Flandrau State Park

“We have a lot of health problems . . .”

… diabetes, obesity, like most Native or Indigenous or aboriginal populations, or just human populations right now. Educating and having a positive option is the way we’re gonna get out of it; let’s just look into the past and see how we were so healthy before and create opportunities for young people to lead us back into this way of being well and healthy. Unless you are okay with the current state of a really unhealthy society — mental and physical health problems and I guess a vacancy in spirit — then you really have to do something now, or you’re part of the problem. Our land is really unhealthy, and as Hawaiians, you have kuleana. I got into it because that’s our kuleana, an inescapable obligation to take care of the land, and the land takes care of you.”

~Joshua Dean Iokua Ikaikaloa Mori, in Project 562 by Matika Wilbur

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This place is home to indigenous speakers of the 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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