Assiniboine Chief Rosebud Remembers Lewis & Clark

oh hi hi oh hey oh hey yo a ha ha ha oh ho ho oh ho oh hey oh hey oh hey knock on me cuz I can tell he knocked or no hey whoa whoa hey hey lchi cogno oh no oh oh it was during he knew become the idol moon when my people saw them winter was over but summer had not begun the hunters were deep in Ryota meaning the big snow river bottom along the river we call mini show che you call it the Missouri other tribes call us Assiniboine the stone boilers because of the way we used to cook our food we call ourselves not Koda when the hunter saw mini washy jus coming in votes they signal the scouts who were watching over them high on the bluffs the hunters and scouts hid themselves in the Willows along the river it is said that the way she do hunters passed right under the noses of our scouts as they got back into their boats and passed by are now could that people knew they should alert the other bands at this time there were about thirty three bands of Nakota living between the White Earth and Musselshell rivers and from the little Rockies up to the cypress hills in Canada maybe 20,000 people living on these great plains this smoke signal could be seen for probably 100 miles we didn't know these people were Lewis and Clark until maybe 100 years later when we read about them in boarding school books this story of watching them come up river is from our grandfather Jerome for star his grandfather's grandfather was chief rosebud of the rock band we were camped that day at porcupine Creek when this man Clark saw the smoke from our lodges Ragab a dichotomy we are thi yeah well I'm the zombie example can be ugly Harbach we are TX kya total little bit because our base we are thi ah garbage it's like our job Sawada tonga Goomba Hinks na shall spare you hobby weird other screaming I wish I will be near who gets his abacus - okay I will gain a hunga hunga some wanted to kill a few to teach them a lesson about taking our game taking session to stab each a vinyasa today agon nick Nia washi Beach - he walk bark nya some Yabba Stan booyah Debbie Bujji are gone Oh googa we da ekta a chew cerebus harsh tatanga a new tabata wash eat you we hum na j d beats one are headed market Matt Barr on g OCH poppy huama Kasia Nietzsche boom beaked tink da yobics Nicole bogie ax a Chanin a booby the medicine man was right the washi joke came in droves 100 years after Lewis and Clark our tribe had almost Lana shhhht after the Buffalo were slaughtered we starved down to so few people that they even took the land set aside for us but the medicine man was also right when he said they would leave the homestead shacks the dotted every 160 acres are nearly gone the Prairie is mostly open again even the Buffalo are back after being gone for 125 years 200 years after Lewis and Clark people are starting to see the beauty in difference the Nakota people are celebrating the resurgence of our native language our religion our music and our dance we have all the tools to destroy ourselves but we also have the tools to free ourselves and one by one we are choosing life

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Length: 7min 14sec (434 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 08 2010