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03/24/2016 - Beatrice Weasel Bear
Funeral services for Beatrice Grace Weasel Bear, age 88, will be at 10:00 AM on Thursday, March 24, 2016 at the Beatrice Weasel Bear Residence in Slim Buttes, SD with Reverend Kirk Fool Bull and Reverend Roger Bruce officiating.
Burial will be at the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery in Slim Buttes, SD.
A two-night wake service will begin with the first night at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at the Brother Rene Hall in Oglala, SD. The second night will start at the Beatrice Weasel Bear Residence in Slim Buttes at 5:00 PM on Wednesday, March 23, 2016.
Beatrice was born on May 12, 1927 in Slim Buttes, SD to Rex Sr. and Antonia (Sierra) Long Visitor Holy Dance. She made her journey to the Spirit World on March 18, 2016 at the PineRidgeI.H.S.Hospital in Pine Ridge, SD.
Beatrice began her work with the Oglala Sioux Tribe in 1975 as a Community Health Representative and worked under the leadership of Margie Mills-Morgan and Geraldine High Elk-Janis. After serving as a CHR Representative for many years, Beatrice retired in 1995.
After one month of retirement, Beatrice took on delivering medicine to Oglala relatives throughout the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. She worked with the State of South Dakota and the Field Health I.H.S. Nursing. She worked with every age, taking medicine to a 2-year-old young boy and elderly men and women. She loved her work and was acknowledged for her service many times by the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
In 2004, she began a journey with other women powerhouses in a group called the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. These 13 women were from all over the world, and she traveled to pray at their homelands. Among those places were Mazatec-Mexico (Grandmother Julieta Casimiro), Tamang, Nepal (Grandmother Aama Bombo), Tibet (Grandmother Tsering Dolma Gyaltong), Brazilian Rainforest (Grandmother Maria Alice Campos Freire), Northern Cheyenne Reservation (Grandmother Margaret Behan-Red Spider Woman), Hopi-Havasupai (Grandmother Mona Polacca), Black Hills, SD (Grandmother Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance-Tipi Ska Win), Japan (Grandmother Clara Shinbou Iura), Mayan-Nicaragua, NM (Grandmother Flordemayo), Yu’pik, Alaska (Grandmother Rita Pitka Blumenstein), Takelma Siletz (Grandmother Agnes Pilgrim), Omyene-Gabon, Africa (Grandmother Bernadette Rebienot), and Black Hills, SD (Grandmother Beatrice Weasel Bear-Wahpe Tu Win).
Beatrice as a Grandmother put forth on the Grandmother Agenda in 2004 two very important items: return the Black Hills to the Great Sioux Nation and rescind the Papal Bulls at the Vatican, Rome.
Beatrice is survived by children Antonia Loretta (Tom) Cook, Fontanelle Pancho, Roger (Robin) Bruce, Anita (Earl) Russell, and Aloysisus John Weasel Bear; 30 grandchildren; 60 great-grandchildren; 8 great-great-grandchildren; elder sister Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance; brothers Charles “Chuck” Bennett and Cecil and Stanley Little Hawk; sisters Viola and Bessie Little Hawk and Virginia Bear; nephews Tuffy Sierra, John Bill, and Robert Sierra; nieces Glenda, Wendy, and Karlene Sierra, Inez Mesteth, Arlene Bear, and JoAnn, Susan, Felcita, Sharon, & Karen Sierra; and the Arlene Weasel Bear family.
Beatrice was preceded in death by spouse John Tex Weasel Bear; parents Rex Long Visitor Holy Dance Sr. and Antonia Sierra; brothers Pete Pretty Face, Stanley Long Visitor Holy Dance, and Rex Long Visitor Holy Dance Jr.; sister Josephine Pretty Face; one granddaughter; three grandsons; and three great-granddaughters.
Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge, SD is in charge of arrangements for Beatrice Grace Weasel Bear.
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