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LAME DEER FIRE UPDATE

And because we like the tourist dollars, too, we have made your sacred Black Hills into one vast Disneyland. Then we found the gold and took this last piece of land, because we were stronger. What does this Mount Rushmore mean to us Indians? It means that these big white faces are telling us, "First we gave you Indians a treaty that you could keep these Black Hills forever, as long as the sun would shine, in exchange for all of the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana.

Crews on the Lame Deer fire continue to secure and mop up containment lines.

LAME DEER FIRE UPDATE

It means not being afraid of cutting up and playing the fool now and then. The update says the Lame Deer Fire is 5,427 acres large and is 85 contained. It means experiencing life in all its phases. Being a good medicine man means being right in the midst of the turmoil, not shielding yourself from it. You have to be God and the devil, both of them. You can't be so stuck up, so inhuman that you want to be pure, your soul wrapped up in a plastic bag, all the time.

Sickness, jail, poverty, getting drunk-I had to experience all that myself.

Unless he can experience both, he is no good as a medicine man. He should be able to sink as low as a bug, or soar as high as an eagle. He should experience and feel all the ups and downs, the despair and joy, the magic and the reality, the courage and the fear, of his people. We really were in a bad way before the white men came, and I don't know how we managed to get along without these basic things which, we are told, are absolutely necessary to make a civilized society. We had no written law, no attorneys or politicians, therefore we couldn't cheat. We had no money, and therefore a man's worth couldn't be measured by it. We wanted to have things only in order to give them away.

We were too uncivilized to set much value on personal belongings. If a man was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket, someone gave him these things. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves.

Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails.

Quotes Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions (1972) Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions, Simon and Schuster, 1994. John Fire Lame Deer Lame Deer) was a Lakota holy man, member of the Heyoka society,citation needed grandson of the Miniconjou head man Lame Deer. This article about a religious leader is a stub. John Fire Lame Deer (in Lakota Tȟáȟča Hušté Ma– December 14, 1976) was a Lakota holy man.