Our Future is Dependent on Remembering with JT Shining Oneside

Sharing and generosity when I when I think of sharing and generosity I often think of um uh Crazy Horse I’ve been to where he’s buried I’ve also been to his place where he uh had his Su dance and it’s a it’s a desolate place and it’s it’s uh Wild lot of um wolves and different things out there and you don’t get very much time to be out there because they start coming when you’re out there so you you have to be you know kind of like in a hurry while you’re out there but I remember being there and I seen somebody had made a wooden carving and these are words that crazy horse had he w welcomed all um First Nations people and he said as long as you come in you could spend the night you would be fed and you would be able to drink the waters and they would care for you and so that was how crazy horse was he had a lot of sharing and gener osity he wanted you know the life that he had known as a Lota boy and then coming up to be a war chief and the whole way of life that he knew he wanted that to be there you know for generations to come you know and that’s the protection of the Black Hills but I think in that message that he has it’s saying you know that our future is you know dependent on upon the survival of remembering you know who we are as a people and protecting you know our homelands and our sacred sites protecting them and but still at the same time remembering you know those gifts of sharing and generosity because he was very generous in his actions and uh you know he did spend you know time by himself but at the same time he had 250 Warriors that you know that followed him and it was uh it was a time of unrest but he still had the heart you know to um keep going even though you know he knew that his life would end you know through his protection but even today through the lightning and you know in ceremony he still comes you know and is there letting the people know that he’s still uh there to help so with that sharing and generosity I’ve just seen so many Elders you know portray that and so many in so many ways and when you go to their homes you know they want to make sure you have something to eat something to drink you know when you go to Grandma and Grandpa’s home your auntie and uncle’s home or whever it is they always want to feed you and take care of you and they want you to leave with some kind of gift so that’s just one way that we are giving in that way and you know just uh knowing you know how generous my father was you know he had 10 to feed but he would get bags of groceries bring them to people’s homes and D big families they probably wouldn’t have got anything to eat and my mother was very um generous she used to take children and clean them up if they were dirty and she would also if they were had lice in their hair um she would clean them up too and they never complain about doing any of that stuff they never said well you owe me I never heard that come out of their mouth ever you know they were very um generous in many ways so