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  • On the Lakota Language (2014)
    Lalá Jay talks about the survival of his language throughout efforts to outlaw it. He speaks of its evolution into a language that is at once written, spoken, and spiritual, and the need for the Tribe to write policy in Lakota.

  • In Praise of the Youth Fighting DAPL (2016)
    The former Chairman of Standing Rock gives a speech in the Tribal Chambers in praise of the youth who are rising up to defend the water and the future generations against the Dakota Access Pipeline.