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Marie Randall
.Le anpetu ki han, woaglakin kta yunkan. Sicangu Oyate ki hetanhan. Tiospaye Wah'peluta, Tiospag' Hetahan imaca he. Nahan Tunkasila Weyakihan Mato Wahancunka iceyapi. Bear Shield. O nahan, Unci Weyaki Itasipa Wicaku Win eciyapi.
Takes the Bull Away, is my grandma's name. My mother's name is Anawazipi Win. Jealous of Her is her Indian sacred name. These are all sacred names that we carry in Lakota life. My dad's name is Brush Breaker, which means breaking of a brush limb to save his people. That's one of the sacred names that he carried for his father. I was chosen as an adoption of a relative. They gave me the name of Oyate Akitapi Win. Nation Woman is my name. Today I live that life and I think I'm doing the best I can for my people. The sacredness of my name carries me through the life of my life. I live the life of my teachings, of my elders, my unci, my ina, and my ate and gaka. The teaching that they gave me and the understanding of that way of life. I have lived that life. Of course I went to school and I was educated enough to walk with other societies that I have to walk with through life. We begin my Lakota way life with the society of life that I have to walk. I think I'm doing a great way of life for my children and teaching them how to understand who they are and what they are gifted with. Today I sit here and talk about who I am and where I come from. Matuweki sloliyape.
Everything that I do in life as a Lakota Winyan, and a giver of life, I have to pray and think about it and pray so that what I say or what I want to teach my children would be in a sacred way, where they can carry on without the help of the people they would serve.
Marie: Han. Unci, um, iyasna, iyasna eh, wana pejuta, (okwi) okeyapiktehunka. There's a season for gathering of roots. That was one of the things that we have to follow very closely because there's a season for everything we live by and even the gathering of fruits or plants that we need to use