Today, we would like to introduce summer volunteer Matthias Schmidt, 37, who came to us from Germany. He will be leaving Eagle Butte this Friday. He shares this with us:
“Take Mitakuye Oyasin, ‘all our relations’ or ‘we are all related,’ an acknowledgment that teaches us that we human beings are among, not above, all living creatures and cannot live well without heeding their lessons. It is a source of wisdom, at once Indigenous and universal, for shaping a resilient world for ourselves and our children. At CRYP, the reclamation of cultural spaces and the revitalization of traditional Lakota methodologies, practices, lifeways and values is done through a whole-body approach that always starts with listening to the children. This makes this project unique to me.”