Dave Swallow, Jr. • Lakota Elder • South Dakota, United States

Dave Swallow, Jr. Lakota Elder, South Dakota, United States


Dave Swallow, Jr.
Lakota Elder, South Dakota, United States

Dave Swallow, Jr.

Lakota Elder, South Dakota, United States

My name is Dave Swallow Jr. That’s a Christian name. And my Lakota name is Wowitan Uha Mani, Walks With Pride. I’m a Lakota. And althrough the Bureau of Indian Affairs and to all the way to Washington, the War Department into the White House, I’m known as U22981. That’s me. And I live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation [South Dakota]. I was born and raised there. Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is United States Prisoner of War Camp Number 344. That’s where I was born and raised.

And I had a woihanble [vision] a long time ago when I was young. A vision was shown to me when I was young. And I completed the quest seven years. And after that, I have visited many, many different cultures; many, many different people throughout the world; not only here in the United States, but throughout the world. I pray with many, many different color of people.

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