First Voices Indigenous Radio
September 16, 2021
This week, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Dylan Shields about his experience on the recent Whitestone Hill Memorial Horseback Ride with a group from a number of Dakota and Lakota nations. Dylan, a filmmaker, grew up on the Duck Valley Reservation in Nevada among the Paiute and
Shoshone people. They rode across the northern Plains from Crow Creek, South Dakota to Whitestone Hill State Historic Site, 23 miles southeast of Kulm, Dickey County, North Dakota. They arrived on September 3. This is the second of four planned Rides held in remembrance of ancestors who were at Whitestone on September 3−5,1863, when white soldiers led by General Alfred Sully attacked a tipi camp of Yaktonai, Dakota, Hunkpapa Lakota and Blackfeet (Sihasapa Lakota) as part of a military mission to punish participants of the Dakota War of 1862. Upwards of 400 Native men, women and children were massacred or captured.
In the second segment, we hear “My Last Warning,” featuring Chief Oren Lyons, Wolf Clan, Onondaga Nation. Listen here: