That trickster Iktomi is at it again – this time he’s after a new wife and is willing to put on a dress to get one.  How well he speaks women’s-voice Lakota just might make a difference!

The loud success of Iktómi Wičhítegleǧa Siŋté Waŋ Úŋ (Iktomi’s Raccoon Hat) in June 2012 at LSI has prompted LLC to adapt two more Iktomi tales for a short Lakota-language play.

Iktómi Lečhála Tȟawíčutȟuŋ (Iktomi’s New Wife) combines the tales “Iktomi and the Ignorant Girl” (American Indian Myths and Legends, Pantheon Books 1984) and “Iktomi’s Blanket” (Old Indian Legends, by Zitkala-Ša / Gertrude Bonnin, University of Nebraska Press 1985).  Who turns out to be Iktomi’s new wife at the end is something we’ve invented ourselves!

As in 2012, rehearsals, staging and production of the play will come out of a Lakota Drama/Performance class (LDL 440, 441, and 442) at the Lakota Summer Institute and will be performed at the Standing Rock High School Auditorium in the final week of LSI, sometime around June 18^th.