Broken Treaties with Catherine Howard

I don’t think we do have relationship with the government they don’t listen to us anyway even if we cry and crawl and tell him to we want to turn it back to wait was it he’ll never come back to us we lost that so many times they broke our treaty so many times we don’t want to talk about it because it hurts I have tears in my eyes when I read to my students about poverty and stuff and there are console man and now you know it’s maza scada money is what’s changing them if Dave that there is no money not paying the consummate or the tribal chairman you think till they’ll fight to get into them Rose know they will that’s the role of all of them are they evil you know like you know like we want to go to the you want to go someplace for something good dude from the pocket you know and do it on your own natural you really mean the meetings and that poverty in the traditional ways I really don’t believe in it because I really don’t how would I say that there they broke they broke so many treaties towards us that it’s what’s the use are trying to reach strengthened into when they already ruined it how are we going to put the strength together when they took our land and dee ruin our you know nadar trying to take our language away that’s what we’re fighting for and they can never take that line they can’t change us you know and there and I know myself I could out speak anybody with my Dakota language not proud of it and I learned it from my parents it didn’t have I didn’t learn it from the book I never learned nothing from the book I learned it from listening to my elderlies and this or this board that we have like the tribal constantly should have a all the councilmen and alder tribal chairperson should speak our language in every meeting see what the president will do about that you know I had when I write a report if I rata I wanted to come to this meetings I wrote to the school board and I wrote it all in my Dakota language and I translated why I wanted to come over here and you know they really they really like that at any time I write somebody i write it in Dakota and I translate my what a why I wanted to come over you know and nowadays when you do get your teaching license remember you got to have credits under there’s two credits that I’m fighting for it for year to my credit you know I could have it on my credit degree I don’t know why they’re doing that you know our Dakota language we should get credit any time you know we don’t have to bake to get credits you know when you shoulda just gave it to us but I mean that’s the way they run it so that’s why but that wasn’t the only reason I want to come unto I like to hear speakers talk you get something out of every speaker you know and it’s good and you could use that in class you know maybe someday you could like today when they sign that flag song and they said that prayer that little short prayer that guy said when you look at it’s the truth you know what he said you what why we’re fighting you are all trying to renew our language in which is really strong you know and it’s that’s tribal sabo silver tea and stuff like that I’ll see to talk about it because we’re going to be lying to our students if we talk about it you know we’re going to do this and they’re going to do that and I never happened you know is something that we I don’t know if I’ll ever change to our are good ways you know when we were growing up tribal consular was only forward him that walk to the meetings they walk back they don’t get paid still randa meetings