Oh God, what now?

Way, a way I. My name is Gracie Redshirt Tion and I am the director for American

Maybean Student Services at C. U. Denver.

And we are so pleased and happy that you have taken this time out of your busy schedules to join us today

to welcome one of our leaders in our community who is also Lakota and we're just

pleased and happy that and proud that he's able to be here with us today.

And we want to acknowledge all of our ancestors on this beautiful day. This morning we had a wonderful blanket of snow and

it's difficult driving around in the weather, but we welcome this winter and we welcome the snow.

We need it, as well as our plant and animal life needed.

So I like to acknowledge all the ancestors of this place.

This is the traditional and ancestral territory of the Cheyenne Aracahoe,

Ute, Lakota, Foshoni, Kiowa, Camacci, hundreds of other nations that came to this area.

And we're walking in their footsteps and they paved a wonderful path for us and we like to

remember them at this time.

And I'm going to turn the mic over to Glenn Morris,

who's been very instrumental in putting this event together today and also so

instrumental in the lives of many of us. I was a student of Glens and that's where I learned. In Glens classes I learned

so much about the history of our people and the history of the United States government,

the relationship that they have with our people,

and these are some of the topics I think that we'll be covering today.

And without further ado, I'm going to turn the mic over to Glenn.

Pilema yup. I'm going to turn the mic over to Glenn.

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