DAKOTA 38+ 2 MEMORIAL RIDE - 2022

Hello, It is December 17th, 2022, and the final Dakota 38 + 2 Memorial Ride is in it's eighth day. This is the eighth 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 of a the Riders coming from Madison on the way to Flandreau, on the 15th, they had to stop riding as the weather became really bad and so the Ride was terminated until the weather became better. They were transported to Flandreau, and will pick up from where they were when the weather gets better, which could be today, or tomorrow when their rest days are over. (Photo by Nina Fox)

As of yesterday, we now have 9,000 members in the group.

However less than 1% of that number are visiting the web site.

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

FYI: You get a PDF file in your email, you can then print your own calendar, I do not mail the actual calendar out to you. As I live in England that would be a bit expensive to do!! It does work as I made the calendars for a number of years a while back and as far as I know everyone managed to print one out.

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
Nancy Kohn Raven - 2014
The Soul of a Horse and the Soul of a Man are almost identical, they are each made from Stardust, once you are intimate with a horse, with one horse, exchanging breath blowing each on the other, you will be connected to all horses. In the eye of a Horse you can see many things, the beginning of the World and the red glow of its ending, and all this the horse knows and more as well, they die with Valor and Nobility of Heart, and with acceptance of what is and was and what will ever be,
Today these same ponies walk with the riders, blowing their sacred breath into the cold of a winters day, snorting and prancing, talking in horse talk to their brothers. Telling them stories of where the grass still grows belly deep and how they run still in high chaparral, and drink long and deep from cold rivers, and what it is to be free, running in the wind.

Today I send a prayer, to where the Sun goes down, the place of horse and its beginning, Be with us now. and forever,
Aho Nancy Raven Kohn

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 7/8

Thanks Everyone for your kind words

A Small Piece of History
written & experienced by Gloria Hazell-Derby

In 1995 - 1997, my late husband Chuck, and I were members of The Gathering of Kinship Committee. The group was started to heal the wounds of the 1862 heartache, from both sides. In 1997 we had decided to get the Dakota people to carry the names of the 38 plus 3 (Little Crow was the third person) for the following year, so that they could have the mourning process done for them. Dakota people in the old days would honour the dead for a year, a wife would carry a bundle of her husbands things with her, she would talk to it, put food out for it and she would put it in his seating place and sleeping area, as if it were him, she would not wear new clothes, or dance, nor socialize. After a year she would return the bundle to his relatives and they would provide her with new clothes to begin her life again.

I guess it was a good way to get used to the loved one not being around, it was a custom and so she could do it in a way that was acceptable to everyone. Nowadays we are told to 'get over it' in many cases, we are not allowed to mourn our dead, for as long as they were allowed to. Of course when the men were hung in Mankato they had no one to mourn for them as their wives and family were imprisoned and were having a hard enough time just to survive. They needed to be mourned and their Spirits put to rest. So I asked Galan Drapeau Sr, the man who buried Little Crow if he would do a ceremony for these men, and he said yes. The committee made up leather name tags for each man and they would be given to people in place of the bundle. We hoped to get actual descendants to take them home but that was hard to do and so only a few in the end were taken by family members.

Anyway the day came for the ceremony, it was to be done at Birch Coulee, during the memorial powwow that was on for 2 days. We gathered together in the sun around Galen while he took every one of those name tags and did a ceremony with them. It was amazing. people just stood quietly and watched him (and another spiritual leader) do their spiritual work. Then the names were given out to the people.

The one thing that came from that day was the amount of people (including myself) who saw the spirit lights in the trees circling us. they were just flashing off and on all over those trees, but of course we knew not to say anything that would disturb the spiritual men while they worked. I don't know if they saw those lights but I know many of us did. Those spirits were watching as well, as enthralled as we all were, while the men did their wonderful work. It was a great honour to be there and to be a part of that committee. Baine Wilson who was the man who was the founder of the group has gone now, his wife Lillian became a good friend, as did most of that group. We had a spiritual link to each other.

(The day that we did the ceremony, was the same day that Princess Diana died. The following day everyone at the powwow did an honor dance for her, probably the first honoring for her in the world.)

I went back to England a few weeks afterwards, and so never got to see the name tags bought back the following year. I know all of them were not returned, I have heard of one that is worn on regalia as a continuing honoring to that man.

Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe

Today is another Rest Day. Everyone stays in Flandreau again

The Horses get taken care of at The Flandreau Indian School's Coral
No Ferrier available:

Lodging will again be at the Royal River Casino & Hotel, Flandreau.
20 rooms available

Breakfast will be at Eastman Hall with the Chuck Wagon

Lunch will be at Eastman Hall with the Chuck Wagon

Dinner will be at Eastman Hall with Watecha Bow

Thanks Watecha Bow for the meals that you have provided while the Riders have been in Flandreau

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

The Coral in 2016

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