RIP David Bald Eagle

[oldbike54]

 RIP David Bald Eagle , Lakota Chief , WW II Vet , actor , race car driver , and raconteur . 97 years young .

 Doe key ya lay hey ?  Wah gnee kyta .



 Dusty

[ITSec]

Elected first Chief of the United Native Nations, and well deserving of the respect he earned.

[Sasquatch Jim]

  Another honored warrior in the happy hunting ground with his ancestors.

[oldbike54]

 Despite the fact that most of my life has been spent in the Southern plains , when death comes my ashes will hopefully find their way home to the Black Hills .

 Dusty

[EldoMike]

Despite the fact that most of my life has been spent in the Southern plains , when death comes my ashes will hopefully find their way home to the Black Hills .

 Dusty

Interesting....thou gh I have very little Native American blood, my ashes will be spread on or near the Crazy Horse Monument..

[oldbike54]

Interesting....though I have very little Native American blood, my ashes will be spread on or near the Crazy Horse Monument..

 It's weird , the region stirs some genetic memories , call me crazy , but the truth is just that . Maybe like a descendant of an Irish family visiting the Emerald Isle , or like Damnyankee relocating to Central Italy where his family is from . Some feeling of familiarity that can't truly be explained .

 Dusty

[Joliet Jim]

No Native American blood in me, but something about the black hills and the badlands that I could call home for eternity.

[oldbike54]

No Native American blood in me, but something about the black hills and the badlands that I could call home for eternity.

 Have you been tested ? No snark intended , but lots of folks have traces of DNA that is Indian or something different than what they were aware of . A good friend who is nearing 70 just found out he is 15% Nez Perce and he thought his entire family was from Texas  He now refers to me
as his blood brother 

 Dusty

[vstevens]

Have you been tested ? No snark intended , but lots of folks have traces of DNA that is Indian or something different than what they were aware of . A good friend who is nearing 70 just found out he is 15% Nez Perce and he thought his entire family was from Texas  He now refers to me
as his blood brother 

 Dusty

My condolences for Chief Bald Eagle.  I understand the longing for an ancestral 'homeland' (although we all come from East Africa if you go back 40k years or so)...

It was a surprise to my father when he found out he was adopted and that his parents (for sure his mother maybe his father) were Choctaws.  They immigrated to the Central Valley of California from Oklahoma in the 30's to pick fruit and vegetables after the farm dried up and blew away and the bank took it.  Dad was born in '32 and given to an older couple without kids.  His mother was an unmarried teen without a way to provide for a baby.  Dad was raised by an old cowboy and his wife.  It's a real American story.

[Aaron D.]

That sounds like my mom, though it was a Canadian story.