DESCRIPTION:
The Native American Music Video, "BROTHER TO ALL MEN" is a documentation of a Native American Hunting Dance. Seventy year old, Ben Boyd "BROTHER TO THE WOLF" has lived a Traditional Native Subsistence Way of Life in Alaska Indian Villages since 1975. He performed the dance while there was a shortage of caribou meat which was the main source of food for the villagers. The caribou migrated by the village around mid August, but it was getting late, and they had not come.

The spiritual leader of the village ask Boyd to go up on the mountain and dance and pray for caribou to come. Boyd took his Indian cloths and a video camera to the mountain and danced all day while moving the camera on a tripod around to different positions to record the dance. A few days later the caribou came and the village obtained meat.

The dance Boyd did was one that was taught to him by his Indian grandfather. The motions of the dance are not near as important as the mental state of the dancer. While in a state of meditation the dancer prays to summons animals through a form of mental telepathy, as that is how animals communicate.

The dance was not an Alaska Native Dance. The villagers have their own Caribou Dance that they do not do for public viewing.

"BROTHER TO ALL MEN" Music Video
All components of production and wildlife video footage by Ben Boyd.

Copies of the video or song can be obtained by contacting: boydcommunications@acsalaska.net

"BROTHER TO ALL MEN" song was Produced, Composed and Preformed by Ben Boyd

The lyrics of the song are the life story of Ben Boyd. From the time he was a small child the thing that interested him most was the cultures and spirituality of all races of people. In his life, he has lived with and participated in the cultures of white, yellow, black and red people. The song explains how he has lived with all these races but always felt alone.

Although he is more white man in the blood than Indian, as a child he spent most of his time participating in Native American activities and learning from his Indian grandfather. He grew up in small white communities in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and did not feel as though he was part of white people. He spent his summers living with his grandfather and Indian danced at Powwows in Oklahoma.
Thus the song lyrics:

When I was born, right from the start
I was a white man in the blood, but an Indian in my heart
Beat of an Indian drum was the beat of my heart
I was a Lone Wolf among white men

In Alaska he lived in Indian villages and did not Indian dance for many years. While staying in the wilderness alone for three months, a wolf came to him and stared him in the eye. Boyd could clearly see that it was time for him to start Indian dancing again and to not be apart from white people. He no longer felt alone but as though he was a brother to all men.
Thus the song lyrics:

The Wolf Spirit, gave a new start
I am brother to all men in my heart
Beat of all men's drum is the beat of my heart
I am brother to the wolf and all men

All components of production by Ben Boyd of Boyd Communications at: www.benboydalaska.com http://www.benboydalaska.com

Ben Boyd also, owns and operates Alaska Northern Lights Tours that offers a winter evening of viewing Alaska's beautiful Aurora and Ben preforms a Native Culture Show that includes live Native Hoop Dancing and a presentation about the many diverse Native Cultures of Alaska.
More info at: http://www.alaskanorthernlights.net
Boyd also has affordable Fairbanks tour packages and a Fairbanks City Tour personally given by Ben Boyd, an Alaska Mountain Man who made his living from the land using a sled dog team.
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