4 Original Values with Demus McDonald

Respect generosity bravery never give up and then with them see those are the four original values the Kota people respect generosity bravery and wisdom and then tell about grandpa John Sherman when we came in a team to the trading post we came around the corner all the grandpas were sitting there the grandpa’s talking about they are talking Dakota where they went to school boarding school they were said to and my grandpa came around the corner he said do not obey we tried the war is that you shake your hands a holy child doctor that means respect is you respect them shake your hand respect them he said we need to order new obesity they lived a lot of years walk suffer or take our peace wisdom he said they have a lot of wisdom appeared this isn’t why you respect them and then bravery that wonder you never give up I tell kids today that if they ever algebra problem I mean problem and they can’t figure it out don’t give up you go to the teacher and tell the teacher you help me just what you here for to help me because I want to get I wanted help with this problem and don’t give up until you the teacher so that the bravery it’s kind of the same as don’t give up and then generosity that they’re caught up people will always help one another would whatever you know we can food or anything and I’ll tell one word the housing area I lived about thirty years ago I was the only one that had a house phone in my house so the neighbors they would come and say can I use your phone sure so I was outside tinkering around my car the kids neighbors the neighbors kids about two doors down they came to my house can we use your phone I don’t call this so I said yeah okay so they went in and I was outside but I could hear them inside laughing him they came up they didn’t even say thank you no respect they got they got just they got to their yard cop car pulled in my house there’s a telephone number of this I said yesterday he said well we traced a call to this number to their kids they saying they’re gonna bomb the police department I said yeah okay you see those kids over there those are the ones that used my phone so zoom right down there got that parents came to my house they were trying to deny it but the police brought them so see ya kid use my phone if I can hear them screaming laughing in it so they said they’re gonna bomb the cops and they said they’re gonna bomb 50 as I didn’t hear that but I can hear them laughing yeah that was there myself you kids do wrong you all stick up for them you know this case they did it so they could hack over that but that’s where that comes in our generous with my four kids had no respect for me by making threats you know that value so if young people are in a place in their family or for whatever reason they’re not getting these teachings and all the things that you had the opportunity to grow up with what can they do what would help that situation well I was going into this to the school with my teachings like this and the tribal school board they said I was not certified by the state to go into classrooms with my culture teaching so I said well I don’t go by that everything I learned from Grandma and Grandpa they never spoke a word English said they weren’t certified by the state I said so why do I have to be certified so they just they didn’t want me around what I still go in there now I go in I even go in a white schools and EE so really getting this information into a video like this that can be shared is really important for that reason then right this we need them to be able to hear it even if they can’t hear it from home yeah so