Pete (Petaga Yuha Mani) Catches

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Pete (Petaga Yuha Mani) Catches

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Birthplace: Pine Ridge, SD, United States
Death: December 03, 1993 (81)
Manderson-White Horse Creek, SD, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Paul Catches and Annie Jennie Face
Husband of Amelia Catches
Father of Private; Private; Peter Vitus (Zintkala Oyate) Catches and Paul W Catches
Brother of Annie Catches; Alice Catches; Lucy Catches; James Joseph "Jim" Catches; Theresa Catches and 2 others

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About Pete (Petaga Yuha Mani) Catches

Pete Catches Sr. (Petaga Yuha Mani - He Who Walks With Hot Coals) lived on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota throughout his life, and for decades healed and instructed both Natives and non-Natives near his home and off the reservation. He is credited with reviving the Wiwangyang Wacipi (Sundance) among the Lakota in the early 1960's. In 1964, he was named Sundance chief by the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council, the only such distinction in tribal history. Read more...

"My father was named Pete Catches Sr. and known as Petaga Yuha Mani (He who walks with hot coals). As far as we can count back he was a 37th generation medicine man. In Lakota society, to be a medicine man, it has to be in the blood line, the DNA so to speak." - Peter V. Catches, quoted in an interview with Heyoka Magazine.

Interview with his son Peter V. Catches, Jr.: http://mbdodd.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/1/6/14162844/lakota-medicine-m...

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Pete (Petaga Yuha Mani) Catches's Timeline

1912
March 17, 1912
Pine Ridge, SD, United States
1955
June 16, 1955
Pine Ridge, Shannon County, South Dakota, United States
1993
December 3, 1993
Age 81
Manderson-White Horse Creek, SD, United States
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