| Dakota Homecoming and Reconciliation History |
History of Diversity Foundation's
Dakota Homecoming and
Reconciliation Programs
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Dakota Homecoming and
Reconciliation Programs
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The Following are a list of articles from various publications
that tell the history of the Diversity Foundation's
Dakota Homecoming and Reconciliation Programs.
that tell the history of the Diversity Foundation's
Dakota Homecoming and Reconciliation Programs.
A Gift Fit For A Chief
Bill Multhaup shifted in his chair, worried that he had made a mistake.
Across the table sat Leonard Wabasha, a future hereditary chief and the direct descendent of Wapasha III, whose Dakota people were forced in 1853 from the land that would become Winona and onto reservations to the west.
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The Tear
"The great spirit shed a tear that day,
As the doomed Santee were led away.
Their death chants hung on the winter breeze,
As bystanders watched with gleeful ease.
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Sharing A Culture
Brothers Danny and Dave Seaboy came from Sisseton, S.D., to visit their ancestral homeland and celebrate the second annual Great Dakota Gathering and Homecoming at Lake Winona in Lake Park on Saturday.
Danny teaches kindergarten through eighth-grade students about the Dakota language and culture at a school in Sisseton.
While in Winona, Danny, his brother and their families along with other Dakota taught Winonans and each other what it means to be Dakota.
"There are many things I don't want my children or grandchildren to know, because I want them to hold on to their culture," Danny Seaboy said. "The Dakota have had hard times, but our humor has helped us survive."
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Dakota Homecoming June 2 & 3, 2006
The time is near when Winona will again welcome home the Dakota Indians who lived in the shade of Wapasha’s Cap long before white settlers set foot on American soil. June 2 and 3, 2007 will be the Fourth Annual Great Dakota Gathering and Homecoming, a time when Winonans and Dakotas alike reflect on the pain, the healing and the understanding that shapes the relationship we have with each other today.
The Dakota Homecoming originated as the brainchild of the Diversity Foundation and Winona city officials, groups that later gave rise to the Winona Dakota Unity Alliance. Led by the efforts of the Diversity Foundation’s Lyle Rustad, this alliance has forged a bond between Winona and the Dakota Nation that used to call this place home.
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The Great Dakota Gathering and Homecoming Event
The event was begun as reconciliation for the Dakota American Indians who called Winona home until the European settlers and the United States military forced them out. Many Dakota members attend the homecoming every year.
The homecoming had been in the planning process for years and is sponsored by the city of Winona, The Diversity Foundation, and the Winona Dakota Unity Alliance.
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Trying To Heal
Recently on the Crow Creek Reservation at Fort Thompson, Dakota, Lakota and non-native people helped each other in a big way, assisted by a boost from the Diversity Foundation of Minnesota, an organization which attempts to improve inter-cultural understanding and heal past wounds. The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe and the cities of Winona and Rochester, Minnesota, Minnesota also partnered in the effort.
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More Dakota Attend Homecoming
Hundreds of them came, and signs hung everywhere to greet them saying, “Welcome home, Dakotas.”
Organizers said as word of this event spread throughout the Indian nations of the Midwest and Canada, more and more have made it a priority to come over the past three years.
This year, said Diversity Foundation’s Lyle Rustad, some 400 or more Native Americans came to town to see this place they heard had opened its arms to their culture, their history.
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A Truthful Journey Home for the Dakotah People
“This is the truth of the feelings of people and this is what really happened, going from when they loaded the Dakotas on the steam boat, brought them down the Mississippi River and up the Missouri River to the Crow Creek Reservation, Dave Seaboy said. He shared a story told to him by an elder woman that cant be found in history books, yet it happened. Not all Dakota Indians went by boat, a group of them were marched on foot, to Fort Thompson (Crow Creek). Spoiled meat was part of the menu and elder men, exhausted from the walk were killed by the soldiers because it was easier to dispose of them than to help them make the journey.
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A Truthful Journey Home for the Dakotah People Part 2
"Im here to tell about how our people were treated long ago, an oral history that my grandfather and grandmother told me, Ambrose Littleghost, 72, said. He went to Catholic School when he was 6 years old and remembers the abuse inflicted upon himself and others by the Catholic Sisters. "The sisters used to slap us on the head, pull our ears, pull our hair, and say 'dont you understand? You know that hurt!
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Delegation from Winona and Rochester visits Flandreau
The leaders of Winona, Minnesota’s Diversity Foundation, Kiwanis Club, Winona/Dakota Unity Alliance (Lower Sioux, Upper Sioux, and Flandreau) made another visit to the Dakota Tribes the week of January 22, 2006.
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Share With Others What God Has Shared With Us
Now the Dakota people along with descendants of the white settlers will call upon sweet grass and its truth-telling powers during reconciliation ceremonies June 26 and 27 in Winona. Leonard E. Wabasha certainly hopes his people hear appropriate requests for forgiveness.
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Churches Start Drive To Send Aid To S.D. Native Americans
Lyle Rustad, once of Rushford, has worked with Native American causes and needs most of his life. His Diversity Foundation, Inc., and a conversation with Jim Hoiness has led to a local campaign to improve life for residents of the Crow Creek Reservation in South Dakota.
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Winonans Send Furniture, Clothes to Crow Creek, South Dakota
The tribe's conditions prompted city officials from Winona, members from the Winona/Dakota Unity Alliance and Lyle Rustad, director of the St. Cloud, Minn.-based Diversity Foundation to collect and deliver clothing, furniture and appliances last week.
"This is only a band-aid to what these people really need," Rustad said. "The members of this tribe need improved education facilities and resources, more housing, repairs to their water and sewage infrastructure, and they need good-paying jobs. There are no easy solutions here."
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