Dave Yakima Chief (Wakinyan - Thunder) - Song & Speech at Ancient Forest Chautauqua - 1991

Dave Yakima Chief (Wakinyan), age 74, journeyed to the spirit world on Friday evening, June 10, in Medford, Oregon surrounded by family. A respected Lakota elder, warrior, spiritual advisor, and member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Dave was born on June 25, 1930 at Rapid Creek, South Dakota. He grew up at Red Shirt Table on the Pine Ridge Reservation. His parents were Albert Chief and Hattie Fills the Pipe Chief. Dave worked for the people and for treaty rights for decades, traveling to the United Nations, the White House, the U.S. Congress, and other continents. In 1972 Dave participated in the Trail of Broken Treaties, which culminated in the takeover of the BIA in Washington, D.C. In 1978 he was in the Longest Walk from Alcatraz Island to Washington, D.C. that brought about the Freedom of Religion Act (P.L. 95-341), allowing Native people the legal right to practice traditional spirituality. In 1984, he ran in the Jim Thorpe 54-day run from the Onondaga Nation in New York to Los Angeles, after which Jim Thorpe’s nine gold Olympic medals were returned to his family.”
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00:15 - Speech
02:00 - Song
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[@GretchenMarie]

Profoundly beautiful!! Actually crying!!!

[@hopehope8974]

I miss Dave every day. A lot of folks know Dave from ceremonies and speaking engagements, but I miss the fun of just hanging with Dave. He had a great sense of humor. l'll always remember our trip up into the Cascades to cut lodgepole pine for his Year of New Moon Ceremonies. Snow still covered the roads ,so we parked the truck and trudged a mile or more uphill then crested a rise and saw the lodgepole pines still more than a mile away....Then it hit us ; Even if we make it to the pines, how are we gonna get a dozen 20 foot wet poles back to the truck.??? Dave , Chris and I stood there laughing in the cold ,clear mountain air...Guess we all needed the walk... I miss you my friend.

[@RussellNollenMusic]

Thank you for sharing this! ❤

[@GretchenMarie]

Profoundly beautiful!! Actually crying!!!