The Brave Heart Women’s Society
The Kitchen Sisters Present
The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re celebrating Faith Spotted Eagle, an Ihanktonwan Oyate elder who has just received an honorary doctorate from South Dakota State University. We first met Faith in 2009 when we were working on our NPR Hidden World of Girls series — stories about rituals and rites of passage, of women who crossed a line, broke a trail, forged a path. That certainly describes Faith.
When we opened up a phone line for the series and asked people to tell us their stories, Faith’s daughter Brook Spotted Eagle called in and left this message.
Hi. My name is Brook Spotted Eagle. I belong to a women’s society on my reservation in South Dakota. The Brave Heart Women’s Society. My mother is one of the founding grandmother’s who has brought it back to life. Over the last 100 years we’ve lost a lot of our ceremonies. I’ll have to check with the elders, but when I saw the Hidden World of Girls I thought it would be amazing to share with other Native women the Isnati coming of age ceremony for our girls.
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| 0:00.0 | RadioTopia. Welcome to the Kitchen Sisters present. |
| 0:04.0 | From PRX. We're the Kittron Sisters, Davia Nelson, and Nikki Silva. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey there, it's Robin from PRX, and I'm here to tell you that our fellow Radiotopia show, Proxy, is back with a new season. |
| 0:18.0 | Proxy is a show built on the idea that no one is ever alone with |
| 0:21.6 | their problem, no matter how niche, no matter how weird, because somewhere out there is someone |
| 0:26.8 | who gets it. On proxy, host Yo-Wei Shaw searches for a stranger with the closest possible |
| 0:32.6 | experience to what someone is going through, a proxy, And then she brings them together for a conversation. |
| 0:38.8 | The cases can get pretty thorny, like a writer who loses the internal narrator in her head. |
| 0:43.9 | But they can also be funny, little weird problems, like a podcast host not knowing how to speak |
| 0:49.4 | bro. |
| 0:50.6 | The new season of proxy is out now. |
| 0:52.8 | A good place to start is Jane doesn't like her dogs about the terrifying moment when the thing you love starts giving you the ick. |
| 1:00.9 | Listen to Proxy wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:10.2 | My name is Faith Spotted Eagle. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm a member of the Braveheart Society. |
| 1:14.6 | As grandmas, we rented a houseboat and we went down the Missouri River, |
| 1:18.6 | and we came up with a 50-year strategic plan. |
| 1:21.6 | A primary thing is that we brought back the Ishtani Awichad Doampi. It's one of the seven sacred rites of the Dakota-Lakota-Nakota people |
| 1:32.3 | to have a coming-of-age ceremony for young girls. |
| 1:35.3 | Today we're celebrating Faith Spotted Eagle, |
| 1:38.3 | an An Actuan Dakota elder who has just received an honorary doctorate |
| 1:43.3 | from South Dakota State University. |
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