“Never Forget Who You Are” with Patricia Christensen

I would always like to my grandma and i were gonna she i always say never forget who you are you’re a dakota you’ll always be a dakota so never forget that you know and this is what i would like our children to know and never forget that um you know sometimes they try to be somebody different like a rock star or something like this and act like that but you know i was telling you’re not that person be who you are and you’ll be proud of who we are that’s how we grew up and always remember where dakota’s and that’s why i always tell my kids be proud you know don’t try to be somebody else you’re not this is i like to see all our all our children all our colleagues are here and spiritually always be proud of who you are that’s how we grew up when you think about being dakota what does that mean to you dakota is well my grandma always said this has been us all our lives you know um not too long ago i’ve seen the documentary our native people were here first in the beginning never ever no one else you know no um like when they found all these relics and bones and for thousands and thousands of years ago and my grandma always said we’ve been here way before you know anybody else this is what my grandmother always said and so thinking about way back and looking at these documentaries that the navy people have always been here first and montana truly found a lot of this stuff over more than 10 000 years i’ve seen that you know and um and all these the old natives know this you know so it had to come from way way you know thousand millions of years ago and pete and then i know that people say no it’s not true you know but all the old nato’s know about this we were here first and um and i keep seeing documentary things about sagat you know do research and check on and see who else found things you know about our people being here first i know when um i did a research a whole united states this whole united states was covered uh not i didn’t look at any other countries but all natives it wasn’t even heard of you know the whole united states was covered with that and i seen a lot of how the boats start coming in from different countries and meeting our people and usually a friend on friendly terms but it was always some reason that they thought you know it helped someone else i don’t know why they did that but they always helped someone else and then they in turn um got captured and brought to a different country you know and they lived over there died over there and married over there and they have kids i would just see another documentary then he’s a well-known captain too i forgot about his name here but he was he was uh married one of the native girls they took to their country and he married and they got kids out and i was thinking i wonder if they never told their kids their natives from here united states you know but they for after that i’ve never heard if they brought him back came back or anything but i was wondering about that too