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Nurturing a Traditional Legacy
In February 1991, Tribes gathered in the Sacred Black Hills of South Dakota. Nineteen Tribes from all
four directions attended. Lakota representatives from several of the Native Nations in South Dakota
were there, as well as the Crow, Shoshone-Bannock, Gros Ventre/Assiniboine, and Blackfeet Nations of
Montana. Various Pueblo representatives from New Mexico, and the Winnebago, traditionally called Ho
Chunk, from both Nebraska and Wisconsin came. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and some as far west as
Round Valley of California arrived. Some of these tribes were historically enemies, but they united for a
common mission...