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WHITE PEOPLE & THE LAKOTA PEOPLE

The Lakota were brave sharing their rituals, and traditions with tribes who had lost their way, and lost their traditions because of the white man's pen, his gun, and the missionaries. Lakota people have been studied, measured, and quoted more than any other nation, but remain invisible. How? How could that be?

About 10% of the nation practices their traditions; I was told when I last visited Pine Ridge. 10%, and violent LA gangs are doing business on the rez. The poverty is staggering, and every winter is guaranteed freezing cold weather with limited food and fuel to sustain people through the season. Suicides and rapes are up, and just outside of the reservation is a liquor store legally selling alcohol to Lakota men and women. The land is beautiful, breathtaking and full of the glory days, and the old battles, but the People suffer deeply, and are poor; the poorest in the nation I am told every year.

People need their healing. The Red prophecies are true. The grandchildren of those who killed us have come to our lodges, and ceremonies for healing, but practical spirituality is in the building of sustainable economies also. – Gregory E. Woods (Alowan Chanteh Inyan Wichasha) 11.13.12

mysterious aspect of an Indian woman robed in snow
by Madeline Bernadette Scott