Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. I'm your

host Anne Comrade, Bred O'Shea and today we have on Wolf from Bands of Turtle

Island to basically give an oral history of sitting bull, the life and

legacy of chief sitting bull. Before we get into that oral history we are going

to have a sort of back and forth conversation about the construction of the

oral history and as well as touching on the Iran situation which just is

happening in real time as we speak and the Bolivia situation which is still

ongoing but before we get into all of that Wolf would you like to introduce

yourself say a bit about your background? Hello my name is Sherman Tutanka, I'm

Chatechek O'Rine of the Liguela Lakota. I go by Sherman Tutanka which means Wolf.

It's an alias. Was at DAPL sort of how I got radicalized. I would say I'm a

scientific socialist because I really don't like the whole labeling process

because then people assume a bunch of stuff about you but if you want to get

to brass tacks I would say Marxist-Leninist best describes my sort of

philosophy and it's just sort of how I interpret Marxism-Leninism which some

people wanted to agree with me on some of my interpretations I guess but I don't

know I've read enough theory to have a good basis to decide that for myself

you know. For sure. Born in Pine Ridge that's where I grew up a bit and then was

disconnected from the culture and reconnecting trying to learn the language

just because it's very difficult if people don't constantly talk around you

and Lakota to keep up with that language. It's a very phonetic language like

more I'm always very impressed like reading their tweets and like when they come

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