link between Shadron and the Pine Ridge Reservation because people come here and use our services. So Pine Ridge has a beautiful scenery, part of it as standard to the badlands. Not everything in Pine Ridge is beautiful. Unfortunately, there are still poverty and other problems. But also there are hopes. And one of the hopes is the Heritage Center. It's a kind of museum slash trading place for art in Pine Ridge. And it's run by the Jesuits. And here there is a photo of their shop. OK. Some thoughts about Pine Ridge. Tribal government records 38,000 people enrolled in the tribe. The poverty in Pine Ridge is extreme. And of 2007, the employment rate was 80, 90% per capita and income of $4,000. Eight times the United States rate for diabetes. Five times the United States rate of cervical cancer. Twice the rate of heart disease. Eight times the United States rate for tuberculosis. Alcoholism rates as high as 80%. One in four infants born with fetal alcohol syndrome or the effects of it. Suicide rate more than twice the national rate. Since suicide rate four times the national rate. Infant mortality is three times the national rate. And life expectancy in Pine Ridge. It's the lowest in the United States and the second lowest in the Western Hemisphere. I'm not saying this facts to sudden people or to make a political statement. It's because those facts reflect in the movies that we show some time. And so I wanted to give a kind of a comprehensive idea of what we're doing. So how the movie festival began. It began on a winter vertical day. I went to City Hall and the president of the Food Trade Days Association, Barb McDaniel, asked me, can you do something? Can the library do, can do something to bring new programs to food trade days? And I took a long time and then I came out with three activities. The movie festival, a ghost hunt and a quilt show. The quilt show never took flight. It was too much. We indeed still do the ghost hunt and we do two of them during the movie festival. In fact, we have projects to integrate those ghost hunts into the movie festival for next year. The first committee was made up of Annette Balloon. She was our children's librarian. Myself and Marguerite Bemiller Marguerite. It's one of the foundation members. Tell me when you want Marguerite to talk again. All right, so the first movie festival. Brazil, it's up to you whenever she wants to chime in. You guys can go right ahead and whatever works for you guys. Yeah. All right, so the first movie festival took place July 2014. So why a movie, why a Native American movie festival? First of all, Native American culture is an integral part of Shadaron, as they said. Many of Shadaron public library users are Native Americans. Many Native American art forms are vibrant and interesting. Native American culture was part of food trade days in the past. Many from all over the US and abroad are interested in Lakota and other Native American culture and come to Northwest Nebraska to study them. A good fit for Shadaron public library. We have a collection. It's called the Indigenous People of North America. It's a comprehensive collection about the Native populations. And also to bring hope and highlight the positive and discuss issues. Sometime issues of Native Americans are ignored or just people don't know about it. So like I said, the first movie festival started July 2014. And so we began way back in January, though, to search for titles. And we looked on the internet, other festivals, friends and family ideas. One of the issues and the problem we had was how we complied with copyrights. It's a big issue. Usually the movies we show are in these movies are movies that are not in the commercial stream. So to find the company that owns the copyright, it's incredibly hard and time consuming. And sometimes very expensive. Sometimes just a movie copyright for one showing can be $300, $350. We also had to search for guest. And again, we use friends, family, Twitter. Net was knowledgeable of many of the people that work in the reservation in the art fields. And so Marguerite. And they have way more knowledge and content than I do. We also had to hunt for money. And we use for the first year the library budget, friends, and foundation of money. Publicity was one of our concern because, of course, we were starting from scratch and nobody knew about us. And so until making poster flyers and brochure, go to radio shows, talk to city council, and so on and so forth, the distribution of a publicity material and the public relation was another point. And Marguerite and her daughter Monica traveled hundreds of miles just to hang posters. We also had to build a reputation for our brand, for our name. We knew that we wanted to continue and we wanted to do for years and years to come. Finding partners, we found a good fit with the museum of the food trade that were interested to work with us. We wanted also to honor the Native American traditions of when you do a party. And so we decided that the movie festival was going to welcome everyone and have a food and refreshment for every show of movies, just like a Native American gathering would have. Sorry. And then the making, I switch the words, the letters of a logo. Logo was very important. And OK. OK. So the logo was an idea of Marguerite and so I'm going to pass the microphone to her. I am adjusting the headset here. So the logo in terms of, oh, I'm Marguerite Bay-Miller and I'm with the Shadron Public Library Foundation. And this has been a wonderful program to work on. The Trading Stories logo was actually developed through a friend who's a teacher in the art department at Shadron State. And I asked if she could help us try to develop something that would reflect what we're doing. The logo, as you see, does reflect what we believe to be the trading of stories. The term or the brand, you might say, Trading Stories, plus the logo was designed to reflect regarding the fur trade period of Shadron, the history of Shadron. And one of the things that was happening, as Rosella mentioned, in terms of the fur trade day celebration and around the fur trade day museum was that it was celebrating just part of the fur trading to the history of Shadron. It was neglecting, or not through intention, but just as things happened, to not really pay much attention to who those fur traders were trading with, which was the area indigenous community, the Lakota people. So the logo and also the brand of Trading Stories, which we are now cooperating and trademarking, was designed to reflect that, the two coming together and telling stories to each other. So... So you want to go with this? All right, so every time we have done a movie festival, we had also some bumps in the road. And we have learned that one of the lessons is to expect the unexpected and really go with the flow. We had the first year, we had them welcome, I mean, very welcome, but unexpected guests that we had no idea were going to come. We had to iron basically the movie screen, and that was a very strange story, but our movie screen was at first located upstairs and one of the art directors, we had invited some of the art directors and actors and characters of the movie, didn't like the screen as it was. So I had to go to Walmart and just plan sheet and iron it because it had the whole crisis. So weird stuff that you don't even know is going to happen and is going to come down. And we were also worried about protesters and troublemakers because some of the movies we should wear kind of a controversial at the time. And here are the 2014 movies where I think that for a folk, Young Lakota. In Young Lakota, it's about abortion in the reservation, which at the time in 2010 was still permitted, it's not now. We had invited Cecilia Fire Thunder. She had been the leader of the tribe and then she had been, if I remember well, fired. And Cecilia Fire Thunder is an incredibly enthusiastic woman. She's also seen as a controversial figure by some. So we were a little bit worried, but we also thought, hey, this is the reality of life. We want to show the issues as they are. And so we had discussed the finding security and then we decided for now nothing happened really. Everybody was very happy to talk with Cecilia. She gives you energy and she fires you up. So she's a blessing of the woman. Another movie was Ishtima and Ishtima was done or actually Russell Means Son. And for those who do not know or are not familiar with Pine Ridge, Russell Means was an activist, very famous during the 70s, 80s, and 90s. And Son Scott is also an activist and a very interesting person. So that was another reason we were a little bit on the edge. Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse, we had picked up the movie, it was an old movie from the 50s. We wanted to show how Native Americans were portrayed back then and the difference with what they portray of Native Americans in cinematography now. So it was an interesting movie to put there. We had the sitting bull voice. We had invited the great grandson of the sitting bull, Ernie La Pointe. And with Ernie came the director of that movie. And also, like I said, another guest that was a really nice and fun person. People loved to talk to him. And then we showed Smoke Signals, which is a feature movie. OK, so I have already talked about all the guests. And last one is Jim Kent. And I want Margaret to explain this point, because this was very crucial for the life and the continuation of the movie festival. And Jim, it's a person that Margaret knows very well. We had invited Jim Kent, a journalist, to, he's in the Rapid City area, actually, Hot Springs, just north of Shadron. And he writes for the Rapid City Journal, the major newspaper in that area, one of the major newspapers of South Dakota. But he also is with South Dakota Public Radio. He covers for them different pieces. And he also writes for Lakota Times. So he's a very influential journalist and writes very well. And I knew him. And I invited him to come and view the first film festival. It was interesting. He wasn't really particularly interested in fur trade days itself, that celebration. He said every community has their parades and whatnot and whatever. But the fact that we were doing a movie festival centered around the Native American culture of the area, he thought that that was really significant. When he came, he covered it. Not just did he cover it very well. He wrote an amazing article, which was published in the Rapid City Journal. But he also wrote, as I said, the Lakota Times, but carried it as well by South Dakota Public Radio. And in the article, he praised the indigenous collection of Shadron Public Library and compared it to other libraries within just South Dakota and also Nebraska and also in places such as Black Hill State University and Rapid City Library and said that this was a far better collection, the fact that it was a very specified collection with its own area of the library, whereas everywhere else that he found had integrated anything they had on indigenous people within their main collection. So he praised that in terms of the small library here, what they were doing with indigenous works. Jim has since then covered other areas and other film festivals and is totally involved in what we're doing here. And we'll talk more about what we've done just this past year as well. But he's very significant for us in terms of publicizing what we're doing. And because of what he did, we were very quickly, after the publication, we were contacted by the Dahl Museum in Rapid City, asked if we could bring the movie festival there, if that was possible, and also South Dakota Arts, the State Arts Commission, asked if we could somehow produce this in Western South Dakota and that they would pay us to do that. And we just thought, we can't do that. We can't travel with this or whatever. But it was a very nice compliment, and that was the result of Jim's work and his publicizing what we were doing. All right. So as Margaret just told you, we really scored big with the article in the Rapid City Journal. And also, the local radio stations were able to support us, as well as the newspapers. And the piece of Jim Kent was also transmitted through the Native American radio that covers US and Canada. So we came to decide to continue. Like I said, the will to do it was at the beginning. We knew that we wanted to do this and continue through the years and making it bigger for the library. And so the July 2015 season, one of the committee members, Annette Bell, she left Shadron and she moved away. So we were two, and we really had to dig down deep. It's lots of work, and you have to start around January. It's a work in top of work. It's not that we can't put aside the library work and say, well, we're doing the movie festival. It has to be combined. So we had to find our own personal ways. You have to have motivations in your soul to do this kind of stuff at this small town level that we have. There are no many resources, and it's lots of work. We renewed the format and adding presenters and finding other partners. So Shadron Art Center became a partner. They were to do an art display at the same time that we did the movie festival. Of course, the art display was going to be of Native American art. Again, the Museum of the Food Trade Rotary supported us with a monetary donation. We made the links with the Heritage Center in Pine Ridge. The Dos County Traveling Board supported us, again, monetarily. And so the Friends of the Library, the Food Trade Days Committee, and the Shadron Public Library Foundation. We found a team that rotated mostly around the horse in the Native American culture. And like I said, we added visual art. This portrait of the horse was donated by Marguerite to the library. And it was made by an artist. Her name was Ardith Morse. She just passed away. It's a beautiful horse. The other reason also why we decided for horses was that a documentary had just been edited and prepared for viewing in Pine Ridge. And the name was We Are a Horse Nation. We were able to have it as a preview here at the library to show it has a preview here at the library. And it's a beautiful movie. And of course, it talks about the relationship between Lakota and the horses. Oh, OK. Here I listed only two movies. They were the main ones that we showed that we had other ones. So We Are a Horse Nation and Pow Wow Highway. Marguerite was the one that found We Are a Horse Nation and she will explain to you how and why. Well, the film We Are a Horse Nation was the documentary. It was made on Pine Ridge. And what it documents is the relationship between Native Americans and the horse. And the Lakota people do very elaborate decorations, beadwork, headdresses for the horses. The detail is quite amazing and quite striking. But this was an important film to show what went on on the reservation in terms of the relationship between the people and the horse, but also how they use the horse not just for ceremonial purposes, but throughout their life, actually, in terms of the things that they do. So in terms of finding it was making contact, again, with the director of the film and the producer of the film, meeting them and saying that this is what we're doing. They were very pleased to know that this was something that was going on in Chatteron and a border community to the reservation. And we're willing to allow us to show a preview of the film before it was actually released to the public. It is now actually a known film and something that Rosella doesn't even know yet. I just returned from several weeks in Montana and I was in Dear Lodge, Montana. And just in speaking to someone at the visitor's bureau there, I was interested in touring something. And she said, where are you from? And I said, Chatteron. And she actually was aware of Fort Robinson, but also had been through the area, knew of the film festival and fur trade days. And then we also talked about this particular film because she had come through during the time that we had shown it. So we then talked about the relationship of horses and indigenous people. So we got to be known even in Montana. So it was sort of a chance meeting and a nice thing to hear that this had been known there. So anyway. OK, so in 2015, we also wrote a grant with the humanity, Nebraska Humanities, to bring guest speakers. And one was Joi Zell Gangway-Golfrey. She's an ethnology and a performer. And she wrote when Lewis and Clark committed. She presented about when Lewis and Clark met the CU. And we had also Jerome Kiosmo. He's an herbalist and a shaman. And he presented herbs and medicines of the Lakota. More things went wrong that year. We lost a performer. There was one who arrived late. I almost had a heart attack. Margaret was like, calm down, calm down. One got sick. And well, we had some misunderstandings. So it was very, very stressful. OK, I would like to talk a little bit before we move on about the attendance. In 2014, when we began, we had 96 people attending the festival. The festival lasted three days. In 2015, the attendance grew to 195. And this year, we had 560 people in attendance. So we are really thrilled about this. So here we come to the third edition of the movie festival, July 2016. Razella, that's a pretty amazing increase in attendance there, jumping up from less than 100 to over 500. Wow. Yeah, and that is to lots of work. First of all, lots of learning from your mistakes and learning how to publicize, and learning how to make links, and just working the crowd. And when I'm in work in the crowd, you go to radio stations, and you go on air. We started very early this year being present at KACSR. I think we went to the radio station three or four times. We go to city council, and we start to present there ahead, because they transmit the canceled meetings on TV. We have expanded. We send our announcement by letters and posters to three states. Also, we take advantage of every time we get out of Chadron to hang posters. I went toward Denver, so I stop in every single little town between here and here to hang posters. And Margarita and her daughter have done the same. So like if we have a hundred miles away, that's pretty, yeah, that's dedication. We also go to Pine Ridge, and we talk to agencies, to people, we hang posters, and so on and so forth. Yeah, a lot of word of mouth. I'm sure people talking about it out there as well. And getting these, being able to premiere these movies for the first time, that's definitely a big draw. Yeah, and also we have a start to put ads in the newspaper. It's kind of like a circle. You start to be famous then, I mean, famous. You start to get attention. And so people start to ask you about. And it works that way. We also have a start, because we are known, we were able to get more monetary help this year. And so we were able to put our ad on several newspapers. So one thing brings to the other. It's like a puzzle. Yeah, nice. Yeah, so the highlights of this year, we found a wonderful person to work with us. She's an artist. Her name is Crystal Ferris Gibson. She's of mixed heritage, and she's part of Lakota. And so she has lots of contents in Pine Ridge, and also here in Chadron. She also has an incredible vibrant energy. And I think we have been feeding from each other energy, because like I said, there's a lot of work, so you need to have somebody sometime to push you, and so on and so forth. We divided the festival into parts, because again, Margarita was able to bring to us Medicine Woman. And I want Margarita to talk now about Medicine Woman. Well, as Rosella said, one of the highlights for this year was the fact that we were able to premiere the film Medicine Woman. It's an NET film produced for Public Radio. It will be on PBS in November of this year. And it is the story of Suzanne LeFlesche, who is the first Native American physician, who also, she's female, but she's actually the first Native American physician. And also, as the film is billed, the first Native American physician and the women who have followed in her footsteps, one of whom is on the Rosebud Reservation, which is close to us as well. It's adjacent to Pine Ridge. It was an amazing documentary. The humanities Nebraska helped to fund this for us to be able to have a premiere here. And it just came about through several contacts that I had with the Nebraska Indian Commission and in talking with them about what we were doing here and having them help us to try to promote it within the state. With those contacts, they talked about the fact that this film was being made. And I then got in touch with vision makers and the makers of the film there. And through a series of conversations and whatever, asked if there was any possibility that we could show the film in Shadrin as part of this festival. And they agreed. And humanities Nebraska also agreed to help fund it, as I said. So to bring out the producer of the film and to be able to have one of the main characters in the film here, it was really just quite wonderful for us to have this premiere here. They also allowed us to use the artwork that was developed for the film in terms of the publicizing of it. And so we were able to use that as part of our publicity and the posters that we produced for that. So it was very exciting that we were able to have a film premiere just within the third year of our film festival. All right. And here are the posters that Margaret was talking about. This is the poster made by Crystal for the movie festival. I'm sorry, it looks a little bit dark on the screen. It has all the programs. And here at the bottom, you can see all the organizations that sponsored us. I have also to say that for the first time, we had a business donor. We are very excited. We hope that there will be more private donors that will help to support us. And here it's the other one. And it's a beautiful poster. And like I said, if I remember well, we made the 500 posters of this one and another 500 of Medicine Woman. They were very beautiful, done in very strong paper. And so people kept taking them down and we had to go back and putting them up and so on and support because they really wanted a souvenir from them. The themes of this year were healing in the traditional way. And so the movie Medicine Woman. Also the guest, we had again Jerome Killsmall, a theater and a truditory opening ceremony, the first night of the movie festival. And by the way, we have expanded the movie festival to five days. So, and also we partnered with Chatham State College and Chatham State College, Herbarium. Dr. Susan Ross Meyer did the presentation before Medicine Woman on Native American herbs. So she looked at the herbs, the perspective of botanists. Steve Ross Meyer, the director of Chatham State College, Herbarium, did also presentation talking about Herbarium and the collection of Native American herbs held in Herbarium. We also had music, flute music by Michael Murphy before the showing of the movie. The art director of the movie was present at the viewing and she was very gracious and she took questions from the audience. And I should talk a little bit more about that. We call the movie festival trading stories because we want the artist to sit down with the public and trade the stories, talk about how they make those movies or how they make their art pieces so that it becomes a sharing, a real sharing of human beings. It's not just I go to the movie, I see the movie and that's it. There are stories around movies, there are stories around artworks and there are stories of the people that come to see the movie festival and they bring their stories and they are supposed to, sometimes they do share. In fact, we had a quiet discussion during one of the other movies. So, heart-sailing tools for people. Crafts has economic tool for sustenance of Lakota. Partner is sponsored this year where the Dos County Travel Board, Sheldon Public Library Foundation, Sheldon Public Library Friends, Dos County Travel Board, Fourth Trade Days Committee, Heritage Center out of the Red Cloud School in Pine Ridge, Nebraska Art Council in Nebraska-Manatees, NET Radio and Peterson Drug Store. The movies were Medicine Woman, The Revenant, Great Wolf and Little Mouse Sister. And this is a cartoon. We dedicated one day to children this year and we had the movie. We also had a lady, Vanna Bannon. She was for many years a teacher, both in Pine Ridge and in Chadron. And she read the story part in English, the part in Lakota. At the end of the story time, we served fried bread and woodchoppy. And like I said, we served food during every movie showing. For Medicine Woman, we had purchased a huge cake in the tradition of the Lakotas. So, it was the poster that you have seen had been reproduced on top of the cake. And it was a huge, huge cake. Resbomb. Resbomb was done in Parton Rushville. It's another independent movie, American Interior. That was done partially in Ireland. And a funny movie. We had a fun day, the last day of the movie festival, with more than fried bread. And we tried to stand up comedy, but I think people were tired after so many celebration downtown that day. And so, the open mic, it didn't go too well. We had only one person attended. We hope to expand the open mic next year and work it a little bit more. So, the other programs, we had bidding demonstration by Stephanie Sorbel. She is a bidding and jewelry artist from Pine Ridge. Just to give an idea, she had bid a carriage, a little baby carriage, all with tiny little beautiful bidding work. We had a photographic show by Tom Swiffer, is an artist that grew up between here and Pine Ridge. A musical show and lab by Michael Murphy. Michael did the music presentation before Medicine Woman. He stayed with us the day after and did the sub-war music and also told about how you play the flute. And he ended up showing to little ones and big ones how to make flutes. And that was really a big success with the crowds. Art showing by Crystal Ferris Gibson. Crystal had the sum of her pieces here at the library. And, like I said, the storytime in Lakota by Ivana Bannon. And then we had the fried bread and choked cherry syrup, has one of the treats. And also we had several displays around the library. We had jewelry, bid a jewelry from the Heritage Center in cases. We also had a Native American deer skin dress that was hanging from the ceiling. A shawl. During the movie festival, we transform the library. We take many of our regular furniture pieces out and we bring all their things in to give more of a flavor, more texture to the ambience of the library. So we had these jewelry in cases. We had cases with a medicine pouch and other artifacts and, of course, herbs and smudging tools. So the library transformed itself. And because we accumulate objects and so on and so forth, every year it becomes method and different. So this was a little bit about the medicine woman. If you go on the NET website, you will see this piece. You also will see they still have the announcement that the Shadron Public Library was going to show a preview. I was thrilled when I saw that. I said, oh, we're still there. We should talk a little bit about the Revenant. The Revenant of the Caprio Oscar-winning movie. So as I said before, we partner with the Museum of Food Trade and the owner, Dr. Jim Hansen, was the consultant for the movie The Revenant, the historical consultant. And so we invited him the second night of the movie festival to introduce the movie The Revenant. I was able to get the copyright to show it from Century Fox. They were very gracious. They didn't charge much. I was really thrilled about that. We tried to bring the copyright. We were not able to. But it was an interesting. Yeah. I made it with that. But it's great that you actually got them to let you do it. And it wasn't too overwhelming. That shows just, you know, ask. You never know what you can do. Yeah, exactly. It's always in the asking. Actually, asking. I have met lots of upcoming movie directors and actors. Sometimes I contacted them in Twitter. And they're very gracious. The majority answer. And the majority say, yes, if I can come. Or yes, you can have the movie to show and so on and so forth. Right now, we're working toward the next year festival. All righty, Storming, I'll leave you with some margarite comments about the next year. Well, this year, as Rosela said, proved to be quite popular. One more thought before we get into what we're going to do next year, what we're starting to think about in regards to the premier of medicine women. We had no idea how many people would show up. There's no way for us to determine that. Everything is free of charge. And it's a wonderful respite from other activities that are going on with fur trade days. Usually, at the time this is taking place, it's 100 degrees outside and shatter and very dusty and dry. And so the library is a wonderful place to cool off. And the fact that you can even get a little sustenance while you come in into the air conditioning and watch films and see artists is quite refreshing for people. But when we showed medicine women, we made it into a whole day in that, as Rosela mentioned, people were able to tour the herbarium at Shadrin State College, which is quite well known in terms of the collection that is there. And then we had Jerome Killsmall open the festival, basically, and introduced medicine women. But he not only gave a talk on traditional herbs, but he also did a traditional blessing for us and for the opening of the festival. And then, of course, the Ross Meilers talking about the use of herbs in the Lakota tradition as well, and then moving into the film. As I said, we had no idea how many people would be attending. But as they started coming in, just with Jerome's presentation, with the Ross Meilers presentation, we realized that we've always known that the library is too small for what we tried to do here. And that was certainly the case, and we hadn't even gotten to the film yet. And the place was really extremely crowded. By the time it was for the showing of the film, people were out the door and out on the sidewalk. And it was not just standing room only. We couldn't even admit everybody into the building. Some people just left and hoped they could see the film some other time. What we had to do when we saw how many people we have is to very quickly make a very quick reconfiguration of chairs and how we were going to present and so that people could see. So it was quite exciting, a little scary, but we were able to, within 10 minutes, actually, with everybody's help, reconfigure all the furnishings and where we were producing, showing the film. So looking towards next year, we thought this was a good problem to have, to have more people than you can really accommodate. And to have it be known that this is something really very special, and maybe you need to get there early because you might not be able to get in. And that might be how we bill it next year. So what we're doing next year, what we started talking about, one of the things we wanted to do this year, was to show a film, and it's a Sherman Alexi made film, and it has to do with his poetry as well, but it's called Fancy Dancing. And we weren't able to get permission to show it for this year, and everything else, just the way it was coming together. We thought that we would hold it for next year, and we'll work on that. But also, we want to have a performing artist come in who is a fancy dancer as well. And to pair that with the film. And so that's part of what we will be working on. And we have some other ideas, too, in terms of films. And I just learned the other day of a very prominent film director who lives on Pine Ridge and has worked on a number of major films. And we'll be making some contact with him to see not only what he's doing right now in terms of films, but also, if we could get him here to talk about filmmaking, particularly for younger people. So we have a lot that we're starting already to work on for next year. So we're not waiting till January. We realize that we need to start working, probably really putting it together in October, so. All right, and like has Margaret said, we didn't have enough space this year. So we're going to use the winter month to reconfigure the furniture and the shelves, the bookshelves upstairs so that we will have more room for next year for people to sit down and watch the movies. I forgot to say that last year we purchased a movie theater screen, the same size. So we have a huge screen. We have also a very good projector. We are going to purchase more speakers so that people can really have good audio. And several people have asked me, why don't you do the movie festival downtown at the movie theater? We don't want to do that because, first of all, we want people to come and see the library and also see that we need to have an innovation of the library. It's unique to us. We also want to continue to offer it in the traditional Lakota way, which is you offer food. You sit down and before and after you discuss the movies, you talk with people. You get to know the artist that would not be possible in a regular movies theater setting. So this is the study of trading stories. Yeah, I think the discussion and the interaction you guys have is really one of the things that's unique about this event. And I think that was what I thought was very, really caught my attention. It's very fun. And the story time in Lakota, I wanted to know more about that. How did that? How did the children react to that? Oh, they love it. Kids have a spandible mind and open heart. So they were thrilled. And frankly, they were not only children. And there were several adults as well, which was very, very good. I thought it's good that adults are able to participate and be interested as well. I have known Vanabanan for years. She was one of the first people I met when I moved to Shadran. Very nice lady. She's an authority on Lakota language. She had to study and she continued to study. One little detail that is very funny. When we start to think about the movie festival, we wanted to give a trading story the Lakota name. And then we discovered we couldn't because we didn't know the exact pronunciation and the exact words to translate. And we didn't want to look ludicrous. Right. So to have an expert in Lakota language this year was very interesting. There are no many people that speak or know deeply Lakota anymore. The tribes are trying to preserve the language. I believe, I'm not too sure, but I believe that to hold the office, you need to know. In Pernich, you need to know the language or part of the language. So in language, it's an integral part of an heritage. You lose that and you lose lots of your identity. So that is one of the reasons why we wanted to have it. She's also the mother of, Vanabana is also the mother of Crystal, the other member of the committee. Cool. Yeah. All right. Anything else before I kind of jumped in there? No, if anybody has questions. Yeah, if anybody does, it looks like everybody is stuck around till the end. I know we're a little past 11 o'clock, but we did start a little bit after our usual time at 10 central time anyways. If anybody does have any questions or comments about the festival, please type into the questions section of your GoToWomener interface. I can grab that. Like I said, this is a really cool event. I know when you shared the information about this to Richard Miller here at the Library Commission. That's when we jumped on the idea of having you share more onto the show here about how the event went. Sounds great. Yeah, it makes me want to wish I could come there. Yeah, it would be like I'd have to take a little couple of days vacation out there. Well, actually, it's a very interesting place in July. It's always interesting, but in July, many things happen. I would like to thank you for having us today and to give us the opportunity to tell this story. Great, thank you so much. It didn't look like anybody's typing in any urgent questions right now, so I think we will wrap it up for this morning. If you guys do have any questions about the program and what they're doing out there, you can contact Rosella at the Shadrim Public Library, and I'm sure she'd be happy to chat with you about the whole event and what's going to be happening for next year. You keep me at the same time of year, I assume. You're not going to adjust that. During the first three days, and you can find information on our website, but also on the official full three days site. Right, and we do have, I've been, as Rosella has been talking, I've been grabbing her websites and links from everything that are the different places that she mentioned that'll be available to you guys afterwards along with the recording. And, Rosella, if you can send me your presentation, this PowerPoint, send me that email, and I'll post that up as well so anybody who wants to get more of the information and the statistics and the details and the movie titles and everything that'll all be included afterwards as well. Great, all right. Thank you guys, thank you much. Rosella and Marguerite, thanks to you as well for coming on with us this morning. All right, I'm going to pull back, present your control to my screen here so I can show you, there we go. This is the event for today. As I said, I did, in our delicious account here, I've grabbed some of the links, the Nuft, the form of the Horse Nation film and the library that's for trade. Just some things that you're mentioning, news article from the South Dakota Public Libraries, or the radio. So all this will be included when we have the recording put up later. Our recording will be here on our Encompass Live website right beneath our upcoming shows is our archives. And here's what we had on our previous weeks and last week we had the recording presentation. They had a couple extra documents and links. You'll have the same kind of thing for today's show we posted up there. Most likely by this afternoon, it all depends on how quickly YouTube cooperates with me and when I'm uploading the recording to it after we are done here. So that'll be available. So that will wrap it up for today's show. I hope you'll join us for next week when we're talking about Nebraska 150 books again. We had a presentation about that last month but we're gonna be specifically focusing on using the 150 books, the Nebraska 150 books on along with your book group. So Lisa Kelly who's in charge of who's our information services director here the library commission will be joining us along with Erin Willis will be back. She was with us talking about the Nebraska 150 books previous events previously. This is related to Nebraska's 150th birthday celebration, the sesquicentennial. Yes, if I say it slow I can say it. So join us next week to see how you can use those books in programming and with book groups at your library. And please do sign up for any of our other upcoming shows. You see we've got some October sessions here. We are having our one week off in October. Our NLA, NSLA annual conference is coming up. So that will be the week we take off just so note that on your calendar we will not have a show that week. Also if you are big on Facebook please do like us over there on our Encompass Live page. We post reminders of when sessions are starting. You can see here is a login and join us right now for today's show. Run recordings are available that we posted up here. So if you're big on following things on Facebook give us a like over there and you can keep up with what we do that way. Other than that that wraps it up for this morning show. Thank you very much again Rosella and Marguerite for sharing about trading stories with us. And thank you everyone for attending. We'll see you next time on Encompass Live. Bye bye.