“You have to be patient,” said Russell Eagle Bear, an elder and member of the Sioux Blackpipe community council that is involved in negotiations from start to finish.
“I know there are thousands of other children somewhere. At some point, we’ll find them all, “he said, speaking from the driver’s seat of his blue Buick parked in front of the tribal office.
“We will experience it, whether it is mine or the next generation.
Over the years, bureaucracy has weighed heavily on teenagers.
“I remember saying, ‘This is the year we’re going to take them home. And then it was a year, another year, another year. And then COVID hit, “said Horse Looking, sitting on a brown couch in Tokala Inaginho’s office.
“I had a feeling he would never come.”
But the call finally came last spring.
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