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Lakota, for my tribal affiliation from Cheyenne River sioux reservation, which is about 100 miles east of where i stand right now at the sacred bear butte. A very spiritual place where not only lakota, but people of Many American Indian Tribes and nationalities visit. People come here and they will give tobacco offerings and prayers, and so they will leave those very often with tobacco and cloth for maybe a loved one or something they are praying for, but it does show all of the prayers that are left here and that are well received in this very area that we are at, i have actually given some lakota names to some people here. Some of these places, when i just look over, i can kind of almost imagine us, you know, having our little ceremony and getting together, and on a great occasion, someone getting a name that they are proud to carry with them. Always almost develops a connection with them, you know . They start coming here more often, and then that place is special to them. You are c

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