Partial Listing of JJ's Recent University Appearances

 - Missouri State University

 -  University of
   Tennessee 
   at Martin

- Middle Tennessee
   University

- University
   of Alabama

- Keene State New Hampshire

-University of Alabama at Huntsville

 - Oregon State University

- Tennessee State University

- Somerset College

- Sewanee

- Valparaiso University Indiana

- Troy State Alabama

JJ Kent is a multi-cultural speaker and educator for various schools and universities around the US and Canada on the Native American customs of the Oglala Lakota (also known as the "Sioux"). He is a professional university facilitator and presents to large audiences, usually between 500 and 2000 people. JJ  brings a professional and artist-illustrated PowerPoint presentation that supports his speaking on such topics as:

• The Oglala Lakota Nation
• Diversity of Native American Tribes
• Significance of the Buffalo
• The Indigenous Plains Tipi
• White Buffalo Calf Woman
  
• Oral Culture of Storytelling
• Native American Courting Flute

JJ is also a gifted storyteller in the ancient ways of the Lakota.  Holding the audience spellbound, he weaves into the rich tones of story, with magnificently illustrated slides that visually enhance the experience.   He also shows a short movie video that captures the majesty of the plains and mountains of South Dakota and Wyoming, replete with a lightening storm, running buffalo, and pictures of old warriors. Later in the presentation JJ talks about the Warrior Societies and performs a captivating war dance on stage. Throughout, and following the presentation, JJ performs a concert of his flute music.

Click the player to sample JJ's storytelling: "The First Flute" (from the award winning album Tate' Topa Win)





JJ at Keene College September 2009