Speaker: Lakota Healer David Swallow Jr. 

David Swallow, Jr. Is a member of Crazy Horse’s Band of Oglala Lakota. He speaks Lakota as a first language and is a Sun Dance intercessor in Porcupine, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation where he lives. He studied under Frank Fools Crow to become a wicasa wakan (medicine man) and spiritual leader for his Oyate (people). Among other acts of resistance, Mr. Swallow was involved in the occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973 and the Standing Rock Protective Action of 2016 and has spoken to audiences across the USA, Europe and Japan in order to educate the world about Lakota history and culture. 

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