DAKOTA 38+ 2 MEMORIAL RIDE - 2022

Hello, It is December 14th, 2022, and the final Dakota 38 + 2 Memorial Ride is in it's fifth day. This is the fifth webpage of the Ride.

I have added the different years Rides pages at the bottom of the webpages where the other links are, so that those of you who are new can see them.

The background of this page is the Ride entering the Pipestone National Monument in 2021

This section will stay here all along the Ride to enable people to get calendars no matter what day they come in first.

I am making some different calendars this year. The first one is of the horses through the years, the second one will be of unusual, beautiful, photos that have been taken through the years. They will be $5 each payable to the Go Fund Me page for the Ride expenses. The 3rd one I am working on is a Historic one, of the Dakota 38 and 1862. That Calendar will be FREE. Years ago I was given permission to use these photos from the MN Historical Society as long as I didn't charge anyone for them. So the Calendar with those photos will be free. Same proceedure. Gloria (Admin)

https://www.gofundme.com/f/dakota-38n2-wokiksuye-horse-ride-2022
I hope this URL works OK.

If you want a Calendar, please email me at dakota38@dragonflydezignz.50megs.com ASAP
Let me know which you want and I will email you a PDF file so that you can print them out yourself. As usual I will need an up to date email address from you, or it/they won't reach you, Thanks, Gloria

For those of you who have ordered calendars, you are on my list and the PDF's will be sent out as soon as I have them tested. Keep an eye out in your email, also the junk mail just in case! Thanks - Gloria

Prayers for the day from
Elaine L Bear 2022
We're praying for you, your sacrifices, your safety... stay in your prayers.
"Now be brave and fight for what you love. The elders say that one of Crazy Horse's war cries was, "Maka ki ecela tehani yanke lo!" "Only the Earth lasts forever." Stronghearts to the front."

Alberta & Jim Miller 2022
We know that prayers are powerful. Today the riders are moving east to Woonsocket, SD in the midst of icy ground, freezing fog and high winds. Please add a special prayer for the riders and sunka wakan oyate as they are now on the move. I often share this powerful image which captures each rider's sacred aura.


(Photo credit - Richard Milda)

Here are some good wishes for the Riders that came in since yesterday.
Once I have collected your post I will like it. If I haven't liked it I won't have got it on my file yet.

Day 4/5

Thanks Everyone for your kind words

The Dakota
by Allen Sheppard 2017

The Dakota are universally conceded to be of the highest type, physically, mentally, and probably morally, of any of the western tribes. Their bravery has never been questioned by white or Indian, and they conquered or drove out every rival except the Chippewa. They are educated in their own language, and through the agency of missionaries of the type of Riggs, Williamson, Cleveland, and Cook, many books in the Dakota language have been printed, and papers in Dakota are issued regularly.

Socially, the Dakota originally consisted of a large number of local groups or bands, and, although there was a certain tendency to encourage marriage outside the band, these divisions were not true gentes remembered blood relationship, according to Clark, being the only bar to marriage. Personal fitness and popularity determined chieftainship more than heredity, but where decent played any part it was usually from father to son.

The tipi might belong to either parent and was obtained by that parent through some ancestor who had had its character revealed in a dream or who had captured it in war.

The authority of the chief was limited by the band council, without whose approbation little or nothing could be accomplished. War parties were recruited by individuals who had acquired reputation as successful leaders, while the shamans formulated ceremonial dances and farewells for them. Polygamy Was common, the wives occupying different sides of the tipi. Remains of the dead were usually, though not invariably, placed on scaffolds.

In 1904 the Dakota Nation were distributed among the following agencies and school superintendencies:
Cheyenne River (Miniconjou, Sans Arcs, and Two Kettle), 2,477;
Crow Creek (Lower Yanktonai), 1,025;
Ft Totten school (Sisseton, Wahpeton, and Pabaksa), 1,013;
Riggs Institute (Santee), 279;
Ft Peck (Yankton), 1,116;
Lower Brutes (Lower Brule), 470
Pine Ridge (Oglala), 6,690;
Rosebud (Brulé, Waglukhe, Lower Brulé, Northern, Two Kettle, and Wazhazha), 4,977;
Santee (Santee), 1,075;
Sisseton (Sisseton and Wahpeton), 1,908;
Standing Rock (Sihasapa, Hunkpapa, and Yanktonai), 3,514;
Yankton (Yankton), 1,702

Madison

Today the Ride goes 20 miles, (129), from Howard to Madison

The Horses get taken care of at Bill Krech Farm (Thanks Bill)

Lodging will be at Howard, Dakota State Community Center

Breakfast will be with the Howard Community Churches,

Lunch will be with the White Buffalo Community

Dinner will be with the Dakota State University Diversity Group, Madison
6:45 Trojan Court

Thanks to all of those who are assisting with the food. It is much appreciated.

Watcha Doing? I smell fooood! from 2017 in Madison

Yesterday from Nina Fox

Sharlene at last gets a ride, with assistance from Ken and his horse Dec 2017

Happy Holidays wherever you are in this small, beautiful, world of ours!