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For over four decades, Tangen has been invited into, and extended invitations for, collaborative work with global Indigenous artists and intergenerational community members locally and globally. Dancing Earth has been committed to working with Native American, global, and mixed Indigenous artists to support, nurture, and highlight diverse Indigenous embodied values and ways of being through creative artistic practice.

She has also been formally ceremonially , and informally, adopted or claimed by specific Native families within North America. My sense of cultural inclusion as a diasporic mixed woman of color in America is through personal and extended familial connections. With these community kinship ties, I and others have inaccurately associated my identity as North American Native.

It feels necessary at this time to bring to light details that I had previously preferred to discuss in person. With an unsteady childhood, Rulan often found herself staying with maternal grandparents who originally came from Luzon Island of Philippines and made their home in San Francisco after World War II. Since childhood, she had minimal contact with her father who struggled with mental health or with the patrilineal side of her family except for some letters.

Rulan's international dance career 4 led to the founding of Dancing Earth in After years of teaching dance workshops to reservation youth starting in the s, and having survived stage 4 cancer in the early s, Rulan emerged back into life with newly clarified purpose: She strove to create hope and opportunity for aspiring Indigenous performers, theater artists and technicians, who also serve as culture carriers, art educators, and leaders.

Dancing Earth has shared workshops and performances in eighteen states and nine countries, and continues to perform in a variety of venues, spanning gymnasiums on reservations, riverbeds in canyons, college dance studios, opera houses, and now online platforms. After seeing how much the children in it looked up to Rulan, Geraldine requested tribal elder Garfield and wife Bertha Grassrope as well as Floyd Hand, to give the Lakota ceremony through which two persons adopt the Hunka 5 relationship toward each other.

Over 20 years ago Rulan met George Burdeau Blackfeet ; George's last name -- Burdeau 7 , -- was the same name mentioned as a family name in the few letters that Rulan's patrilineal grandmother had sent her.

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Through discussion of their family lines, George and Rulan came to understand themselves to have a shared name that connected them to Blackfeet heritage relating them as Blackfeet whose ancestors inherited a French voyager name. When Rulan contacted Mr. Life is about striving for balance with each step we take which makes us kinetic by nature, where everything changes with each breath we take.

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