INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY

Once again before Grandfather Sun, Tunkashila, with the Oglala relatives, the ceremony has come together. As they have for 16 years, on these wondrous plateaus of the southern Black Hills of the northern Great Plains, Uncle Joe American Horse, traditional chief and also former tribal president, his brother David American Horse, Grandma Beatrice Long Visitor Weasel Bear, respected headwoman Loretta Afraid of Bear, respected Pipe Carrier Tom Cook and the families of the American Horse/Afraid of Bear tiospayes, received brothers and sisters of the many directions.