My Grandmother’s Words of Wisdom, Part 1 with Demus McDonald

And then there was another thing my grandma used to say to it all are saving Dakota first you say I’m better on me who need to hell macaca not even achoo - hi Ernie honey sake Buchta Tony is Pina christening a one year Kingdom and that means sister da on the day that your mother gave birth to you God gave you a spirit know he is a spirit it could stand by you what be by his side you watch over you as long as you live you never leave you so got to mission school religion classes how one of the sisters had a picture of two little kids on a bridge with her broken stuff there was an angel standing there and that sister was explaining in English this is called a guardian angel God gave everybody a garden angel to watch over you drop sister I couldn’t couldn’t say sister we were told we had to say Stern so greatness stir I said my grandma told me that’s called a lovely I said it’s fear that’s gonna watch over me no no no she said no indeed no Indian said this is the only way she had that picture but there again my Dakota teaching came first bringing that you had I know you were very young when you went to school but do you feel like that played a role in helping you get through that period of time of your life having that grounding with your family and your spirituality yeah there was our got to high school and their buddies to come and get us on Sunday so standing there and I was watching for us after Windows watching for the bus and my grandma she asked me whoa this ecology doctor said you have a weight paper each other with pants pencil she said make two lines [Applause] there you go the harmonic worksheet I am well she treat her without or she Cho Bianca she said nature one duck she said now today you’re going to white man world you’re going to school with the white man you can live with the white man’s world this is what you’re gonna see she said this long line that all lines alone he’ll sheet you sucker EE on therefore Ouachita and are shorter line the Dakota or repeat the kata Tjuta Kia which heat up it sets up the arrow pointing down she said the white man looked down on the Dakota in the picture hide the teacher better than the Indian people if you go to school every day compared to nearly it doesn’t exist Russian Yahoo neckties you go to school every day you graduate you’ll be just as high as the Ouachita when you could get education you get smart you’ll be just as high as them and they cannot look down at you anymore that’s a one doc that’s what you’re gonna see so that’s what I meant by we’re at the boarding school in high school I went to school every day graduated with white people so that was another teaching my grandma