Children's Songs (Wakanyeja Olowan) are in the studio, performed by Toni and Nina Tamayo.

AKICITA OLOWAN (WARRIOR SONGS) ARE NOW AVAILABLE. Contact me @ kriaukle@hotmail.com for details.

Stage II: "Lakota Songs: from Past to Present", re-recording of the old songs is under way. Six volumes of audio-recordings and a text projected. Demo CD, "Wokiksuye: Mastincala Olowan" ("Memories: Rabbit Songs") now available.

The project team presented a special edition (non-final version) of Akicita Olowan (Warrior Songs) at KINI radio in St. Francis, SD, for the Veteran's Day (November 11th).

"Preservation of Lakota Language: Translation of Songs and Speeches"

The project is designed and executed in partnership with the Lakota Studies Department at Sinte Gleska University. We are working with three song collections, which were recorded in Pine Ridge in the early 1900's. The goal is to preserve the songs and speeches and the knowledge conveyed in them for the future generations. The collection materials are transcribed using White Hat's (1999) font, and then translated into English. The transcriptions and translations are done or supervised by Lakota language experts. This project is supported by the Hans Rausing Endagered Languages Project,

http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=78.

Since 2005 I have been working as a researcher and field ethnographer for the ethnographic study of Camp Guernsey Training Area conducted by the Wyoming Army National Guard in Guernsey, WY. Camp Guernsey is 12 miles west of Fort Laramie, which served as a military and trade center of the northern Plains in the mid-1800s. My responsibilities include researching historical and ethnographic sources for the documentation of how the native people used the study area as well as conducting field interviews with the Native American representatives on the significance of the sites to their people and their protection.

Publications:

Saltanaviciute, Jurgita. 2007. Lithuanian Paganism: A "Native" Perspective. In "Defining Region: Baltic Area Studies from Sociocultural Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Perspectives". Ed. Rimantas Sliuzinskas and Vytis Ciubrinskas. Conference proceedings. Klaipeda, Lithuania: Klaipeda University.

Saltanaviciute, Jurgita, 2000. Battle for Protection: Native American Sacred Sites. M.A. Thesis. University of Wyoming

Saltanaviciute, Jurgita. 1999. Treatment of Native American Religions Throughout History and Contemporary State of Affairs. Lithuanian Journal of North American Studies, 3(1):53-60.

On the web:

OBTEST „Heathen Crusade II“ festivalyje ir istorinis koncertas indėnų rezervate JAV. http://www.ferrum.lt/f/rep/210

Egle - Queen of Grass-Snakes, http://www.digihara.com/adamkus/mokslas/egle%202.html

Lithuanian Metal Music, http://www.digihara.com/adamkus/mokslas/pagan.html