Every year, we have a winter stock show here in Rapid City. For those of you who live on the coasts, a stock show is where folks who raise cattle, horses, sheep and like that come to auction their best animals. It’s also where folks can see what’s new in the livestock industry. There are piles and piles of folks that attend. I’m told that Rapid City’s show is 2nd only to the Denver National. I’m going to do a couple of pieces from the stock show. I think I need to do one on all the paraphernalia that cowboys and cowgirls just can’t live without. Cowboy UP!
As we were leaving a play the other night, we hear a strange sound, and couldn’t figure out where it was coming from. Was it the wind – blowing through this building – or something more…
Last week, I went down to Red Cloud Indian School to watch the Red Cloud Crusaders play the Little Wound Mustangs. For those of you who don’t live on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Red Cloud was the guy who defeated the United States Cavalry back in 1868, and later signed a treaty. Little Wound was another Lakota warrior that fought at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, where the Lakotas kicked Custer’s butt.
But that’s old news. Last Thursday, it was a different battle. On the rez, B-ball is a very big deal. Most everybody loves a great game, and I was pretty sure that Red Cloud was going to win, but I had to see this kid from Little Wound play – Brice Hornbeck. I wasn’t disappointed.
This is a video I did for a very good organization here in Rapid City – SANI-T – the Society for the Advancement of Native Interests Today. Since then I’ve been reading Mohammad Yunus’s book – Creating a World Without Poverty – Social Business and the Future of Capitalism. It’s a wonderful book, and points to a whole new direction from that of this video. But I still like this piece. It shows that poverty is not really something that anybody chooses consciously. It’s 10 minutes long, so you might want to get your slippers on before you watch it.
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