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  • Student Uses Welding Class Project to Replace Old Cemetery Markers
  • Film Fest, Speaker Delve Into American Indian Movement
  • National Native American Heritage Month
  • Friends Mourn Red Cloud
  • Fountain, Statue Dedication Bridges Cultures
  • The Last Lakota Code Talker
  • Crow Creek: The Forgotten People
  • Santee Youth Reconnecting to Winona Roots with New Venture
  • Prairie Island Indian Community Pledges $125,000 to Diversity Foundation
  • Churches Start Drive To Send Aid To S.D. Native Americans
  • Dakota Homecoming June 2 & 3 (2007)
  • Otakuye Hdihunipi- The Third Annual Great Dakota Gathering and Homecoming
  • More Dakota Attend Homecoming
  • Hdihunipi- The Great Dakota Gathering and Homecoming Event Honoring American Indians (2006)
  • Hdihunipi: Great Dakota Gathering and Homecoming This Weekend (2006) at Lake Park
• Testimonials
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  • Senator Norm Coleman
  • Sen Paul Wellstone
  • Ardell Brede - Mayor, Rochester Minnesota
  • Eric Sorensen - Former City Manager, Winona, Minnesota
  • Roger Trudell - Chairman, Santee Sioux Nation
  • Lynn Salt and David Mueller - Movie Producers
  • Mark Peterson- Executive Director, Winona Historical Society
  • Rod Steiner
  • Cynthia Lindquist Mala - Executive Director, North Dakota Indian Affairs Commission
  • Elizabeth Morgan
  • Andrew Grey, Sisseton - Wahepeton Sioux Tribe
  • Robert C. Douville, Department of Health & Human Services
  • Duane St. John, Community & Health Rep., Crow Creek Big Bend District
  • Dale McKay, Dakota Ojibway Police Service
  • Lila Mechaley & Tribal Members of the Santee Sioux Nation
  • Mary Cavanaugh, Spirit Lake Tribe
  • Vernon Ashley
• Events
  • Rochester Indian Heights Park Ceremony
  • "A Good Day to Die" Documentary
  • 2010 NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet
  • 2011 NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet
  • Dakota Homecoming
  • Chief Wabasha II Fountain & Sculpture Dedication
  • Honoring the US Marine Corps
  • Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, Boots and Saddle Club 2010 Halloween Horse Parade
• Projects
  • Video Projects
  • Stories of the Dakota Elders
  • Diversity Store Proposal
  • Support Our Projects
  • Dakota Reconciliation
  • Semi-Truck Deliveries For Crow Creek
  • Crow Creek Cemetery Restoration
  • Toys For Tots
  • Crow Creek Employment Initiative - Tero Tool Project
• Places
  • Crow Creek The Forgotten People
  • City of Winona, Minnesota
• People
  • Tuskegee Airmen
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  • Audry Wolf
  • Cora Jones
  • Cynthia Lindquist Mala
  • Elisabeth Morgan
  • JoAnne Bird
  • Lynn Salt
  • David Mueller
  • Ernest Wabasha
  • Clarence Wolf Guts
  • Dennis Banks
  • Peter Lengkeek
  • Alan Childs II
  • Brandon Sazue
  • Edward A. Lhones Sr.
  • Eric Sorensen
  • Joseph Gomer
  • Lenoard Wabasha
  • Rev. Sid Byrd
  • Rick Thomas
  • Robert Bone
  • Rod Steiner
  • Vern Ashley
• Dakota Homecoming

Additional Advisors and Consultants:

• Mike Hotaine: Former Chief @ Sioux Valley Reserve, Dakota Historian & Cultural and Language teacher, Legendary International Powwow MC, (Diversity advisor & Dakota translator)



• Reynold Howe: Historian and Educator w/ Crow Creek Dakota Nation Tribal Schools & California Public Schools (Ret); descendent of well known Dakota artist Oscar Howe.



• Ron Johnson: Writer, Director and Sound with Frozen State Productions - Films with Bite." Enrolled @ Spirit Lake Dakota Reservation.



• Vern Lambert: Director of Spirit Lake Social Services, Historian, Educator, Dakota Elder/Long Distance runner.



• David Larsen: Historian, Dakota educator, Chief Wapasha direct descendent; former Tribal Chair. at Lower Sioux Reservation, Morton, MN (DF advisor)



• Donald Laudner: (BIA retired), historian, enrolled @ Crow Creek Res, Ft. Thompson, SD, President of American Indian Veterans Assoc. (DF elder advisor)



• Bud Lawrence: Co-founder (w/ Amos Owen, Dakota Spiritual Leader from Prairie Island) of annual ( 30+ years) Mankato Reconciliation & Education Powwow, (one of largest "off Rez" powwows in US) Mankato Businessman.



• Dr. Elton Lawrence: Historian; former President of Sisseton-Wahpeton Tribal College @ Agency Village, SD Descendent of Lorenzo Lawrence who was 1st Indian to become US Citizen & was sub-chief to Little Crow.



• Chris Leath: Dakota historian and Spiritual leader @ Prairie Island Dakota Res; Language & Cultural teacher, (Diversity Foundation Advisor & Dakota Translator) descendent of Chief Red Wing and Chief Little Crow!



• Ken Lohnes: Spirit Lake Casino Manager, past SL TERO Chair; Ft Totten Children & Daycare Council; Historian, descendent of Chief Waanatan, (DF Dakota advisor)



• Larry Long: Songwriter, Int'l Recording Artist/Musician, Social activist, Educator, Founder of Community Celebration of Place, Director of Elder's Wisdom, Children's Song Project.



• Virginia Mas: Dakota elder advisor, Cultural and language teacher; former SWST Council member; (DF Dakota Elder Advisor and Dakota Educator Translator)



• Eva McKay: Native activist and educator @Sioux Valley Reserve; Indigenous Elder advisor to the Canadian Govt.