Everybody have coffee? It's good for you 'cause it will keep you brown. And I know everybody wants me to be short 'cause we got a lot of good things to eat. Ah, I'm supposed to give some brief remarks here, ah, I want to thank my ah, my ah, younger brother [Steve Emery] for coming down here and singing that ah, Sioux Victory Song. Ah, and if you want to know the words to them ah, you should talk to him. It's something, it goes something like "the Seventh Cavalry came charging, the Seventh Cavalry is crying." And that's what we're here for today, is to bring them back together, and bring them back with us, us Sioux. So I want to thank my brother, I know he's got his family back there, ah, I want to thank you.

Another thing too, you know, ah, Indians use, ah, the moccasin telegraph and sometimes we're kind of late. Ah, I left Vermillion Wednesday and I called back and here, ah, there was a message for me that said my grandma Dora Shoots Off Bruguier called and she wanted to come down here. So I said 'geez, I don't know how what to do.' And ah, so I, you know I had to come, so I came on down here. And this morning I had to get up real early to do some stuff so I left my hotel room and I was doing some stuff and I got back to the office, or back to my room, and I turned on the machine and then they said 'Hey Grandma Dora is at the Greyhound bus station.' So I, 'geez, I don't know what to do!' So boy, I ran over there to the bus station and I ran to there and she wasn't there. So I said, you know, one thing about us Indians wherever we go in this world we know that we're human beings, we'll be alright! So when I come over here she was here! And then the Indians never travel alone, either. She had brought her friend down from Eagle Butte, South Dakota. So I want to really thank my grandma. You know, she gave me my Indian name "Tahunska Tanka" that was her husband's name and it's translated "Big Leggings Bruguier." There is my grandma: Grandma Dora. And she is a deacon in the Episcopal Church and when I got my Ph.D. she put my hood on me so then when she got hers for church she asked me to go up there so I had the honor of doing that for her, too. So I really appreciate that, Grandma! She's got to go back to do Palm Sunday up at Eagle Butte, in Cherry Creek, and all over up there where she works. And I won't tell you her age. Maybe if you'll ask her she'll tell you that. But she does very well and I appreciate that. She gave me that name that was her husband's, Tahunska Tanka, Big Leggins.

Big Leggins Bruguier ah, was working for the highest bidder at the Little Bighorn in 1876. And ah, he could speak about ten to twelve different languages so he was pretty valuable and he could read and he helped a lot of people. That's why I knew Mr. Two Moons because my great-great-great uncle Johnnie "Big Leggins" Bruguier was with Two Moons and helped him come out and maybe saved him from being slaughtered by the cavalry back in those days. It was in the winter and maybe starve to death. So that's Johnnie Bruguier.

The other thing I wanted say, too is that I want to ask the Advisory Committee to come up here. They have a special they ah, they have two specials they want to do. So I want to ask the Advisory Committe to come forward.

Here Mr. Arthur Amiotte takes the microphone.

Throughout the, last, what is it four years, three years, there have been many people that have assisted us very greatly on a particular level which is just, ah, the dynamics of enabling us to get together and to be able to ah, to complete our tasks. And ah, we particularly want to recognize two individuals who are extremely helpful, who gave up themselves and their time overwhelmingly ah, on behalf of this committee and its work. At this time I, on behalf of the committee, I would like to ah, to call Chris Jones up please if he's here? He's working. Okay, Barbara Sutteer, could you come up and please, Barbara, could you come and accept this on Chris's behalf. This is an original limited edition print of my own great grandfather who participated at the Battle of the Little Bighorn at the age of seventeen. Was a colleague and friend of Two Moons and attended the 1926 ah, ah, fiftieth annual reunion and is indeed, ah, appears right here. I want to thank, we want to thank Chris for all the help he's given us.

An additional person ah, that we wish to thank for having made arrangements is Ms. Dawn Carey, please. Would you come forward. Kevin wishes to give you one of his limited edition prints. Linda Stoll. Barbara Sutteer. Thank you very much.

Leonard Bruguier at the microphone

I really wanted to thank the senator too, did he leave? Ah, you know, one of his, ah, one of the people he worked with is in our audience today too, Kimberly Craven. Kimberly, are you still here? Kimberly, would you stand please. And her little daughter is back there too. She was with our original meeting back in 1989 at the Little Bighorn with Dennis Ditmanson and Lorraine Mintzmeir, and all that.

I know that it was easy for the FBI and the CIA, BIA all, of those spies in 1976 before the ah, ah, time of casinos. They could always spot Indian cars because ah, by the brand names on their tires. Their brand is "No hunting, no trespassing!" That's a really old joke, I gotta, I gotta get me another one.

They told me to write a historical speech and I can't think of anyway too, but I really have to ah, ah, it's difficult for me because in my heart Two Moons and Poor Bear are still here. And I have an ego that's really big but I have to subliminate that ego because they spoke the truth in 1989. So I always like to think that I don't speak for them, I interpret the feeling they left with me. So I speak for people and we're people of many colors, we're people of many cultures but we are human beings; we should never forget that. And I speak for a vision, I speak for a dream. One hundred twenty-one years ago our people, the Cheyenne, the Arapahos, and the Siouxs, we were gathering up there at what we call the 'Greasy Grass,' and we were enjoying what 'unci maka,' grandmother earth, she gave us. She gave us that sage, she gave us that sweetgrass, she gave us that cedar and this tobacco and she put that in the air so it perfumed it for us. So when we were there we were living like she wanted us to. And she put us with other nations, too. She put us with the buffalo nation; today we need to remember and we need to help our buffalo relatives. They are our relatives. She gave us the horse, she gave us the dog, and we were there, we were thanking her in those ways we knew how, those ways that we still do; in that sundance, that inipi or sweetlodge, in our prayers and our songs and our music and in our life. We did good! She gave it to us because it was good for us.

One hundred twenty-one years ago the people from the east they came. They came there where we were, they came with the Arikaras, the Crows. And they interrupted what we were doing. And some things that happened there weren't good.

But we're here today, we're here today to help that healing process, to help heal those hurts, to help all, those of you whose relatives were there and maybe got killed, or maybe got hurt. And you never forgot it, it stayed in your families. 121 years, we didn't have anything up there. The warriors went back there and they put a plaque there, and they put it there. And today we're going to put something up there, we're going to honor some people that made their prayers and researched and dreamed with us and put it on paper and sent it to us. They shared with us, so the dream, while it come from us Indians, is a shared dream. And it's appropriate that we mention Mr. Austin Two Moons [Northern Cheyenne], Mr. Enos Poor Bear, Oglala Lakota, for there was two men who passed this dream on, this vision. They are the two men who made the prayers, they are men who took two parts of their lives and put it together. Austin Two Moons speaks PEACE, Mr. Enos Poor Bear said in UNITY we have power. So I want us to remember them, too. We asked the Secretary of Interior to do something that we all overlooked until maybe a week ago. You know, you look at our Advisory Committee, citizens of this country, volunteered their time, gave us their expertise and worked to bring this phase to a close. But if you look on the names there is only one thing of those two men and that's PEACE THROUGH UNITY. So we asked the Secretary and we asked Mr. Cook to make Austin Two Moons and Enos Poor Bear honorary mambers of our committee. But they're not honorary, they're the leaders, they're the spiritual leaders of our committee.

So I am very happy to have everybody here today. It always happens that way when there is something good, when there is something that is blessed, when there is something that comes from the heart, good heart people come. So I want to thank you for that.

I mentioned a phase, another phase that we have to enter into; we have found a design that we are going to put our love, we are going to build it with love and heart and spirit for the next generations to come. One of the people that is going to help us in that next phase, in that fund-raising phase is Mr. John Maddy from the National Park Foundation. They volunteered to help us do this so as he comes forward to this podium and he has his hands out I want you to slap twenty Dollars in there: Mr. Maddy.