Ernie Lapointe
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108 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Ernie Lapointe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so finally, eventually, one of the Translators came up and he told my grandfather, he said, that big banner that's just over a gate. But Cody wrote and said, come see Sillingville, killer of Custer. And they would spit at him and yell at him. So he started to realize that this wasn't really like the Albert Allen show, you know, that people showed respect to him.
It was just using him as a prop to make money. People were paying money to come see him. And they booed him and all kinds of stuff. But as he went along, they went further east and they got to the east coast. And they were at the city, what they call the city of Brotherly Love, which is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
And they were there and people of Philadelphia came and wanted to show him the city of Brotherly Love. So him and his group, they took him out into the streets. And they were walking down the streets. And the minute they walked down the street, all these little white kids come out. They were dirty-faced, raggedy clothing, hungry. And they were begging for food. My grandfather was shocked.
He says, wow. Lakota, we call our children Wakansha, which is short for Wakant Ichaka. Something sacred is growing. It never goes hungry, cold, hungry. Es ist in einem Artikel im Journalismus. Ein Freund von mir hat gefragt, ob das wirklich passiert ist. Ich sagte, unsere alte Geschichte erzählt uns das. Er sah es und ging in die Archive der Philadelphia Newspaper.
Er fand dieses kleine Artikel in der Philadelphia Newspaper, das hatte ihn da, was er machte. Er hatte Geld und Geld für die heimischen Kinder. Ja. Ja. Ja. So he is returned to Standing Rock. And you mentioned a minute ago that his death was precipitated by the native people there. Can you tell us about that and about the vision that he has of this?
Right after he came back from the Cody thing, the people were getting kind of, I guess, at the end of their rope. They were losing hope. And these two guys, Chickenberry and Shortbow, were two native guys. And they heard about this guy who sent out word to all nations, all people in the world, I mean the United States. His name was Waboka. He was a Paiute Indian in Nevada.
He had a message, he had a vision. So they went to see what this was about. Even all religions showed up, different Christian religions, the Mormons came and everybody. So they went to see this guy. He was a Paiute Indian, he was dressed in American clothes and he had this big black top hat. And it was a beaver felt top hat. And he took it off and he showed it.
Die Leute, die da waren, die in diesem Hat, er sagte, er sah in dort und er sah, wie die Zukunft der Welt war und die Leute und das Land hier, dass alle Menschen miteinander zusammengehen, dass sie in Harmonie mit einem anderen leben, in diesem Hat. Und das war, was er ihm teilen wollte. He says, you have to do this. Wow. Everybody sat there and listened to this.
And, you know, most of these guys didn't really, especially the non-native ones, didn't really believe this. That you could look inside of a hat and see this, right? So he shared with them what they should do and all that. Wow, these two guys kicking back shoreboat on their way back. See, they're on horses, you know, and, you know, they had a camp.
So they're coming back and they conjured up this story. See, their story was that if They had to make certain items. A ghost shirt. This ghost shirt had certain designs on it. And this idea was sprung from the Mormons. The Mormons wore underwear. It's supposed to protect them. You know, the shirt and underwear.
You know, that certain ways that it's supposed to help them understand the creation or something. I don't know what it's all about. But they took that idea and incorporated it into the ghost dad shirt. And then they created these songs coming back. Und bei der Zeit, als sie die Wooden River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, oder in Arapaho, bekommen haben, hatten sie es auf dem Weg.
Denn es hat ihnen gedauert, um hier von Nevada zurückzukommen. Und sie haben ihnen gesagt, das ist, was sie gesehen haben. Also es ist nicht wie die Sonnen-Dance, sondern es ist eine Geister-Dance. Weißt du, was sie die Geister-Dance nennen. Es ist nicht eine Lakota oder eine Native-Zeremonie. Es sind zwei Jungs, die das gemacht haben. Und diese Jungs tanzen auf diesem Baum.
He couldn't understand what the heck they were doing. Well, he didn't really approve of it, but he couldn't say no to them because they're hanging on by the end of the rope. They didn't know what to do with themselves because they killed off the buffalo. They took away all the ways to survive as humans. So he allowed them to do it.
It started getting out of hand because people were dancing on this tree and they followed, they died. And he said, we got to do something about this. It was 1890. As he's walking along there, there's a little brook there. He stopped by the little brook and all of a sudden this meadowlark came along. And it's a meadowlark, it's a bird, the yellow chest.
And as I was next to him there by the little brook there, he started drinking some of the water. And he looked at him and he looked at my grandfather and said, in Lakota, he said, Lakota nikte piktelo. He said, Lakota nikte piktelo. Er hat gesagt, die Lakota-Leute werden dich töten. Und er hat es zweimal gesagt. Und er hat gesagt, er wollte herausfinden, warum sie mich töten wollen.
Weil ich sie gesorgt habe, sie getötet habe, sie geschützt habe. Und ich versuche immer mein Bestes, um das zu tun. Also hat er immer versucht, sein Bestes zu tun. Und es war... Und dann hat er einen Konsul mit seiner Gruppe von Leuten da, die ihnen sagen, wir müssen etwas tun, weil diese Leute tanzen, auch in der Winterzeit, in der Kälte.
Und er hat gesagt, naja, du weißt, dieses Ding ist in der Pahenrage-Agenzie, im Süden, in Ugalalas. Also hat er gesagt, naja, ich gehe runter und habe einen Konsul mit Red Cloud. Und er hat ihn untergebracht und gefragt, wie können wir zusammenkommen und stoppen dieses Ghost-Tanzen. Die Leute sterben einfach von all dem.
Well, all this time before when he was doing this, he told meetings he had his nephew there. And one of his nephews, his name was One Bull. And One Bull was told by McLaughlin that he would give him so much gifts and stuff if he would tell him what to say in his council meetings. So east of the camp. There was a little place called Little Eagle. And there was a schoolhouse.
The school teacher had a telegraph. So one boy would go over there every night after every council meeting and tell this school teacher who spoke Lakota. So he would tell him what this is. So he telegraphed McLaughlin and told him what the plans that they were doing. And Sidney will start to realize, start to figure out, you know, this guy here is knowing everything I'm doing.
How is he doing this, right? Well, he had a meeting. He said he was going to have a meeting. And McLaughlin didn't want Sitting Bull to leave the Standing Rock area. I kept him pretty much corralled with no fans. And he wanted to go have a meeting with Kyle, with the Red Cloud. So one boy went over to the schoolhouse and the guy wasn't there.
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