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oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

ooh, oh, oh, oh, I'm a member of the Oak Lake Writers and we're going to discuss with Kate Bean

One of the selections of the one book Charles Eastman's works,

Sullivan Indian, and I've been a longtime member

of the Oak Lake Writers Organization,

and I'll let Kate Bean introduce yourself.

Hi, I'm talking to Kate Bean and Machia

upier.

Hello, my relatives, my name is Kate Bean.

I am a director of Native American initiatives at the Minnesota

Historical Society and a public historian living in Minneapolis in Breoota, Manes,

happy to be here today.

Okay, Kate, let's start with some of the activities that you did surrounding your research to do the film on

Charles Eastman and how it relates to Solove an Indian?

Yeah, so, you know, my grandmother, Lillian Moore Bean,

was a granddaughter of John Eastman, Charles Eastman's brother.

And so I grew up hearing a lot of stories about our grandparents and and it was interesting when I when I went

to college and started reading some of Grandpa Charles books and the ways in which sometimes he was talked

about and written about was very different than the stories that were passed down as just a person, you know, as a human being and I felt like

there was this stark difference and and so I started researching more around his life in order to understand the lives of our family members and the ways in which we are connected, disconnected over time and just trying to understand

where I come from and where my family comes from so that I would know our family story and

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