Help Through Ceremony with Kenneth Jerome Hill

As far as them contributing you know in that way you know there’s some a lot of people that I know that go that extra mile to contribute especially with the problem of the the biggest problem we’re having here on the res now is alcohol and drugs and there’s a lot of people that go that extra mile to try to come up with solutions you know to you know ease the problem will especially drugs because so many of our kids are getting into it and you know there’s no place for them to go so there I know there’s a lot of them that you know I have my own sweat lodge at home I’ve been Sun dancing for Sundance for 20 years now I just finished a couple of years ago on that was my fall was just 20 years so that’s what I completed but I do then I did my 7 years of vision questing on the hill and dance so I earned the right to do some of these ceremonies and I do have my own sweat lodge and I know I noticed that a lot of people the younger people especially will come to the sweat and they wanna you know they want to go that way and you know they’re looking out today reaching out for help but there’s a lot of them you know they get turned away from different things like that’s a day so I try to help them in that way you know take them in the sweat and pray with them and you know just try to get people out there the word out you know that there is people that are willing to listen and stuff like that so not only sweat wise you know there’s people there’s other people that I know that have sweat lodges too you know they can go but you know nowadays you know the younger people they’re the ones that I really need to help and you know we should be there to try to help you know thank you the last one is about Native identity and you know we were talking earlier with Oliver about how he teaches middle school and how difficult developing your identity or knowing your identity when you’re a young person how hard that is there anything that you would like to say about what it means to have this Dakota identity or what youth should know about that about their identity as Dakota well made Ben