Oh, um, oh, oh, oh,

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ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, My name is Tasha Numpa, Livermont Barondo and I'm Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge. I currently live in Brookings and I've been a

journalist but mostly a homemaker and I've been a member of Billclake Writers Society for some time

and I'm really pleased to be able to introduce Dr. Ed Valondra, who is actually a cousin of mine, and he is Cichangu, Tichuan, born and raised on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation.

He received his BA and chemistry from Ancato State University, his MA in political science

from the University of Colorado Boulder and his PhD in American

Studies with a Native Studies concentration from Sumi Buffalo.

Dr. Blondres served as nation, the Chingu, Tichangu, Tihon Oiate in various capacities.

He served a four-year term on the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council and was a representative

on the Inter-Tribal Bison Cooperative.

And he has also served on his nation's seven-member constitutional task force.

So we are here because he is also the author of numerous articles and in 2006 the University of Illinois

press published his book on the termination era in the US and South Dakota

titled Not Without Our Consent, Lakota Resistance D determination from 1950 to 1959, with a forward by the late

Findeloria Jr. who he also studied under.

And so we're going to be talking about public law 83-280 and a

whole bunch of acronyms in numbers, but as HHS has told me before,

we're really good with acronyms in Indian country.

Welcome, Ed.

Well, thank you, Tashi.

It's good to be here and that I want to welcome the listeners who will listen to the podcast and I'm very happy to be here.

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