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Show Life Of Indian Artist Changed When He Joined The Church RAPID CITY, S.D. My life changed. It just turned around and went in a different direction when I joined the Church," said Indian artist, Herman Red Elk of Rapid City. He has been a member of the Church since 1964. Today his life is his six children, his paintings and the Church. Five of his children are on the Indian placement program in Idaho. The placement program is the greatest thing that can happen to the Indian youth. As converts to file Church our children can learn how to live the GospeL It helps build a strong future for them," Mr. Red Elk said. It is wonderful when the whole family is home and we can learn together," be added. A Man Of Many Talents He Enjoys Painting, Music SANTIAGO, CHILE Like Joseph of old, Roberto Hansen is a man with a coat of many colors figuratively speaking. Mr. Hansen is one of the devoted teachers in the Church school system In Chile. He teaches world and Chilean histccy, French, manual crafts anil mathematics When file school year started a month or two ago he was named director of the a School, one of the new units in the Church system. But Ids great loves are art and the Church. Mr. Hansea has a great talent in landscape painting as weS as cartooning. I teed to make my living at painting, but now I do it for file love of it and teach it occasionally. I love making original Christmas cards for the missionaries for Sis-tem- that someone special at home, he mid. He was educated in Valparaiso and Santiago and studied in the School of Fine Arts at Vina del Mar. He also likes music and is pianist and organist in one of the Santiago branches. He also composes music. A member of the Church for only four years, Mr. Hansen is in the work wholeheartedly. My sister had been a member for many years and she was continually telling me about the Gospel. Finally I called mission headquarters and asked for the missionaries to call on me, he said. Hes all for the missionary system. He now has a bank account in his daughters name and it is for her mission when she comes of age. Mr. Red Elk had been sketching all his life, but didn't seriously give attention to painting until he was forced to leave the construction business because of ill health. He was impressed and inspired by the Sioux Indian art and began to paint. He studied at Black Hills College, University of South Dakota, and with Oscar Howe, outstanding modern Indian artist. Herman Red Elk has put his art to work in his Church assignments. He was Sunday School superintendent of the Rapid City Indian Branch and is now first counselor in the branch presidency. Each month he does the art work for the cover of file Lamanite, the mission magazine. Hermans art work has been displayed throughout the country. He is especially noted for his modern painting of the eagle and buffalo dance, and for his hide paints of Sioux patterns and designs of buffalo skins. The Gospel is the only way to live. My 0 m brother is Gerald Red Elk, branch The Gospel Any person can be strong in upholding their standards if they want to. That's the philosophy for living of Meteliko Tuiesca (Jack Meteliko) a Ton-ga- n graduate of Brigham Young University Metelike Tuiesca, a graduate of a rising vocal star. BYU, is Herman Red Elk . . . a member since 1964 president of Poplar Branch in Poplar, I am proud of him, Mr. Red Elk said. I wish more of my Indian brothers1 and sisters could see and realize what the Gospel can do. Mont. Is Not Hard To Live1 and a rising vocal star in the popular music world less of how high up business, he said. Jack, whose father recently was ordained bishop in one of the wards in the Nukualofa Stake, has cut his first record and is visiting various U.S. cities on a promotional tour of radio and television stations to get them to use his record. He attended high school in Nukualofa on Tongatapu, and then went to the Church College of Hawaii to study music. He also worked at the Polynesian Cultural Cento- in Laie to help pay for his education and then went to BYU. "Too many people think because a person is in show business that he is at the bottom of the moral ladder. This isnt so. Any person can be strong in upholding their standards if they want to. I intend to uphold the standards of the Church regard go in show He worked his way through the Provo university at various jobs and during the summer vacation period sang in the Ton-ga- n Room in a hotel in San Francisco. He is helping out a brother and a sister, financially, so they can attend college in Hawaii. WEfcK ENDING JUNE ' I might .IiUi (I; , 21, 1969 CHURCH-- 15 , t . , |
