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Tagee me Tawak in Faith, I'm talking about a child in a naghiwa, have me extra, I'm a Yankton Dakota.

And I grew up here along Manin, Wakuta, the Missouri River, Minnie Shoshohe and it's just a beautiful ceremony that we just came out of and I just

feel so uplifted on the direction that the prayers are going to take us.

So I'm glad to be here and I was here with my grandson.

So he got to be part of this historical record.

Can you talk a little bit about this area that we're in right now?

Like, what's behind you and what's here in this particular area?

So the reason, even though somebody commented that they asked,

why do you always have your events here

when you can see the ugliness of the dam?

Because the land was here before the dam and this part of the river when you look out here

this is how wide the river was this is the true width of the river so if we do it on that side, that's the reservoir or the lake that was created

and it's the taken or the destroyed land. So I always like to do it on this side because this really was the

natural flow of the river. And back then of course being a natural flow there would be floods, there would be spring floods.

Historically a bunch of our people were killed up on the river bend there because the dams did

regulate floods to a certain extent, but a whole camp was taken by surprise when the ice jams

came loose. And so that's something that they had to be careful

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