Lydia Whirlwind Soldier writes in her poem “To Be an Elder,” “Nope … I am not ready to give up my immature ways, to spontaneously give. I am not ready to examine and prune my behaviors, to ask for those senior discounts, to set examples for those around or let those old patterns vanish.” Today we talk with her and Joseph Marshall III about being a Lakota Elder.
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