Some of you are friends from the past. Some of you may well be people who have held grievances with me, from the past.
Some of you are people I never even thought much about, until I realized that you had been treated poorly.
Some of you are people I judged far too indiscriminately.
And some of you are people I never bothered to get to know.
I am honored here to make a fresh start.
Mitakuye Oyasin
(all my relations)
I also thank all of you who have ever been kind to me when I was feeling down. Wopila tanka.
Cante wasteya nape ciyuzapelo (it is with a good heart that I take your hand)
With thanks to Larry Monterey for the Lakota translations.
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