 Hello, my name is Chief Plentywolf. I come off the crazy horse band of the Oglala La Jota from the Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota. I like to start off with purifying the air, purifying people. So everything comes out in a positive way. When we look at life, always try to look at life in a positive way because there's too many negativities, too many negative things happening in today's world. And so I try to start off with a smudge. Even just smudging the room clears that way. What I do is I have given assistance from the Creator with the Spirit, what I call angels that come and help. In my ceremonies they come and help me. So it's not my choice to do what I do, it's the Creator's choice. And through visions that's how I was chosen. And so that's why I have to walk in this way of life. I don't have to, but I'd be gone already. So it's an honor, but it's also scary. It's really, really hard. Like Ryan said, it's difficult to walk this way of life because you have to really put everyone first. Always put yourself last. And follow the La Jota values, the 7 La Jota values, the basic values. I think they moved it up to 12, but the 7 is what the main values are. So anyway, at this time I'm going to say a short prayer for everyone, for everyone's family. Anyway, this is a prayer song. And what it means is Creator, look at me and hear my prayer. Look at me and hear my prayer. Have pity on me and listen to my prayers and make my prayers good and for everybody, for all of you and your families, because I know you have families out there and the people that need it. Those are the people that really need our prayers. So anyway, here. Thank you very much. Anyway, people ask me why this Indian wears a boots and a hat. That's how I grew up. I grew up in Nebraska. I grew up on a part ranch and farm after I left the reservation. And my father took us. He went and got a job in the next state over from the Pine Ridge Reservation because all of his kids were getting sent to boarding schools and he wanted to save us. So I went to boarding school for a couple summers. He wanted to save us from being away, taken away from the family. So he took a job and so I started. We grew up in Nebraska. And when you grow up in a ranch style way, you learn to ride horses and take care of cattle and all that stuff. And when I moved back to the reservation, there was in charge of the ranch that he hired us. Me and my brother and my uncles to take and check the cattle. So we rode horse from before the sun came up until after it went down. And of course, when you do that, you want to have fun. So then there comes the rodeo. So we rode rodeo, bulls and bearback horses and saddle bronc. And through all this life, different people learn from different experiences. I had to go through all this, but to begin with, when I was about seven years old, the creator gave me a dream, a vision scared the heck out of me. So I went and I told my parents, my aunt and uncle, and I remember exactly we were going, we were taking them home, and we were in a car and I told them and they said, you're too young. It'll come back to you. Someday we'll pray for you. But at that time, both my grandfathers, my dad's dad and his brother were still alive. And his brother was a UEP man, a medicine man. And so when I told them, they said pray and everything will be okay. Someday it'll come back. So I did and then I continued on life, whatever I was supposed to do. I grew up, like I said, on the ranch. I think it was like my sophomore year in high school. We went to Pine Ridge. And I don't know if anybody knows where Pine Ridge is. It's a five-year-old's car. They gave him our train there. My mother jumped back on the train. That's a joke we have because over in Boulder where we keep our sweat lodge, a train like this goes by the sweat lodge. Every time it comes by, it's like a timing. Before we start the ceremony, just before we start the ceremony, that train goes by and it's like, oh my God, the spirits are here now. So this is a joke. It seemed like when we finished, it was my again. So we went to Pine Ridge one day a month, and then I went to Pine Ridge one day and he said, we were bored. My grandpa had to do a business at the tribal office so he went in and we got bored and we were looking at where he parked. What right in front of us was the recruiting offices. So he said, well, let's go and see what we have to say. And so we went in there. First, I said, let's go to the Marine office first. And he said, well, let's go to the Army recruiting first. So we went in here just out of curiosity. I just turned 17. Out of curiosity, we walked in there two weeks later when we were in the Army. I just turned 17. And I was like, okay, well, this is what I signed up for. And I guess this is where we're going to go. But after three weeks of waiting to go over there, they finally said, well, you're not going. Our unit's not going because we're starting to pull people out. And I found out later that the Fourth Infantry Division, every time they dropped them into the border of Cambodia and Vietnam, they all got wiped out. The whole unit got wiped out. But they kept on sending reinforcements in to get wiped out. And that's where I was headed. And so in life, a lot of things that happened, I came to understand that I had to experience all that. But also in life, I understood why the Creator chose me to be where I'm at today because basically the Creator saved me from all these things. And when I looked back at everything, I got in seven car accidents that I shouldn't have. They were pretty bad ones. And I also came out of those. I looked back at life and everything to us in a spiritual way, four and seven are sacred numbers. And it adds up. I started doing these ceremonies and 28 years later, after I went through, finished my 28th year, it opened the doors. I also understood that there's a reason for everything in life. And so I looked at, I thought about that. And I said, well, I'm going to try my best. I'm going to try my best to spread the word of how and what I know and how I feel because, like I said, Creator chose me to lead ceremony. And if you think about it, the 28th year, that's four times seven, four, seven. And when I spoke in, what was that at university? I spoke at, so yeah, you know, there was an auditorium full of young people. And I said, this is beautiful because they need to hear this. And when I spoke there, I looked at the, what was it, the month or day of the month? And it was the 28th. Yeah. And I didn't realize that until I was talking. And I just happened to look at my time because I wanted to see what time it is. And then the date came up and I was like, hey, it's the 28th. So in life, a lot of things are either added up or multiplied by or seven, four or seven. And so just like our sweat ceremonies, there's four doors. You know, we're not, we can't do three because it's not a complete ceremony. You know, you just wasted that much time, sort of. You can't do five because you're asking for more. You're asking for more problems, more issues. And so you don't overdo that. And so, you know, you have to keep it right at four. There's, you know, for us, medicine people, we have to use 28 rocks, 28 grandfathers, 28 stones. Because, you know, again, that's four times seven. And that's what we're supposed to use. And some of the healing ceremonies I use 104. That's what my Ho Chokka, my altar requires. So anyway, in life, you know, I look back and I said, okay, well, all these make sense all the way up. And I understood that there are certain things that pull, that pull you, that want you to, and just like you were saying, you want to go back to Arizona. But that is the desert because it's pulling you. There's a reason for that because either away from that too long or you need to reconnect where you're supposed to, where you're used to, where you were raised from or born from. So you pray about that and then you say, okay, well, I'm going to make it happen. And if it does happen, that's your, it's supposed to be that way. Also in life, I have a lot of deja vu. And deja vu is like, oh yeah, I've been here. I've been through this or I see, we were here. We've done this. And that means that we're on the right track. We're doing what we're supposed to be doing. And so that's how I look at things and I was like, okay, good, let's keep praying. But also in life, there's all certain negativity, certain people have negativity. I'm supposed to help them with and there's a reason for that because that's what they need, the help that they need, the prayers that they need to get over this roadblock or this health issue or this family issue or legal issue, health issue. I help them try to get over that. A lot of people just solely just concentrate or they think that whatever problem that they come to, they focus on that instead of looking beyond that. Looking beyond with prayer, it's not going to stay there forever. Somehow, someway it's going to get resolved and somehow it's going to be taken care of, because it's going to take you and the Creator to do that, to overcome that because I look at it as like a speed bump. We come up to a speed bump and people focus on that speed bump because you got to go slow or whatever to get over that hump. People don't look at the other side where the road is smooth again, because it's not going to stay there and some people get too carried away and concentrate on that speed bump and they scream and yell and think that everything's over with. And so I explain it to them in that way. But back to these values, these Lakota values respect, the honor, humility. My grandfather taught me these long time ago when I was little and in life, every time I came to a speed bump or my life thought it was hopeless or some kind of an issue where it was hard for me to overcome, one thing that comes back to me is what he told me. It's only one of these or a couple of these. But that's all I had to remember. He said, he told me, he said, He says, wherever you're at, help people and conduct yourself in a humble way and everything will be okay. And when I do that, I get over that. So my objective is not just for the young people, but for everyone. If you can follow these seven values, Lakota values, it'll help. And if you teach the young people these values, it'll help them in life. And it can make a big difference. In our way, we don't have a word for I love you. Because in our way, what we say is, I hold you in my heart. And so in our way, we automatically know I've never heard my grandpa, my mom, or my father ever tell me I love you. But because of these values, I automatically knew and I automatically knew that I was loved and they knew I loved them. So with these values, it helped me through life. And I tried to teach that to my children, my grandchildren. I tried to teach that to all the young people. And that way, it'll have a positive impact. In today's world, in today's society, it's getting harder and harder. Because issues like, and we were just talking about it, like what happened in Fukushima? When Ryan and I took me to see the beach a beacon speech yesterday. I went out there and it was beautiful in a surface, kind of a little chilly, but we were out there. And I looked out, I looked at the surface and I looked beyond the surface. And out there, I don't know, I'm thinking, it's hard to judge distance, but I'm thinking like maybe a thousand yards or beyond that, you know. I looked at it and all of a sudden the water turned red. Out there, the water turned red and the first thing that came to my mind was Fukushima. And I said, I wonder if people are really getting affected by these surfers, these swimmers or whatever. And so I prayed. And I said, you know, this is all these issues. You know, we have to think about and pray about. And I know that we're guilty of that too, but you know, the use of oil, the petroleum and what it does to the air, you know, what it does to the ground, what it does to if it, you know, and it's constantly, these oil pipelines are constantly breaking and it's contaminating our water system underneath, you know. Water is our first medicine that the Creator gave us. We're all made of water, you know. They say scientifically what? 60% of our body's water, 83% of our heart and lungs are made of water, you know. We, everything needs water. Plants need water to grow, grass needs water, everything. Animals, birds, everything needs good water. And back on my reservation, because of uranium mining, a lot of people drink in bad water, you know. And there's health issues that come, a whole bunch of health issues that come from them. And it's all over the place. And like I said, we're guilty of it because we drive vehicles. We fly, you know, in planes to get from 1.8 to 1.8 to be faster, you know. I thought about that. I was like, if I go back to horses, man, it's going to take me forever to get there. I'll still be coming someplace over there in the Rockies this way. But, you know, we did it before, you know. But there's also, you know, there's also already electric cars. The Japanese already invented cars that run off of water, you know. How come we can't convert? Other countries are trying to. Wind and solar energy, how come we can't do it? Why do we have to focus on digging as much oil from the ground as possible? We, Lakota people, look at oil as the blood of Ojima's grandmother earth. That's the blood, the life blood of grandmother earth. And we start taking that blood out. That blood, she's going to get weaker and weaker. And then that's where it affects the climate, the air around it. And when it affects the air around it, then these things start to get a little bit more worse, like storms, hurricanes, tsunamis, volcanoes, all these earthquakes. You know, it creates earthquakes. It disturbs Ojima's heart. So, even though, you know, it doesn't happen, and everybody should be used to it here, but earthquakes. But, you know, there's a reason for that, you know. There's a reason for all these, some of it's natural, but a lot of it's man-made. And I worry, I think, about the future of our children and our grandchildren and their children. Because the way I saw it and the way that I feel is that within 50 years we're going to self-destruct. But the other day, somebody said, it's going to start in 2022. And I was thinking about 2022, that's only a couple of years. You know, that's only three, four years down the road. I mean, that's quick. And in my lifetime, I remember that when I grew up, my grandpa raised us. We mean my brother when we were little. We used to live in a log cabin. And it took, I think it was like maybe a quarter of a mile. We used to go downhill and into the woods and there was a creek called Whitehorse Creek. And we used to take our buckets and bring the water, fill those buckets up, you know, they're so big. Fill those buckets up and we used to head back up. Because my grandpa was too old. I mean, he barely walked. So we chopped wood, but we also went after our drinking water, you know. And so a cooking water too, you know. So we'd grab that and we'd take off. My brother was, you know, two years younger than I was. And by the time we got home, we only had like half a bucket each. But, you know, still, you know, we got it up there, you know. And it was good water. I mean, you know, we drank that water. It came from a spring about four or five miles up the river, up the creek. Nowadays, we have one of our sacred ceremonies, a sundown ceremony right beside Whitehorse Creek. And when you look at that water, you don't even touch it. Because that's how, and plus more people live there through there. And that's the way it is all over the place. We knew that Missouri was already contaminated, but we're trying to save as much of it as we can. And that's where Standing Rock came in. When the Keystone XL Pipeline was first being planned and started to be built, I was inside of a ceremony. And I told the people that came and joined me. I said, you know, if they continue, and if they get hit into Nebraska, I said, I'm going to load my Chinupa. It's a pipe that I pray with, a connection to the creator. And the Eagle Staff. And I'm going to stand in front of that Keystone XL Pipeline and pray, and pray that it doesn't go through. Well, after that ceremony, a couple of weeks later, it stopped. They didn't, they weren't going to, they stopped it. So I said, great, you know. And all of a sudden, you know, the next thing that came up was Standing Rock, the double, you know, the pipeline up there. And I was like, you know, I made a commitment to do this, but that was Keystone XL, and this is a different pipeline. So I guess I don't have to go, you know, that's what I was thinking. You know, I was trying to make an excuse. But what happened was it kept on pulling at me, you know, just like what we talked about, you know, it just kept on pulling at me. Like, there's a, I needed to be there. But at the time, I couldn't be there because I didn't have no way, I didn't have no funds. I, you know, I was thinking, okay, well, I have a vehicle, but I, you know, I don't have any money. I can't make it up there, you know. So that was another excuse that I had, you know. I was like, okay, well, I got to do this and do that. But it kept on pulling at me. I was like, I need to be there. For some reason, I need to be there. What we were, what these young people were focusing on was to save the Missouri from getting any more contamination. At first, when it first started, it was above Bismarck. But because of the city, because they didn't want their water contaminated, they voted to move it further south, right above Standing Rock. And so the pipeline was supposed to go through there. And that's what they were guaranteed break, because I asked one of them, and I think he was what he called a person being sent in to try to convert people into supporting the oil company. And I, what do you call them, trolls? Lobbyists. Yeah, lobbyists or whatever. And I was talking to him, and it didn't take me long to figure out, you know, this infiltrator, you know. Because of the question, why don't you support oil? How come you, you know. And I was like, why is he, isn't that? He's in our camp, you know. But they were all over, I guess. And he said that, he told me, he said that he used to, and this is his story, he used to work on pipelines. So I was like, okay, I said, how good are these pipelines? You know, he says, they're pretty good. So I was like, okay, well, how many years can you guarantee for it not to break? They averaged about 20 years, he said. 20 years, that's what they've estimated it at. So I was like, but, he said they can break in nine, you know, nine, 10 years. So I looked at him, I was like, so you're saying that it's a guaranteed break. Whether it's 10, 20, 30, 40 years, it's a guaranteed break. And he said, yeah, it'll break. So sooner or later, that pipeline is going to break. It's guaranteed contamination. And if you look at the map where it's coming through above Standing Rock, if it breaks through further, a little further down, we've got Oglala Aquifer. It's the biggest aquifer in the United States. And that serves water for a lot of people. So at the beginning, these young people were worried about their contamination on Standing Rock. But when I got there, I was like, wait a minute, this is not just for the people, of Standing Rock, it affects all the people down the Missouri. It affects all the people that depend on the Oglala Aquifer. And not only you have to think about not just the people, but all the wildlife and all the birds and all the fish that are in that water, all the plants, all the medicine plants that are growing along that water and away from that water, because a lot of them are getting piped down. And then I thought about Mani Wichoni as a project that we pipe our water from the Missouri River all the way halfway across the South Dakota to Pine Ridge, and that's where drinking water. And even that, they have to put chlorine in it to purify it more, because somehow it got contaminated. So then I thought about that, and I was like, and then, okay, it went beyond that. So now it affects the farmers and the ranchers. Farmers have to go crops with water, and they have to put it to market. The ranchers have to raise cattle, sheep, or whatever, and to put it into market, and if they can't do that, then it affects the consumers. And then it goes into food shortage and it affects everybody in spreads and keeps on going. So I realized that this isn't just for Standing Rock, it's for everybody that uses that Missouri on both sides. And then it affects, it goes further out. And then I said, you know what, other countries are going through the same thing. And so it's affecting the whole world. And so this water, this life, the life that we have to, that medicine that we have to have is getting jeopardized. Every single day. Because then thoughts like, when I was thinking a long time ago, we used to fish in this river. It's a pretty white river called the White River. And it came through Nebraska and into South Dakota and kept on winding around. And we used to catch catfish, but that big, you know, big ones. And my grandpa used to do that. Now it's dry. It's been dry for a couple of decades. At first it was muddy. And then now it's the only time it fills up is the rainy season. But there used to be rushing river. But because it gets blocked off and because Wrenches said, okay, well, I need this water, so I'm going to just dam it off. And I kept on going. By the time it got to us, there's nothing. So these things like that, it affects the livelihood of everyone. With all these issues that come up. And I know there's a lot of problems. There's a lot of other problems. There's health issues. You know, Monsanto had no good for the food. It's either food, the air, or, you know, the water. And when it affects us in that way, you know, what are our kids going to do? What are our children not going to do? How are they going to survive? Do we think about that? Do these oil companies think about? No, they don't. They just think about that dollar. But because society around this world made it so that we depend on the money, that dollar, that money, it can't change that. You know, I can't go to a store and get some food without that money. You know, I can ask for it, but they're not going to give it to me because they're thinking about that money. You know, so society has made it so we were dependent on it. And it's throughout this world. And when they were dependent on it, and these corporations are so big that now they run the government. The governments. And so what I'm saying is that I've been trying to, and I think I'm making a little bit of progress. I'm trying to spread the word that the seventh generation, the seventh generation, which is our young people, the young people that are up at Standing Rock, when I was young, they explained to me that the seventh generation is our indigenous people that are coming up. In the next couple of generations, but back then. Now we're there, seventh generation's here. When I was up at Standing Rock, I realized that the seventh generation is all the people in that age category now around this world. They're, they need our support. They need, and it's going to take more than just where it's going to need our help. They're the ones that are going to save humanity. But they need help. And just like, it's the same thing, just like that gun control thing, where all these high school students or all these school students walked off and protested, you know, not only in the state capital, but in Washington, you know, they got together and they told everybody, you know, it's our turn to vote. We're going to make changes. It's the same thing with the seventh generation. They're the same people's age group. They're going to make changes and they need our support. Because we need to make positive, we need to make positive decisions in how this earth is going to keep going. And we're going to prolong it. Eventually, on the other hand, Grandmother Earth is going to purify itself. You know, it's not really going to purify itself. But we don't have to make it man-made sooner. You know, we don't have to make it next week. You know, we can prolong it and make changes. And so this one, I'll never forget, they showed me the river way down below and they said, look how far it went down. So I said, I looked at that. And then I looked to the left in a distance. There was two nuclear power plants, one. And that's another thing we have to get rid of. And granted, that's power, but it goes back to if man can get power from the sun, the solar, wind, how come we don't do that? Why can't we do that to think about our children and our grandchildren, our future? We can't be so selfish just to think about ourselves now. Just because we're okay. We have to think ahead. We all are in this together. What did they say? We're all in the same boat. It just isn't certain groups of people or races or ages or whatever. We're all in that same, we only have one earth. And so we have to think about that. And we have to work in a positive way where we spread this word and support the seventh generation so they can make changes in the government, make changes in the energy, make changes in a good way of life, you know. Instead of being violent and everything being negative, you know, I know there's different issues all over the world, but there's one thing that I think about is you think beyond that. How are we going to save ourselves from self-destruction? How are we going to... We have to think about everybody, not just ourselves, but the ones that can't speak for themselves. The four lakes, the ones that fly, the fish, the little grass that grows, the plants, these plants. Plants are alive. They listen. They hear you. Trees are alive. Everything's alive. Everything that grows has what we call a nari, a spirit. When it grows, even a blade of grass has a nari, a spirit. And it needs water to grow, you know. So, you know, you think about all this, even air. Air moves. Air has a spirit. Everything around us, the spirit is within us. Creator is in with us. Creator is in with everything that grows. We're all in this as one. Because we have that connection, that connection. The Lakhuta people were sent, the white buffalo calf woman, to teach us seven sacred ceremonies. Every year we go again, seven sacred ceremonies. When you go through these seven sacred ceremonies, the direct connect, because we were having a hard time and because we were facing extinction. Sent this person down, this young woman, white buffalo calf woman, to show us that she brought us the pipe, the chanupa. So we have that connection. They said, anytime you have a hard time, when she finished teaching us this, and before she left, she says, anytime the people have a hard time, you put this together and you pray. It's a direct connection. So it's a creator. It's kind of hard to explain because you have to see that and experience it in order for you to believe it. You know, there's a lot of things out there or it could be in here too, that connect with you. The angels, what I call them, spirits. They come, they help in ceremony. It's like you believe in really a person that always tells the truth and one day they tell you, I've seen a flying saucer just the other day and it looked like this and like that and I was like, okay, well I believe you. Yeah, I believe you see all that. But in the back of your mind, you're going to have that little bitty doubt because you didn't see it yourself. There's a lot of things that I experienced and a lot of things that I went through, a lot of ceremonies, a lot of spirit helpers, a lot of answered prayers, I should say, that only the creator can do. And whether I can explain it over and over, but unless you go through it, then you'll understand. And some of you probably already do. You already believe that there's a higher power in prayer because sooner or later, we need them. Everybody needs them. Sooner or later, there's something that happens in life, in your life, whether it's your family or something that's connected to you or somebody asks for it, pray for me. You're going to need that prayer and it's good to know that the creator is always there because part of that creation is within us. That's why the cycle of life, you understand that. It's really hard to let people go when it's their time to go. It's really hard. But once you understand that cycle of life, our body comes from Earth, our body goes back to Earth, our spirit takes off, hits that Milky Way and heads south. But that's how we believe in the Lakota Way, the Milky Way. It's called the Naray Chankur, the spirit road. Gets up there and takes off. Pray for a good journey, be happy for them because we're going to be there. It's inevitable that everybody's going to be there. Eventually, we just have a different train ride, plane ride, whatever you want to call it. It's booked for us wherever. So you always take that and live every day as best you can, as positive as you can in prayer and things will go good for you. But we've got a big problem. I could say, well, we have this issue about guns, we have this issue about cancer, or we have this issue about some kind of health issue or environmental issue. But overall, we've got to think in the big picture, okay, the environmental issue, yeah, climate change. It's quick. It's happening. Even the Inuits from Alaska, they know that the glaciers are changing, they're melting faster. The studies done, the ice caps used to be really big now they're shrinking. The oceans are rising. Because of that, climate change, access of the Earth is tilting a little bit. We don't notice it, but it did. That's why, what do you think these storms go further south? Why do you think we were in Colorado, we haven't had a winter? It snowed a couple of times, two or three inches, but we used to have the lizards. We used to have feats, feats of snow. We've had them in a couple of years, two or three years. It's changing. But just because I can go down to the gas station or grocery store and oh, they still got food. I've seen one time that it was so bad of a blizzard, went to the store to pick up bread and all the shelves were empty because the trucks couldn't come in. And I started to think, what happens if this happens all over the place? What are people going to do? Do they know how to look at what grows and what to eat, how to fish? How even to kill game? You know, we pray. Every time we take a deer's life, we pray. We pray for that spirit because it's saving us. And so, when something like that happens, everybody goes in chaos. Everybody's worried. Everybody's frantic. Everybody's saying, how are we going to make it down to the next grocery store? So what do you think if this grocery store is going to the same thing? The next grocery store is going to be the same thing? Well, I go all the way there to find out. But things like that, you know, you think about. And like I said, Standing Rock brought the seventh generation, not just from there, not just from across the United States, but from around the world, it brought them together. It's making them look at reality. And there are the ones that are changing. What they see for young people is really great because nobody else thinks about it, you know? There are the ones that are going to make the difference. And so that's why, you know, I hope that people, you know, spread this word and keep on spreading this word all over. And I'm going to do my best because, you know, like I said, society made it where it takes money, you know? And I even need somehow to raise money to get to these countries, you know? One at a time, not just think about it. Well, okay, what's the next worst place, you know? But it's happening all over, you know? Digging up on Oji Makai in Africa, in South America, Central America, just because of what they can get to sell. How to make that money? It's all over the world. You know, when I was talking at that university, they gave me a bottle of water and I was like, look, a long time ago, when I was young, I never thought I'd buy water. I never bought, you know, sooner or later, you know, and they sell air too, you know? And so if we have to pay for both, then what else? I mean, and now we can't even collect rainwater. We used to do that. My grandpa used to use to have big barrels. Rainwater came in there. We'd clean off the top and we'd drink that, you know? That was our cooking and drinking water, you know, besides the creek. But nowadays you can't do that because it's against law. You can go to jail for doing that, you know? So things like that, you know, what else are they going to come up to sell, you know? What else are they going to take away from us? What else, you know? But society made it so we have to buy these things. We have to. Until the seventh generation makes that change to solar, wind, governments to think about their future, you know? Anyway, okay, the things that I wanted to mention also was that over at Standing Rock, there was a big old large teepee that was built, a ceremonial teepee, a meeting place, which hadn't been done in over 150 years. It was called the Oceti Shacoi. And what it is is it's all the seven council fires of what they call us, the French call us the Suu Nation, the great Suu Nation, have come together. The last time that that happened was over 150 years ago. It opened the doors to the treaties that were made with the United States. And it goes beyond that. It can go up through the United Nations and past to the rest of the world. And this is where it's kind of difficult because they say we're sovereign, but we're not really sovereign because each tribe has what we call the BIA implemented into these tribes, BIA, Bureau of Indian Affairs. And the Bureau of Indian Affairs is run by the government. So whatever happens in tribal business, the BIA takes care of it. They call us sovereign, but we're not sovereign because we cannot control our own destiny. And so it is important when we open the doors to those treaties to go beyond and ask for help from the rest of the world in any which way we can because we have to be self-sufficient in order to grow, in order to be among the world. They call us a separate nation, but we're not really a separate nation when we're still controlled by the U.S. government. So that is what is very important to our people and we need the outside help in order to recognize that and to support us and to support the Najjah, the leadership of the Oceti Shakoli. And that's one of the biggest things that was accomplished that was the biggest thing that ever happened coming out of Standing Rock. And then another thing too is when Standing Rock happened and the call went out because of the oil, we had to stop that oil pipeline as word spread and at the beginning it spread slowly but then it started to happen more quickly, quickly. And then all of a sudden we had people from all over the country, all over Turtle Island, different tribes coming in, one after another. We did ceremonies to welcome them in. And as we did those ceremonies more and more tribes came in from other countries, Canada, Mexico, South America, Alaska. They all started to come in and all of a sudden people from around the world started to come in. The young people came in to support and to be with us with all the issues that we were facing and trying to stop that pipeline. That pipeline is in Alakhotra, the prophecy, long time ago it was told that the pipeline is a black snake and the black snake will come and it will cross the country. And there was other black snakes but that main black snake that they were talking about at Standing Rock was coming and so the prophecy was fulfilled but other prophecies were also fulfilled because they said someday all the people will come together which is happening and it's still happening now. I believe that all people of all age, all races will come together under the tree of life. And I believe that that is going to happen and that's going to happen real soon. In prayer that is how powerful that is. And then the message is that I have received that prayer has to be number one. So anyway that's how important that we stop that black snake and so far it's still running but like I said they're having issues with it, they did everything illegal so now hopefully they can shut it off and look at all our issues because so far in history all our lands have been taken and all our treaties haven't been kept. They've ignored them, they've tried to give us so much money for our sacred black hills right in South Dakota but we refuse it because that is our sacred land and we need to be there. And with the help of the rest of the world maybe that's a possibility in your future. I know that that was an issue when I first knew how to talk when I was young I heard about that all my life and all my life I never thought that I would have to go and try to protect that water, that sacred medicine and when it came to I couldn't believe it. It happened in my lifetime which things happen for a reason and it goes back to numbers. Our sacred numbers are four and seven. Four and seven like everything else are the four directions of where we're at, the four directions. The seven covers the spirits and then grandmother earth here and then the great spirit, the great mystery. So there are seven right there and because of Standing Rock a lot of these people around the world are noticing and waking up to what the real issues are. It's not being ignored anymore and a lot of things will have to happen together in order for us to work towards the positive and in that we have to pray towards the positive. Like I said prayer is number one. We all have to make stronger prayers. If we all pray around this world of all the issues that are going on, the negativity we could turn that to positivity. We can make this a world to last a lot longer for our children, grandchildren and their children. But we don't have much time and we need everybody's help. I know that lately before I came this way I was pulled towards Canada because one of the things that came out of Canada was that there was a lot of suicides with young people and I heard there were ages 10, 11, 12 years old and in my hometown there was like an epidemic of suicides, a couple of nephews of mine committed suicide in the last two years. And so the organization that we're with we're trying to find a way to help these young people come back to our culture, come back to maybe ceremony in a way where we can help them from committing suicide. And I know it's a problem all over the world and maybe that's another reason why we need to get out there and do more ceremonies or even just talk to the young people. All indigenous people around this world were sort of put here by a creator to protect and watch over what we call grandmother earth. And that protection and cultures around this world is also jeopardized by big corporations and governments because they keep on taking and taking. And when that happens we're not strong enough to defend or protect what is in our area and we need the people of this world to come together and support in that way and so there is a voice out there where we can make changes in the government, make changes in the policies concerning what we can do to better the earth instead of going through fossil fuels or more timber or everything that is needed from the ground is taken until it's going to be all gone. Now a lot of the waters and rivers are getting polluted and we need to put a stop to that because if we don't then we need everybody's help and we can't do it alone. That's why we're reaching out and that's why we're trying to spread this message and stay in prayer and work together in that way. We need everyone's help to focus on this positivity. Too much bad things are happening too many are close, too much close to a nuclear war, there's too much destruction of Oji Makha, grandmother earth so we need to make that change we all need to start to come together. I really appreciate I really pray for all of you out there. Thank you.