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Transcript: Martin Waukazoo

Educating county officials about a sweatlodge

[Lindberg:]
Now you can get a chainsaw, right?
[Waukazoo:]
Yeah, I mean that was a good story when we—
[Lindberg:]
Do you want to tell that one?
[Waukazoo:]
When they asked—we submitted a proposal for some county funding for mental health services, and in the proposal budget was a chainsaw, and I think the chainsaw was about $800, and the mental health workers called us in and said, “Why do you need a chainsaw?” Well, we need it to cut the wood for our sweat lodge. We have a sweat lodge out in [indiscernible]. “And what is a sweat lodge?” So we were educating the contract people, and they approved it. So, you know, so we got mental health funding to purchase a chainsaw.
[Lindberg:]
Good for you.