We Visit the Lakota Indians of S.Dakota 

I'm native American Indian and proud

we are not poor, we have a rich history and traditions

My grandmother was Lakota and l feel very proud of that as l should !

Pine ridge is the poorest reservation in SD. Some of my family is from pine ridge, but most of my family is from Lower Brule reservation. Havent seen it in a long time, crazy to see it hasnt changed at all. But proud to be native

Hello I'm a navajo american indian from Flagstaff Arizona, what a wonderful video my brother, it is so awesome too see people visiting the native reservation and sharing the Good News, what a beautiful land you visited, some day I will make it out there and visit the Sioux Nation, may God bless you, your health, your channel, your family, your job, your vehicles, your pets, your home, your land, and above all your bloodline In The Mighty Name Of Jesus Christ, may The Word Of God be a light unto your path, may no form of satanic evil befall you and your family, what you did has a great reward, for His Word shall not return void wherever He sends it, thank you brother me and my kids will keep you in our prayers and check out our little family Bible studies that we uploaded and share with some natives you know, and it is uploaded too encourage anyone stay positive stay safe stay blessed 🌬️📖🙏❤️🗡️✝️🔥🇺🇸🌎

Thank you for this video and the hope that you gave to those lovely people. May God bless you and keep you. Live for ever.

Oglala Lakota here and very proud of it wopila tanka tunkasila wakan tanka lakota oyate wopila mielo aho Hecietu Mitakuye Oyasin.

Imagine if your government actually keep the treaties they drafted.

Ayee Oglala lakota rep here! If you ever come down again I got some really beautiful places to show you!

The spiritual Lakota believe in the Creator's way. The respect and love nature. My friend that lives there is a single father and he takes really good care of his family.

It’s a similar situation in Australia where the native inhabitants were dispossessed, and not included in the restructuring of the country’s economy.

The reason my people are in this shape is the federal government what a shame.

Very sad to hear about it, and see people suffering in poverty. It breaks my heart. Thank you for going out of your way to help and for spreading the good news about Yahshua! I had a friend years ago who would put on music shows and raise money for the Hopi tribe. She helped them build a new medical clinic on the res. And a birthing center. She also brought them food and clothes. Amazing things can happen when people show compassion on each other. God bless you!

One of my favorite actors Tokala Black Elk is from the Pine Ridge Reservation. He’s such a beautiful talented man.

Had a hard time with this video. You did not present both sides as stated. You came in quoting scriptures and pressing religious overtones then present them as lost people that need Jesus to save them. The great Christian white men came in and encroached their lands and way of life and have the nerve to call themselves Christian. Real Christ like. The last thing they need is to have outside beliefs forced upon them. Ever wonder what you would thing if the shoe was on the other foot? Did you even attempt to understand their ways and beliefs. Listen to them? Maybe those children are happy because they do not have so much of the commercial items you tend to give your children.

💓 my Tioespaye wish I could take all my Tioespaye and help my tunkasilas and unci ate ina leski very proud of them aho mitakuye oyasin.

The mindset says everything. "In the middle of nowhere..." Nah, it's in the middle of everything. When one has no roots, one sees not the branches.

My rez is by no means poor but, by judging by the way some of those who live here you'd think they had no options. Drugs is a major issue that grips a lot of us. Some of those houses you see that are boarded up were previously owned by scumbags who don't give a crap. I'd wager that most of us are well to do and often times live outside the rez or own have some great lives. Thanks for keeping an open mind and seeing what it's really like.

I am not a first people, but I have always had strong convictions for the people. It makes me sad the way the people are treated. I stand with you, right back to Black Elk. Amen, great Spirit Blessed.

I knit and sew winter things for Pine Ridge and have for many years. It is heart breaking what had happened to this beautiful people. 💔😢. My native ancestors were Cherokee and were removed to Oklahoma but that could so easily have been my family out there.

You should mention when you are showing The Bad Lands that it is sacred to the Natives.

i give what i can from my disability check each month i love you all and pray all day and night for you !

Indians are from INDIA...!!! We are Native People...!!!! Indian is a Foreign name given to Native People by a Foreign People..!!! NATIVE INDEPENDENCE...!!!

The historical footprint of the "lord Jesus" is largely responsible for the conditions they experience. Settlers came, destroyed their way of life and forced their European religious and social ideals on these people. If they we're allowed to continue in their rich spiritual and social traditions, they would not be subjected to the life they've been forced into

I'm a descendant of an indigenous tribe from Cuba. The Christopher Columbus made sure to get rid of them but the Guanahaybay people had an idea how to keep their people alive and that was having interracial relationships. I'm also half white , my dad is Cuban. Sad most people don't know about my tribe😢 but they live threw me👍

These are proud people, not being caught up in our ways. But still many are Not as fortunate to have Just a little better than the necessities.

I am trying to figure out who I need to be put in touch with about making a donation. My family had some land in the mid - southern part of the state, Clark County. I have inherited part of this, along with 3 other family members, and the consensus is to sell the land. I want to donate money from my part of the sales to Native Americans of the region, descendents of the people who my people stole the land from originally. Whoever and whatever is most in need of financial help. If anyone can advise me how to go about doing this, I'd appreciate it very much.

Just came upon this. Watching and listening, from Iowa..

The problems are hugh and based on your worldview it is easy to see how your response to something that seems insurmountable is to go to the fall back position of saying only Jesus can solve this. I appreciate your time and effort to try to be helpful, but this impulse to say Jesus can take care of it ultimately not helpful and can be harmful in a way. Forcing the Indians to Christian boarding schools, tearing them away from their families and culture and spiritual practices is one of the main reasons for these problems. To introduce the solution as more of what initially contributed greatly to the problem is short sided and potentially destructive. I feel your interest to help is genuine and so I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you are just not using this opportunistically as a situation to spread your beliefs. My strong suggestion is to go and try to be helpful. Go as human beings and make a difference. Leave any talk (or songs) of Christianity out of it. If being a good person for you is partly because you are Christian, then use your Christianity as a personal driver, One that drives and motivates you to do good. But please leave it out of your interactions with the Lakota in an overt way. You are inadvertently likely contributing to the problem and potentially muddying the waters and creating a psychological conflict / dilemma for them and making it less likely that they will be able to allow your goodness to really have a lasting effect for them. Being overtly "Christian" may seem the thing to you from your perspective, but think of it from their perspective, as a people damaged historically from the white man's Christianity. This psychological - cultural conflict will ultimately reduce your effectiveness in trying to make an impact. . With older Children and adults I can see a potential conversation about how Christianity has harmed their culture, and your attitude being one of conciliation and apology. This could have a real impact. I believe This of course would preclude trying to continue proselytizing and being more interested in their world view and spiritual traditions and not so much sharing your own. If someone became interested in Christianity as a byproduct of your goodness and conciliatory stance, then they would be more likely to be able to integrate into themselves more fully with less existential conflict pulling them one way and the other . I wish you all the best in what you do and offer these suggestion in the spirit of trying to be helpful. **(After writing this and reading the comments, I see you have experience making violins). I am a violinmaker (Peter Lynch Violins) and the president of the Michigan Violinmakers Association. All the best with your work :)

Any Sioux Nation family out there on Sioux land that will allow me too camp on your land as I visit your beautiful land, yea I want too visit you brother and sisters, may God bless you all In The Mighty Name Of Jesus Christ 🌬️📖🙏❤️🗡️✝️🔥🇺🇸🌎

We are not indians. We are Indigenous to this land.

HELP them instead of just talking about it!!!

Thank you for caring. The prayers are appreciated. It is hard to save a conquered ppl. 😢 I'm a Creek American from Oklahoma, and the government treats convicted felons better than my brothers and sisters.

This reminds me of my hometown in southeast Ohio. Once the coal mines closed, the place became a shell of what it used to be.

Remember what Crazy Horse said: "“Upon suffering beyond suffering; the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of seven generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again. In that day there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things, and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom. I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am in that place within me, we shall be as one.” The was Crazy Horses prophecy 4 days before they assassinated him.

Thank you

I hope you bought resources and not just bibles. I’m a Christ follower and I wouldn’t dare come there empty handed!!!!!!!!

Sucks what Christians have done to the American Natives even till this day they haven't done shit to fix anything! I wish i had the power to change things , the only power i have is my freedom to speak about these crimes!

❤I’m impress. Oh my lord It’s city in west Africa. Name is LAKOTA. I will like to meet with your guys one day. Stay bless. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

What does your shirt say? Something about Indian or Indians?

Kyle S.D. would be the place to visit. I have alot of family there, a lot...😃👍👍🤗

Is there any hope for economic development?

They “ we “ don’t need anything fancy all we ask for is government assistance help us natives out with a Well and some solar power that alone will make a big difference

Awweee look at all the children!💖💖💖

I like any playground. Actually the more messed up the more I want to explore. I am weird. I think that is why I like old abandoned houses.

My dad's side is Native and he grew up in Pine Ridge. My grandmother had moved back to the Rez for a while and we got to visit her years ago before she passed. You travelled super far to get there for sure!! Lol I really want to go back.

As long as my concerned, Lakota is not part of USA country. Both are separated officially since 1990's. Maybe somebody here could give confirmation to me.

Diné here. Thank you for making a video about these tribal people. I think of them everytime Washington DC says anything about the indigenous people of America. Washington Deceit

Thank u for the tour!

Thanks Jon I am very proud of it Cherokee and Creek Choctaw proud part of the four C's which split apart during the trail of tears

I thought they were doing better. Very sad to see. Such a proud nation. Im sad to see this. Greetings from Denmark

hello enjoy your tutorial violin building / but what you are saying the same thing that started 500 years ago that put them were they are today/ maybe start there healing

Thank you for taking time to share your story of the Lakota Tribe of South Dakota and our culture

First 2 mins..Right Out the Bull Pen.. I heard 2 statements that Rubbed me the Wrong way. Well maybe? 3. My opinion is: Opened up w a picture of "Helpless Folk." #2..Ended with Help these "POOR". WHO he callin' Poor?!?. ..i'll be back

A bundle of mixed messages to this video begins to tell a story of the serious crimes committed by arrogant, psychopathic, colonialists and religious zealots, who due to their own guilt feel a need to subdue, even exterminate others, especially the indigenous peoples. And now it seems that the Lakota, amongst other tribes, still retain a semblance of their former nobility and glory, but this has been soured by the effects of the aforementioned colonial invasion, which decimated their ability to live according to the ways of the Great Spirit, who proffered an abundance of game and other fruits for the sustenance of this, and many other indigenous tribes. Now the Darkness has greatly reduced these types and modes of living, through the domination of corporate companies, building developers, farmers, and government planners, who have concretised the earth, so that large vistas of natural wildlife have been replaced by swathes of shopping malls and cities, where squalor and poverty simply takes a slightly different form, from those with problems on the res. It is easier said than done to have hope, but from my own experience, it can only be born from a conviction in the Laws of Creation, through an intuitive sensing of and longing for beauty and truth, and a deep desire to serve the people and the Creator, and this universal desire expresses itself in many ways. For some the Great Spirit, or Great Mystery proffered this hope and purpose in life, whilst for others Jesus brought the Word, then there were forerunners of Truth in most nations, who attempted to keep alive in people the longing for the one true God, however, you name Him. The inconsistencies of these various belief systems, and the sty called the earth, only concurs and confirms to me that man has not yet sufficiently opened his spirit to the promptings of the Light, for once he does, he will develop a conviction in his thoughts and actions, for they will be aligned to the Will of the Almighty, and lead to reliable human beings, who share the same value systems and spiritual principles, which will naturally lead to trust, peace and respect for all creatures. Rarely, has so much damage been done to a people though, as occurred when the Western Christians were sent to the US, and S America, to purge the souls of these apparently unclean, heathen peoples, whilst removing their land, dignity and way of life. They thereby self-righteously divorced these people from their connection to the Almighty, and conviction in their spiritual disciplines and practices. Spiritual murder and genocide on this level will take a lot to redeem for those who inflicted these atrocities, but let's not forget, man is spirit, and needs more than one life to develop and for there to be justice in life, for the mercy of God is everywhere, thus, some of the natives are probably the former white religious zealots, and soldiers, who persecuted and attempted to exterminate these people. For so as a man sows, so he shall reap. Sadly, a Roman emperor removed the mention of reincarnation, due to his guilt, and so he managed to buy off the clergy at the Treaty of Constantinople, showing how difficult it is for anyone with a spiritual longing, like the Lakota, to believe in something based upon fraudulence and falsehood, rather than truth, and man Christians devoutly do not believe in reincarnation. For those who have lived through this genocide, what further proof is needed of the falsehood of many religious zealots??? None!!! I myself lived through the last of the 'glory' days, and died at the hands of traitors, but know now that the real enemy is not the white man, but his ways, which are oft the ways of the Darkness, that never stops in its attempts to drag people towards the abyss and eternal disintegration. Many events are coming now that have been forewarned of in bygone days, when people's wrong courses will become apparent, so some, at the last moment, may recognise the Truth of the Great Spirit, or Almighty, and begin to lead a truly God-willed existence, which ironically, many of the natives were already doing before the entrance of the whites. No, they did not have steel, plastic and other mod cons, but if man thinks this qualifies him as a superior being, as some seem to, then, he is in for a very big shock, and very, very soon. Blessings to the Lakota, and may the path of the spirit reveal itself to all, before it's too late, for it is the doom of men that they forget it !!! And thanks for the video!

It's pretty sad that they live the way that they do. I don't really think that they want to live that way. They would go back to wandering and being nomadic, if they could. They aren't allowed to keep their way of life. That is what makes me sad.

You deserve much much more

Thank you for being there for my people, even if it was just a few days. They will always remember that. You were their light.❤ Side note: Natives are not Indians. We're not from India.

I'm a native American Indian

Lakota Omaha and Navajo

I've seen poverty in my lifetime but nothing as serious as this. 😞

u mean native ameicans of south dakota im native were not indians thos indians are from india

The Oglala were forced to live in the middle of nowhere. Governmental control of all indigenous Indian tribes have taken place all over this nation. In the past, a total five hundred different tribes existed in America. Much have been written about indigenous peoples experiences and their rights for existence. This type of situation occurs in all countries at some point in human history. All men are made in the image of God but love for your neighbor is difficult to maintain.

I came on this page to learn about different tribe cultures and these people have more hatred than any politician ive ever heard speak. I am shocked! I will never stare at another. 😳

Where did this guy from? Haha I seen poor flakes all over, the nerve of this guy…

I like the way you think I’m Christian too ❤️

That's so much did touch my heart

STIYU! HOKA HEY!

Im also a Native South American Indian from the mighty Inca Empire mixed with German!, i know i know the white blood ruined everything great about my native indian blood lol.

It’s Native American not Indian, not from India

respect from Rome, Italy. Ciaoooo

I would stand out in the rain!😄

Generational trauma does exist

I know money is not everything and there was a broken treaty over what we call Mount Rushmore and what they called the six grandfathers sky the Earth north south east and west. So I think it's really sad what happened has happened you can't change that. Preme Court of the United States determines that it was a broken treaty that land was taken at what is now known as Mount Rushmore. And apparently had nothing to do with the sculpture but everything to do with the gold that was discovered. The akota Indians have been I warded billions of dollars which sits in a trust. ... likely enough to reimburse for all the gold that was mined and sold not what they want I wish they just bury the hatchet and carry on what's done is done can't undo what's done. I enjoy looking at it photos of the original Mountain and I see faces in it you can still see faces in it

Looks like government subsidized housing. My friend's mother lives in a home just like the homes depicted in the video...minus the boarded up windows. It seems nice a quiet there and, at least, the kids are outside, socializing, and playing unlike the majority of the kids in my neighborhood who would prefer to play videogames inside or be buried into their cellphones like little, braindead, zombies.

Should not be trying to sell your religion to these people. It's not what they need. This is terrible.

Thank you For sharing the video God Bless all the people out there and thank you guys for spreading God word .🙏🙏🙏

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Thank you for being so understanding to the situation in pine ridge.. I wish there was a answer..

The camp in USA and çanada are cell warcamp ok not rez

Why do people drive to the reservation just to get a look-see? Don't you have anything better to do? It's because of the corruption by people who take all of the Treaty Provisions that shouldn't. If people have a smidge of Indian blood, they want Treaty Provisions.

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Can they leave their reservation and live normal.life?

The Crust.

They arent poor. They dont need your pity go do your history about how your founding fathers mistreated the first peoples. Ugh.

Etwas einseitige Ernährung

I would love to be your neabor with you and just be friends and get along with 1 another

Suicide is so sad. I wonder if a smile and a wave could change their thought process like my sister said. She said you never know though.

Ron so you should be.proud no matter

I speak fluent Lakota. Navajo and early Russian your people will die off unfortunately

People are man's worst enemy

31 dislikes come from the people who are as ignorant as the government who placed them there to vanish.

Lack of communication.... period 😉

You guys are just going off about how they shouldn't be coming to the rez and "selling" there religion. Just be happy that they came and played with the kids. Maybe they needed that attention. They live in poverty and probably being bored all day. Just be happy that they came to us. Some people are just rude sometimes smh.

Kinda reminds me of what happens to people that turn there back on The living God. Happen many times to the Jewish.

🙏 rs

Why is there not one adult who would tidy up the children's play area? 6:31 Weeds knee and hip-high. That small detail tells you a great deal.

It’s awful the. Way native Indians have to live .they should take liquid out of the reservations native Indians can’t drink hard liquid. .women should go to city look for. Work save money move to the city .♥️💙🙏

Thanks for doing this, Jon. The Lord will surely multiply the loaves you brought. I will pray for these people whom the Lord loves. I'm so grateful that you played the fiddle for them! Don't underestimate the powerful effect that can have!

An amazing look into a situation that tears my heart apart. Thank you Jon, for all you do!