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This weeks column will be different, dear friends. While I
try to restrict my writing to Chatham get through (i.e., whats happening in Chatham) the last two weeks of mine were not spent
in Chatham, but on the Rosebud Lakota Reservation in South
Dakota.
At this time last year, while I was the Lois road of the
Chatham Courier, I had the incredible opportunity to travel to
Africa and write rough the humanitarian efforts of the African
Reflections Foundation, an NGO that I had come into contact
with during my years in the halls of the New York state legislature. I traveled to Tanzania to write astir(predicate) my observations of
the projects and work being done by ARF. I was move at
how many people back in Chatham enjoyed the stories and
asked when I was passing back.
So this week, when I returned to Chatham and stopped into
the Courier office, my editor asked me if I was going to write
about SD for this weeks column. Why not, I responded.
My intention was to go back to Africa this summer, but for
reasons I wont go into I decided to stay in the country and take
my daughters to a place that we had not been before. Hence,
South Dakota.
through another set of circumstances, I was
invited to attend the annual jab Hill Bear Sun Dance on the
Rosebud. universe a history teacher and interested in the Native
American traditions, I jumped at the opportunity to attend and
observe the immense Sioux piercing ritual.
We started our journey early two Saturdays past and made it
to Chicago 15 hours later. I had already book a hotel, so the
girls and I dumped our stuff off and began our geographic expedition of the
Windy City. We stumbled upon an Argentinean restaurant where
the waiters serve all manner of warmness substances imaginable
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