Burt Lake County Park

“It all starts in the family, the idea of higher education . . .”

… Our mother was actually the dominant influence. She always liked to read and help others. When she was gone, at her funeral some lady came over and said, ‘Your mother would help us with our homework.’ Her value of education was strong. When we were growing up, she would say, ‘Are you going to be a Bruin or a Trojan?’ Who would ever think we could afford to do something like that, unless you have the dream?”

~Ernest Siva, in Project 562 by Matika Wilbur

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This place is home to indigenous speakers of the Yankton, Dakȟóta (Western Dakota), Dakhóta (Eastern Dakota), and Lakȟótiyapi (Lakota) languages. (Crowdsourced info compiled by Native-Land.ca. Please visit the nations’ websites to learn more.) We support indigenous land rights and the Land Back movement.

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