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Ryan Dial-Stanley is a Native American storyteller from the Lumbee tribe who grew up in North Carolina attending powwows. He shares Lumbee arts and culture through storytelling, dancing, flute playing and painting to teach about history, culture, and modern Native American life. As a featured artist and coordinator, he has extensive experience performing for audiences of all ages to create understanding and build community.
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MTA RyanDialStanley

Ryan Dial-Stanley is a Native American storyteller from the Lumbee tribe who grew up in North Carolina attending powwows. He shares Lumbee arts and culture through storytelling, dancing, flute playing and painting to teach about history, culture, and modern Native American life. As a featured artist and coordinator, he has extensive experience performing for audiences of all ages to create understanding and build community.
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Ryan Dial-Stanley Originally from the Winston-Salem area and a member of the Lumbee

tribe, RYAN DIAL-STANLEY grew up attending powwows across North


Native American storytelling | Native American performing Carolina. He participated first as a dancer and later as a storyteller, once
his mother, a storyteller herself, was satisfied that he knew traditional
Lumbee narratives well enough to deliver their messages not through ver-
batim memorization, but in his own unique style. Today he is dedicated to
sharing Lumbee arts and culture across many genres including storytelling,
dancing, flute playing, and deer hide painting, as well as organizing and
emceeing powwows and other events.
Through his performances, Dial-Stanley honors the role of storytelling in
North Carolina Native American communities as an educational method.
Not only does he teach about history and culture, but he also conveys the
joys and struggles of being Lumbee in the modern world. “I’m trying to
create allies everywhere I go,” he explains, “and I think that begins with
people just knowing about Native people’s lives... I view it kind of like puz-
zle pieces, like every piece I give them just helps them get a clearer picture

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of how Native Americans lived historically, but also, more importantly, how
Native Americans live now.”
Dial-Stanley has extensive experience performing for audiences of many
sizes and age groups, including school groups. He has been a featured artist
at Tryon Palace in New Bern, coordinator of the Lexington Multicultural
Festival’s Native American Village, and Chair of the powwow committee for
the Carolina Indian Circle in Chapel Hill. While working as a Medical Lab-
oratory Scientist at UNC Medical Center and completing a Masters degree
in clinical lab science, he remains involved in Native American communi-
ty-building and advocacy in the Chapel Hill area.
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Ryan Dial-Stanley will consider invitations to demonstrate and teach about
Lumbee storytelling, music, dance, and visual arts, as well as opportunities
to coordinate and emcee events and multicultural festivals.

Chapel Hill, Orange County, NC


[email protected]
“Native American Storyteller: Ryan Dial-Stanley”
https://youtu.be/DEbRqrVE8kU

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