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Transcript: Chief Leonard Crow Dog

I stand for the rights of our traditional way of life

[Crow Dog:]
I’m from Rosebud Indian reserve, or Rosebud Indian Concentration Camp. I’m from there. On behalf of my Lakota People, I will help bring the understanding of our traditional or the Lakota way of life. Who are the first of the nation of the first? Where are we coming from? Who we are? We look at a story wall, and I’ve been having this dream— tremendous time, calendar time in years of the four faces. Then I have some different decoration of a human being of the sacred [in Native language] land. That’s me. I stand for the rights of our traditional way of life. We may roll and go and hear if it’s right or wrong.