In this ever changing world. the philsophy of my People is fading. Where has RESPECT, WISDOM, BRAVERY, GENEROSITY, COMPASSION, FORTITUDE and HUMILITY gone? Faded to the new ways of this earth, the different songs, and ways of thinking. Now money is all consuming. Not the people, but money and material things. When someone passes on, it's what can I get, not compassion for the family of the deceased. It is not the color of one's skin, or how much money one has, but how and to what end do we walk on Mother Earth, and do for the People, not for ourselves.
Jack Burnette, Rosebud Reservation, Mission, South Dakota