Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community

If you are looking for a very interesting book to read, I recommend Dan O’Brien’s true account of his buffalo ranch.  The title is ‘Buffalo For The Broken Heart‘ Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch.  Here is a brief synopsis - For twenty years Dan has struggled to make ends meet on his South Dakota cattle ranch.  He becomes inspired at a yearly buffalo roundup, converts his ranch, The Broken Heart,to buffalo.  His journey restored the buffalo to his land for the first time in more than a century and a half.
Check it out at your local library

Becky Wiggins

by Waziyatawin (Author), Ph.D. (Author)

The story of the Dakota People in Minnesota since the  arrival of Europeans in their homeland is one that has been repeated throughout the Americas. Indigenous Peoples have suffered genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass executions, broken treaties, and land theft—a partial list of the traumatic circumstances that are still affecting Native societies today. In What Does Justice Look Like?, author Waziyatawin relates the history of her People in Minisota, providing historical details about treaty violations, resource theft, and the  deliberate destruction of Dakota culture. She shows how Dakota People paid and continue to pay the ultimate price for Minnesota’s statehood.  She then goes further, to outline a vision of what it would take for the historical harms to her People to be made right.
This book explores how we can embark on a path of transformation to respectful coexistence with those whose ancestral homeland this is. Doing justice is central to this process. Without justice, many Dakota say, healing and transformation on both sides cannot occur, and good, authentic relations cannot develop between our Peoples.

Waziyatawin is a Wahpetunwan Dakota scholar and activist of the Pezihutazizi Otunwe in southwestern Minnesota. Her book What Does Justice Look Like? offers an opportunity to learn the long-untold history and what it has meant for the Dakota People. On that basis, the book offers the further opportunity to explore what we can do between us as Peoples to reverse patterns of genocide and oppression and instead to do justice with a depth of good faith, commitment, and action that would be genuinely new for Native and non-Native relations.

What Does Justice Look Like? stands as a powerful contribution to the national and international discussion of Indigenous Peoples’ rights.

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Hello,

I just wanted to take a minute of your time to introduce one my favorite new artist. Her name is Crystal Shawanda and she is truly an amazing talent! 

Crystal pours her heart & soul into her music, because it is her lifeline.  A Native American, Crystal grew up on the Wikwemikong Indian Reserve in Ontario , Canada .  Her last name, “Shawanda” literally translates to the album title, “Dawn of a New Day” – and a new day is what music has given Crystal .   CLICK BELOW TO READ MORE

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"REZ BLUES 2006"

Recorded live at Ringside Cafe, in St. Pete, Florida. 2006. Sylvia A. Duquet, Videographer/Tam
bourine…..Chaska Denny, Slide Guitar…Curt H. St. Cyr, Harmonica Alvon Griffin,
Percussionist…This was unrehearsed and impromptu, with words and music made up on the spot

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Kirby Sattler

The work of Kirby Sattler is fueled by an inherent interest in the Indigenous Peoples of the Earth. His current images evolve from the history, ceremony, mythology, and spirituality of the Native American. Sattler’s ultra-detailed interpretations examine the inseparable relationship between the Indian and his natural world, reflecting a culture that had no hard line between the sacred and the mundane. Each painting functions on the premise that all natural phenomena have … MORE