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Thank you new brothers and sisters for your help I see my blog has been accepted and posted. I believe I failed to provide a needed comment and that is why it took such a long time to finally appear. Today I spent some time in trying to learn some of the many things one should know regarding this senior place of promise. My tribal customs are sacred to both myself as well as to my peoples. Many are great lessons based upon centuries of how to live in good health and peace as well as lessons in brotherhood, harmony and goals in ones life. One such symbol provided to all of our tribal both young and old was a fictional character by the name of Red Sky who told stories in the form of teaching cultural lessons to his young learning rapidly nearing the age of becoming a brave. Red Sky's having many names depending upon which tribal storyteller held the captive camp fire tribal gatherings audience. These were started somewhere within the Sioux ( sounding like Sue) nations consisting of seven recognized tribes divided into 13 political subdivisions. These being a very confusing even to myself the seven major tribes (the Mdewakanton, Sisseton, Teton, Wahpekute, Wahpeton, Yankton, and Yanktonai Sioux tribes.) Know that for centuries almost total Peace existed between all Indian nations and its many geographical located tribes before the known in history as the White man and Indian Wars starting in the 1840's, we always referred to and called ourselves Redskins even before the white skined ,black skined and yellow skined peoples showed up across our lands. , (Origin. The term “Indian” is believed to have originated with Christopher Columbus, who used the word to describe Indigenous peoples in the Americas. In the late-1400s, Columbus believed he had reached Asia when, in fact, he had arrived in the Caribbean.) Red Skies signified What is to Come brought by our Nature Gods who dwelled in the Skies far above the clouds and looked down upon us at times of crisis and deep needs. It is shown that the queens Shakespeare did make such mention of Red Skies when he said something similar in his play, Venus and Adonis. “Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gusts and foul flaws to herd men and to herds.” Even In the Bible, (Matthew XVI: 2-3,) Jesus said, “When in evening, ye say, it will be fair weather: For the sky is red. And in the morning, it will be foul weather today; for the sky is red and lowering.” Weather lore has been around since people needed to predict the weather and plan their activities. Sailors and farmers relied on it to navigate ships and plant crops. Thus such Red Sky stories I shall hopefully deliver to share our rich and proud cultural beliefs and now almost vanished old ways of living thus to share Joy and celebrate life in peace and harmony!. |
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Quite hopefully and with keen interest, this the first of many comments to further expand my messages holding shared values?
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Welcome I Am Him I Don’t Live To Far From Sisseton Forget The “Black Dude” He Is A Conspiracy Theorist In Here And HES The Sick Dude Please Post Whenever You Want And Just Block Him You living so close to Sisseton might have heard of Dave Flute. He has been here three times now tos testified at our 5 year license to operate. Hopefully below might be of some interest to yourself. Thank you again. Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe’s Response to Neal Tapio By Dave Flute Chairman, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate swo-nsn.gov The Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of the Lake Traverse Reservation’s final treaty with the United States of America was ratified by Congress on February 19, 1867 (15 Stat. 506). This treaty was the outcome of the renegotiation of the Treaty of June 19, 1858 – Sisseton (12 Stat. 1031) that resulted in the loss of 469,000 acres of tribal lands. Although the U.S. Government agreed to buy the land, the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe had to sue the Federal Government in 1928 to receive payment. In 1891 Congress allowed the renegotiation of the 1867 Treaty by ratifying an agreement between the United States and the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe to open the Lake Traverse Reservation to homesteaders, causing a loss of 678,778 acres of tribal lands. These are a couple examples of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe’s experiences in treaty renegotiation. Over the past 150 years, the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe has experienced the attempts of state and federal governments to terminate, relocate, eliminate and limit tribal government. The State of South Dakota continues to disregard tribal jurisdiction and sovereignty.
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