November 2, 2012:
Place: Sateren Auditorium, Music Hall, 715 22nd Ave South
All events are free to the public.
4-5:30 Past, Present, Future: Presentation on Dakota History and Vision
Speakers include: Dale Weston (Dakota) and Jim Rock (Dakota). Hosted by Augsburg Indigenous Student Association President, Rikki Dalton
5:30-7:00 Reception聽hosted by American Indian Student Services in the Music Hall atrium next to Sateren Auditorium.
7:00-9:30 Screening of聽Dakota 38聽(Smooth Feather Productions, 2012)
Screening and discussion with co-filmmaker and producer Sarah Weston, moderated by Dale Weston.
Dakota 38 is a documentary about Jim Miller鈥檚 experience in 2005. 鈥淎 Native spiritual leader and Vietnam veteran, [Jim] found himself in a dream riding on horseback across the great plains of South Dakota. Just before he awoke, he arrived at a riverbank in Minnesota and saw 38 of his Dakota ancestors hanged. At the time, Jim knew nothing of the largest mass execution in United States history, ordered by Abraham Lincoln on December 26, 1862. 鈥淲hen you have dreams, you know when they come from the creator鈥� As any recovered alcoholic, I made believe that I didn鈥檛 get it. I tried to put it out of my mind, yet it鈥檚 one of those dreams that bothers you night and day.鈥�
Now, four years later, embracing the message of the dream, Jim and a group of riders retrace the 330-mile route of his dream on horseback from Lower Brule, South Dakota to Mankato, Minnesota to arrive at the hanging site on the anniversary of the execution. 鈥淲e can鈥檛 blame the wasichus anymore. We鈥檙e doing it to ourselves. We鈥檙e selling drugs. We鈥檙e killing our own people. That鈥檚 what this ride is about, is healing.鈥� This is the story of their journey- the blizzards they endure, the Native and Non-Native communities that house and feed them along the way, and the dark history they are beginning to wipe away.鈥� (http://smoothfeather.org/dakota38/#!prettyPhoto/0/)
Thank you to our sponsors: the American Indian, First Nations, and Indigenous Studies Department, the Augsburg Native American Film Series, American Indian Student Services Program, Augsburg Indigenous Student Association, the Department of History, and the Department of Religion